S. Korea finishes 4th in men's compound archery team event
OKAZAKI, Japan — South Korea finished fourth in the men's team event in compound archery at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games on Wednesday, unable to deliver the country's third medal from the sport on the first day of its medal competition. Choi Yong-hee, Choi Eun-gyu and Kim Jong-ho lost to Chang Cheng-Wei, Chen Chieh-Lun and Yen Tzu-Hsiang of Chinese Taipei by the score of 234-233 at Okazaki Chuo…
South Korea concluded their fourth-place finish in the men's team compound archery event at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games held in Okazaki, Japan. Despite not securing the country's third medal in archery on the opening day, the team narrowly missed out on victory by a score of 234-233 against Chinese Taipei's archers. The match took place at the Okazaki Chuo Sogo Park Multipurpose Square, located approximately 50 kilometers southeast of Nagoya.
Choi Yong-hee, Choi Eun-gyu, and Kim Jong-ho faced off against Chang Cheng-Wei, Chen Chieh-Lun, and Yen Tzu-Hsiang. In a standard compound archery match, each archer takes two shots per end, with a maximum possible score of 60 points. After four ends, or 24 arrows per team, the team with the highest total score wins, with 240 being the maximum attainable. In this particular event, South Korea's score dipped from 59 after the first end to 57 in the sixth end, further widening the gap.
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