Archery: Fuge misses WC final medal; Jyothi makes quarters exit

Tlaxcala: Rising star Prathamesh Fuge pushed defending champion Mathias Fullerton in the men’s compound semifinal at the Archery World Cup Final before missing out on medal after losing a tense shoot-off.

In a thrilling end-to-end contest here on Saturday, both archers shot perfect 10s throughout all five regulation ends, totaling 15 arrows each, without dropping a single point.

The match was deadlocked 150 all, forcing a nail-biting shoot-off to decide the winner.

The shoot-off resulted in another 10-all tie, but the Danish archer edged out the Indian by mere millimeters, with his arrow landing closer to the centre. A win would have confirmed a maiden medal for Fuge who was then left to fight the bronze playoff and lost to world champion Mike Schloesser 146-150.

Fullerton eventually settled for a silver after losing to American James ‘Jimmy’ Lutz 149-150.