The Indian men’s team, which finished 11th in the qualification round of the Archery World Championships in the Netherlands, will have to win two matches to secure Tokyo Olympics berths.
Two-time Olympian Tarundeep Rai, a silver medallist at the 2005 Madrid World Championships, shot 676 to secure the best finish (11th) among the Indians, while his young Army colleague Pravin Jadhav was next best at 31st place with a score of 673.
But the biggest let down was the top-ranked Indian, Atanu Das, as the Rio Olympics pre-quarterfinalist shot 666 for a poor 50th position, which cost the team a top-eight finish that would have helped them secure a bye into the round of 16.
India (2015 points) were just three points behind Great Britain who got a bye into the pre-quarters and will now have to overcome 22th seed Norway and then sixth seed Canada to secure the Olympic quota places in the men’s recurve.
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