Taiwan beats Bangladesh to nab bronze at Archery Asia Cup in Singapore

Taipei, June 18 (CNA) Taiwan's men's recurve archery team won bronze Wednesday at the Archery Asia Cup in Singapore, after defeating Bangladesh 5-3 in the third-place playoff.

The team, composed of Yang Kai-han (楊凱涵), Lin Yu-yang (林育暘) and Liu Tai-yen (劉泰言), had an average age of 19.

According to coach Kuo Chen-wei (郭振維), the Taiwanese team's performance was decent overall, though the athletes "still have room to improve."

The second leg of the Archery Asia Cup is being held in Singapore from June 15-20, according to World Archery website.

Taiwan was seeded second in the qualification round, behind India.

The team received a first-round bye and advanced directly to the quarterfinals, where they defeated Malaysia 5-1 to reach the final four.

Taiwan lost to Japan 2-6 in the semifinals and failed to advance to the gold medal match. Japan is set to face India in the final, according to the World Archery Website.

In the bronze medal match, Taiwan's archers maintained their composure despite a tie during the match and sealed victory in the fourth set with three 10-point arrows.

Kuo told CNA that the team did not perform as well as Japan, especially in hitting 10s, but he was "satisfied with how things went overall."

Meanwhile, Taiwanese archer Chen Pin-an (陳品安), a first-year high school student, ranked 22nd in the individual recurve qualifying round.

Chen advanced to the semifinals in the elimination round but lost and will face a Japanese archer for bronze on June 20.