Dramatic comebacks mark archery's first day of quarterfinals
The first day of archery quarterfinals was a nail-biting affair as many matches were decided by one-arrow shoot offs and world-class archers were forced out of the competition.
World Archery had also the pleasure to welcome Lord Seb COE, Chairman of the London 2012 Organising Committee, in the tribunes.
Recurve Women Standing Beijing silver medalist GAO Fangxia (CHN) continued her excellent form from the ranking round, where she took top spot. GAO beat Brigitte DUBOC (FRA) to join teammate YAN Huilian in the quarterfinals. The Great Britain pair of Sharon VENNARD and Leigh WALMSLEY had differing fortunes. VERNARD had a 6-2 win over Oyun-Erdene BUYANJARGAL (MGL) to move into the top eight, while WALMSLEY, after a good start, lost 7-1 to Milena OLSZEWSKA (POL).
Recurve Women W1/W2 Iran's success continued with Zahra NEMATI defeating Gizem GIRISMEN (TUR) in straight sets to get into the top four. The much-favoured Turkey archer Hatice BAYAR lost to a very strong Veronica FLORENO (ITA). Even though Marketa SIDKOVA (CZE) had two misses, her arrows that hit the target were so good the match went all the way to a shoot-off which LI Jinzhi (CHN) won.
