Member of India's silver medal-winning compound archery men's team, Rajat Chauhan knows exactly what it's like to take on a late challenge. Yesterday, at the GBK Sports Stadium here, the men's and women's compound archery teams won silver going down to the mighty South Koreans, but the men lost by a hair's breadth, quite literally.

Close battle
The Indian men, the defending champions here, began with a perfect score of 60 points, four ahead of the Koreans before dropping to a score of 54 in the next set and the Koreans drawing level. The Indians again took the lead 58 to Korea's 56, but a drop once again in the fourth set saw the match head into the shoot off. With both teams finally finishing on the same score — 229 points — the Koreans were adjudged winners as one of the arrows had hit the bullseye — a perfect shot — while the Indians had hit 10-pointers. The difference between a 10-pointer and a bullseye shot is a hair's breadth.