South Korea, Chinese Taipei, Malaysia and the US advanced to the
last four of men's team at the "Good Luck Beijing" Olympic archery
test event in Beijing on Wednesday.
On behalf of South Korea, Im Dong Hyun, Kim Yeon Chul and Lee
Chang Hwan beat archers of Uzbekistan in 1/8 finals and defeated
Polish archers in quarter-finals with 228-216 to reach the top
four.
Chinese Taipei team was composed of Guo Chengwei, Liu Minghuang
and Wang Chengbang. Though they ranked 13th in the preliminaries,
they beat Australia who ranked fourth with 224-194 in 1/8
eliminations. Then they defeated Italy 220-211 in quarter-finals
and got to the semifinals.
The Malaysian team has not so much advantages against its rivals
but they beat them both. Firstly Malaysia beat China 218-214 in 1/
8 eliminations and then defeated Russia 218-215 in 1/4
eliminations.
The US beat Ukraine to make the top eight. In 1/4 eliminations,
US had a fierce competition with Japan and finally won by a whisker
and got to the semifinals. Both team scored 214 points and US stood
out in T29 against Japan's T27.
(Xinhua News Agency August 22, 2007)