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Kolkata, July 16 (IANS) Only four Indians in the recurve bow section have survived the individual elimination round of the 11th Youth World archery championship at Ogden at Utah in the US.
According to information received here, the four archers are Atanu Das and Pawan Xalxo in the junior men’s recurve, Sanjay Boro in the cadet recurve men and Deepika Kumari in the cadet recurve women — all moved into the quarterfinals with facile victories.

The Indians were routed completely in the compound bow group Wednesday.

Fifth seeded Das will take on 13th ranked Xing Yu of China and 10th ranked Pawan Xalxo will challenge the might of second seed from South Korea Sung Wook Yeong for a place in the semi-finals of the junior recurve men’s section.

Seventh seeded Boro will meet 18th seed Osman Eskici of Turkey in the cadet men’s recurve section while Senior and Sub-junior national champion and fourth seed Deepika will come up against fifth seed Miranda Leek of the US. A win will lift both the Indians into the semi-finals.

Hemanta Basumatary (junior recurve men) and the two junior recurve women contestants, Seema Verma and Balemai Hansda all made their exits in the second round while Sumita Kumari was eliminated in the third.

Among the cadet archers, only Mangal Ho seemed to have put up a stiff fight losing to Gael Prevost of France in the pre-quarterfinals. Parashan Nath lost in the third round.

None of the eight compound archers could reach upto to the world standard shooting by their opponents and were eliminated either in the first or second round action. Only Sudhakar Kumar Paswan made it to the pre-quarterfinals of the cadet men’s section.