Success only for mixed team

Although Bangladesh pulled a string of surprising wins to reach final in recurve mixed team event of the Archery World Cup, they were eliminated from both men's and women's recurve team events in Lausanne, Switzerland yesterday.

The men's team, comprising Ruman Sana, Krishna Saha and Tamimul Islam, got off to a fine start in pre-quarterfinal to beat 3rd-ranked Spain 57-54 in the first set before conceding defeats in next two sets (54-56, 54-58). Ruman and Co then bounced back in the fourth set to level things up with a score of 55-54, forcing the match to a tiebreak where they lost by 23-28 points.

In the women's event, the Spaniards dominated over Diya Siddique, Beauty Roy and Monera Akter to win the pre-quarterfinal by 6-2 set points. The 3rd-ranked Spain beat Bangladesh by 54-45, 44-53, 52-50 and 54-52 points.