The Indian men’s recurve archery team signed off with a silver medal after going down 1-5 to defending champions Korea in a roller-coaster summit clash at the Asian Games.
The troika of Dhiraj Bommadevara, Yashdeep Bhoge and Neeraj Chauhan started strongly after an early fumble by Korea but could not hold onto the advantage as they went down 56-56, 50-57, 54-56.
The first set, in which the Indians had the edge after Korea started with an 8, was tied.
The Korean team of Lee Woo-seok, Kim Je-deok and Kim Woo-jin then took the second set after striking 10s with their first three arrows. The Indians sprayed their shots all over the target board, failing to fetch a single 10 in the second set.
The last set slipped out of India’s grasp decisively after Neeraj’s 7 from the fourth arrow.
– PTI
