India’s Chinglensana fails to win archery medal

November 6th, 2009 - 12:42 am ICT by IANS ( Leave a comment )

Kolkata, Nov 5 (IANS) India’s sole individual medal hope Maisnam Chinglensana Luwang bowed out of the semi finals and then lost the play-off for the bronze in the men’s compound bow event of the third Asian Indoor Games Archery competition in Hanoi, Vietnam, Thursday.
The Manipur-born armyman lost to ultimate gold medal winner Reza Zamaninejad of Iran 111-117 in the last four battle at the Haiphong Youth Gymnasium, according to information received here.

Later in the day, he went down to another Iranian Mansour Kordi 110-112 in a third place play-off.

India can still win archery medals Friday when the team championship would be played.

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