Taiwan's men's recurve archery team today won bronze at the Archery Asia Cup in Singapore, defeating Bangladesh 5-3 in the third-place playoff.
The team was composed of Yang Kai-han (楊凱涵), 20, Lin Yu-yang (林育暘), 17, and Liu Tai-yen (劉泰言), 20.
Their performance was decent overall, but the athletes "still have room to improve," coach Kuo Chen-wei (郭振維) said.
Photo courtesy of the Chinese Taipei Archery Association via CNA
The second leg of the Archery Asia Cup began on Sunday last week and runs through Friday, the World Archery Web site says.
Taiwan was 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 2-6 to Japan in the semi-finals and failed to advance to the gold-medal match. Japan is set 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.
Kuo said that the team did not perform as well as Japan, especially in hitting 10s, but he was "satisfied with how things went overall."
Meanwhile, 15-year-old Taiwanese archer Chen Pin-an (陳品安) ranked 22nd in the individual recurve qualifying round.
Chen advanced to the semi-finals in the elimination round, but lost, and is to face off against Japanese archer Yui Urata in the bronze-medal match on Friday.
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