Taiwan’s men’s recurve archery team yesterday won bronze at the Archery Asia Cup in Singapore after defeating Bangladesh 5-3 in the third-place playoff.
The team, comprising Yang Kai-han, Lin Yu-yang and Liu Tai-yen, have an average age of 19.
Coach Kuo Chen-wei said that the Taiwanese team’s performance was decent overall, although the athletes “still have room to improve.”
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The second leg of the Archery Asia Cup began on Sunday and ends tomorrow.
Taiwan were seeded second in the qualification round, behind India.
The team received a first-round bye and advanced directly to the quarter-finals, where they defeated Malaysia 5-1 to reach the final four.
Taiwan lost 6-2 in the semi-finals against Japan, who were to face India in the final.
In the bronze-medal match, Taiwan’s archers maintained their composure despite a tie during the match and sealed victory in the fourth set with three 10-point arrows.
The team did not perform as well as Japan, especially in hitting 10s, but he was “satisfied with how things went overall,” Kuo said.
In the qualifying round for the individual recurve event, Taiwanese Chen Pin-an, a first-year high-school student, placed 22nd.
Chen advanced to the semi-finals in the elimination round, but lost.
He is to play a Japanese archer for third place tomorrow.
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