GUWAHATI, June 10: Ace archer Jayanta Talukdar added another World Championship Gold Medal to his name as India lifted the men’s recurve team event title in the World Archery Championship Stage II held at Antalya, Turkey today. India beat USA by 218-214 in the final.

Indian team, comprising of Rahul Banerjee, Mangal Singh Champia and Jayanta Talukdar, were favourite in the final. Earlier, India faced USA for five occasions in the World Cup Competition and in all the five times India came out as victorious. This time Brady Ellison, Richard Johnson and Victor Wunderle who represented USA in the final today, got a golden opportunity to take the sweet revenge but they failed to capitalize the opportunity, thanks to a brilliant performance by the Indians.

India took lead from the very beginning scoring 54 in the first end. Later, they collected 51, 57 and 56 points in their last three ends to finish 218. On the other hand, USA scored 50, 54, 53, 57 in their stipulated four ends and they fell short by four points which finally made the difference between the two sides.

It may be mentioned here that India also reached into the final of the World Archery Championship Stage I held at Porec recently but they lost the title clash against Italy. # #