NEW DELHI: The Indian archers faced formidable challenges from the dominant Korean and Chinese teams, succumbing to pressure in all six summit clashes in the Asia Cup Stage 3 campaign held in Singapore.
Consequently, India secured the fifth position in the medal standings, failing to claim a single gold medal. However, the Indian team managed to accumulate a total of seven medals, comprising six silver medals and one bronze.
The archery powerhouse, Korea, exhibited its supremacy by securing four gold medals, along with one silver and two bronze medals, leading the medal standings. China followed closely in second place, earning four gold medals and three bronze medals.

India began the day going down to Korea by two points (232-234) in the compound women’s team final.
From a four-point deficit in the first end, the trio of Sakshi Chaudhary, Pragati and Deepshikha bounced back to make it 175-176.
But in the final end, one of the Indians shot an wayward 8 to slip further as the Korean team sealed the issue.
The compound men’s team followed suit as they lost out from being 59-all to go down 235-238.
Korea proved to India’s nemesis in the recurve women’s team final as well as the trio of Ridhi Phor, Ruma Biswas and Aditi Jaiswal lost out 3-5.
In the men’s recurve final, India lost to China 1-5.
Parth Salunkhe conceded his men’s recurve gold medal match to Qi Xiangshuo of China 2-6.
Indian woman compound archer Ruma Biswas went down to AN Qizuan of China 2-6.
Pragati won a bronze medal for India defeating her teammate Deepshikha 147-146 in the compound women’s individual third place playoff.
(With PTI Inputs)