Kolkata, September 3, 2009:
Indian archery received another jolt when its recurve women failed to qualify for the team championship of the 45th World archery championship at Ulsan (South Korea) on Thursday.
According to information reached here, the three Indian entries, Rimil Buriuly, Dola Banerjee and Pratima Boro, failed to withstand the big stage pressure and finished at 25th, 41st and 71st places respectively in the individual ranking. Rimil scored 1312 points over four distances – 70m, 60, 50 and 30m. Dola scored 1299 and Pratima managed 1257 points. The trio’s total of 3868 points gave India only 18th place in the qualifying round. Only top 16 teams make it the championship round.
World champion Korea occupied all the top three positions through Ye Ji Kwak (1364), Ok-Hee Yun (1363) and Hyun-Jung Joo (1357) and as a team Korea stood first with 4084 points. China followed second with 3980 and Chinese Taipei was third with 3978.
Defending champion Natalia Valeeva of Italy ended 19th with 1319.
Source: Indian Archery Association press release
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