India’s Rajat Chauhan won the silver medal in compound archery at the Macau Indoor Archery Open on Sunday.
He missed the gold narrowly, losing 147-146 in the final to Mike Schloesser of Netherlands, while Korea’s Kim Taeyoon finished with the bronze medal. In the semi-final, the Indian clinched a shoot-off against the Korean bronze medallist after the scores were tied at 144-144.
The tightly-contested final against Schloesser came down to a difference of one single point, with the scores of the five rounds reading 29-30, 30-28, 30-29, 29-30, 29-29 in favour of the Dutch archer.
In the quarter-final, Chauhan beat Majid Ahamdi of Iran by a single-point margin of 146-147. In the first two rounds, he overcame Iran’s Nima Mahboubi Matbooe and Hong Kong’s Leung Wing Chi.
Earlier in qualification, he had finished sixth with a total score of 588.
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