Archery: Atanu Das loses to Takaharu Furukawa in pre-quarterfinals at Tokyo Olympics

India's campaign in archery came to an end after Atanu Das, seeded 35th, lost to 46th seed Takaharu Furukawa of Japan 4-6 in the pre-quarterfinals of the men's individual event on Saturday.

India's Atanu Das, seeded 35th, beat 46th seed Takaharu Furukawa of Japan to reach the quarterfinals of the archery men's individual event.

India’s archery campaign at the Tokyo Olympics ended on a disappointing note after the last archer in the fray, Atanu Das, lost to London Olympics silver medallist Takaharu Furukawa of Japan in a third-round match in the men’s individual event on Saturday.

Atanu, who upset London Olympics gold medallist, Jinhyek Oh of Korea, in the previous round, lost 4-6 (25-27, 28-28, 28-27, 28-28, 26-27) to the Japanese, who is a 2015 World championships bronze medallist.

 

Two eights in the opening set did not help Atanu, who gathered better scores (10, 9 and 9) to share points in the next.

The Indian shot two 10s and an 8 to take the third round and level the set scores 3-3.

It was followed by another tied round as both archers collected an identical series of 9, 10, 9 to make it 4-4.

Atanu’s scores of 9, 8 and 9 in the fifth set were not good enough as the Japanese, who had earlier won the team bronze, secured his place in the quarterfinals.