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Korea take silver in men's team compact archery contest

Published: 05 Oct. 2023, 19:04 Updated: 02 Jan. 2024, 15:10

PAIK JI-HWAN
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Korean archer Kim Jong-ho, right, competes in the compound men's team gold medal match against India at Fuyang Yinhu Sports Centre Final Field in Hangzhou, China on Thursday. [YONHAP]

Korea took silver in the men's team compact archery competition on Thursday, losing to India in the gold medal game but winning the country’s fourth medal in the sport at the Asiad.

Korean archers take bronze in women's compound

Korea’s Joo Jae-hoon, Yang Jae-woon and Kim Jong-ho scored 230 points across four ends at Fuyang Yinhu Sports Centre Final Field in Hangzhou, China, falling short of the 235 points scored by Deotale Ojas Pravin, Verma Abhishek and Jawkar Prathamesh Samadhan of India.

The silver and was the second medal of the day in archery after the women’s team secured bronze in the compound team bronze medal match earlier.

The silver also raised Korea’s medal count in archery at this year’s Asiad to four, having secured two other medals — gold from the recurve mixed team and silver from the compound mixed team — so far in the competition.

Korea has been an archery powerhouse for decades, dominating both the Asian Games and Olympics since the 1980s. At the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics, where only recurve events were held, Korea won four of the five available gold medals.

The Asian Games includes compound archery, a modern iteration of the sport using more high-tech bows that require less physical strength to draw. Korea is strong in both disciplines, winning two gold medals in each one at the 2018 Asian Games.

Korea’s performance at the last Asiad paled in comparison to the Tokyo Olympics. While Kim Woo-jin won the men’s individual recurve event and the women’s team of Chang Hye-jin, Kang Chae-young and Lee Eun-gyeong took the team gold, Korea took silver in the men’s team, bronze in the women’s individual and did not medal in the mixed team event.

Compound is more competitive, with Indian archers outstripping Korea on both the men’s and women’s world rankings, but Korea is still the second-highest ranked country on either ranking.

The archery schedule will continue through Saturday.

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