Taipei Times
Date: Jun 14, 2019
By: Staff writer, with CNA

Taiwan’s men’s and women’s recurve archery teams on Wednesday shot their way to next year’s Tokyo Olympic Games by advancing to the quarter-finals of the Hyundai Archery World Cup in the Netherlands.

The third-seeded men’s team made a great start against France at the world championships, which act as the primary qualification tournament for next year’s Olympics, winning the first set 57-55, but were pegged back by France, who rallied and took the second set 55-56.

The game seesawed, with Taiwan winning the third set 55-54 to reclaim the lead, only to see France storm back again 54-55 in the fourth set.

As the game advanced to a thrilling shoot-off, with each player having one more shot, Taiwan’s Tang Chih-chun, Wei Chun-heng and Deng Yu-cheng managed to keep their cool and scored a near-perfect 29 to France’s 25 to secure the full three-athlete Olympic quotas.    [FULL  STORY8]