The Indian women's recurve team bounced back strongly after the disappointment of missing out on an Olympic quota to finish second behind Mexico in the qualification round of the Archery World Cup Stage 3, here on Tuesday.

The troika of world number three Deepika Kumari, Ankita Bhakat and Komalika Bari, who had made a shock second-round exit in the final Olympic Qualifier on Sunday, accumulated 1986 points to qualify for the pre-quarterfinals. Incidentally, Mexico and India had an identical top-two finish in Sunday's qualification round before the Indian trio were eliminated by Colombia in straight sets. The second-seeded Indian women's team will face the winners of the tie between Spain and Sweden in the last-16. Meanwhile, Atanu Das, Tarundeep Rai and Pravin Jadhav won their respective individual matches to advance to the second round of men's individual recurve event later. World Cup first stage champion Das finished 23rd in the qualification round with 664 points. Jadhav (662) was the next best Indian at 27 place, while veteran Rai (650) finished a lowly 60th.