Kolkata: The Indian men's recurve team of Jayanta Talukdar, Rahul Banerjee and Mangal Singh Champia finished third in the qualification round of the Archery World Cup's stage IV which began at Shanghai, China.
Talukdar had the best individual placing at 10th with 1324 points as the trio gave India a total of 3941 points which placed the country third overall behind Korea (4044) and France (3953).
By virtue of the third place, India's first round opponent in the team event will be Ukraine which finished 14th overall.
Rahul Banerjee finished 18th with a total of 1313 and Champia was placed 24th with 1304 points.
Oh Jin Hyek of Korea topped the individual qualifier with 1366 points. Lee Chang Hwan, also of Korea, was second with 1351 and Chen Wenyuan of China was third with 1338.
Talukdar, who is all set to qualify for the four-man World Cup finals at Copenhagen in Denmark on September 26, had qualified to the meet proper by finishing 12th at Santo Domingo, second at Porec and sixth at Antalya in the previous three meets.
Banerjee had ended first, seventh and third respectively while Champia had stood second, sixth and 19th in the previous three tournaments' qualifiers.
Bureau Report
First Published: Wednesday, August 05, 2009, 20:32