Indian archers return empty-handed from WC Stage II

Press Trust of India  |  Shanghai 

returned empty-handed from the Stage II here after the country's recurve and compound mixed pair teams crashed out in the second round, here Friday.

Jagdish Choudhary and Preeti were 1-1 in the opening set but they failed to capitalise and went down to the American pair of and 2-6 in the recurve section.

Later, the compound mixed duo of and Parveena, who got a bye in the first round, lost 151-155 to their lower-ranked opponents from Malaysia, thus ending their campaign without a medal.

The Indians already exited from the individual and team events of both the recurve and compound categories on Thursday.

The Association of fielded a second string side for the second stage of and they were further handicapped by the absence of any in compound section due to internal wrangling in the parent body, Association of (AAI).

Travel issues had prevented India's top team from attending the season-opener in and it was expected that they would be sent for

But AAI stuck to their original plan of sending the reserves for

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First Published: Fri, May 10 2019. 18:26 IST