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Saturday, November 07, 2009
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Archery: Korea leads with four gold, one silver and one bronze medal
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Yesterday, the archery competition ended at the Hai Phong Youth Gymnasium. There are four set of medals given out on the competition day. Vietnam won one more bronze medal in the men's team compound. The team Cuong, Tuan and Viet Anh narrowly defeated the Indian team with a score of Vietnam 230 – India 226.
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At the women's recurve archery, three representatives: My, Huong and Trang made it to the third round to compete the bronze medal. However they still lost to the Iranian team with the score of: Vietnam 221- Iran 230.
Four gold medals in recurve archery, men's and women's compound archery have been evenly distributed to Korea and Iran. Two gold medals for Iran at men’s single recurve archery and women's compound archery. Korea won two gold at women's compound archery and men’s single recurve archery.
At the end of the archery competition, the Korean team has asserted their first regional position with four gold, one silver and one bronze medal. The second was Iran with three gold, one silver and four bronze medals. Vietnam won three medals in archery: one silver and two bronze medals, ranking at the fifth team out of seven teams who have won medals at the archery competition.
Ha Vy
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