Taiwan settles for silver at Archery World Cup

Taipei, April 13 (CNA) Taiwan's compound mixed team Chen Chieh-lun (陳界綸) and Huang I-jou (黃逸柔) finished with a silver medal at the 2025 Hyundai Archery World Cup in Central Florida on Sunday, losing to India 151-153, on the international circuit's first stop.

In the championship round, Chen and Huang encountered strong Indian compound archers Jyothi Surekha Vennam and Rishabh Yadav. In 2023, Vennam bagged three gold medals in the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou, China.

The compound competition at the Archery World Cup adopts a total points system. In the mixed team events, each team is allowed 80 seconds to shoot a total of four arrows in each set. After four sets, the team with the higher total score wins.

The Taiwanese archers got off to a good start in the match, securing a lead of 38-37, 39-38 in the first two sets, or a total score of 77-75.

In the third set, despite trailing 38-39, the Taiwanese pair remained in the lead with a total score of 115-114 following the first three sets.

However, they lost the fourth set 36-39, due to a surprise shot of only 8 by Huang.

As a result, the Taiwanese pair ended with a lackluster 151-153 finish, which saw them settle for the silver medal.

Chen will then face off Mathias Fullerton of Denmark in the men's individual recurve semifinals. Fullerton is a silver medalist in mixed team at the 2023 World Archery Championships.

Compound archery will be making its debut at the Los Angeles Olympics in 2028, with the mixed team event set to be featured as a medal event, according to the World Archery, the governing body of the sport of archery based in Lausanne, Switzerland.