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After their embarrassing early exit in the individual events, Indian archers on Saturday bowed out of the men's and women's team events as well following their losses to lower-ranked opponents in the quarter-finals of the World Cup (Stage IV) in Shanghai.
Similar to their early exit from the individual section of the recurve division on Friday, the Indian men's and women's teams also made a quiet departure bringing an end to India's campaign at the event.
Having won two golds and a silver medal in the earlier three legs, the third seeded men's team moved into the quarter-finals with a facile 217-207 victory over 14th ranked Ukraine.
But the Indian trio of Rahul Banerjee, Mangal Singh Champia and Jayanta Talukdar allowed sixth seeded Mexico to dominate the proceedings and win a semi-final berth with a 218-210 verdict.
Mexico, however, failed to go past Korea in the semi-finals and will play Spain in the bronze medal play-off. Spain lost to France in the other semi-finals.
The story in the women's section was the same.
Third seeds Rimil Buriuly, Pratima Boro and Dola Banerjee, made short work of 14th ranked Kazakhstan 213-200 but came a cropper against sixth-placed Italy, losing 215-219.
India could have won an unexpected bronze medal but the Indian duo of Rimil Buriuly and Jayanta Talukdar lost to France 138-140 in a closely fought third-place play-off match in the mixed team event.
The Indian pair had to first shoot off with the Russian team because of a tie in the qualification. Having won the contest against Russia and seeded fourth in the four-team main event, India lost to Korea 143-153 and moved to the third-place play-off, which did not prove lucky.