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The Indoor World Series 250 – Taipei Archery Open, hosted at Taoyuan NTSU Arena for the second consecutive year, continued with the qualification rounds on the afternoon of the 8th. Indian archer Ankita Bhakat made a remarkable comeback, securing the top position in the women’s recurve bow category. In the men’s compound bow category, Netherlands’ Mike Schloesser achieved a perfect score of 600, claiming the first position.

The 2023 Indoor World Series 250 – Taipei Archery Open is being held at Taoyuan NTSU Arena for the second consecutive year. The qualification rounds took place on the 8th December, with Chinese Taipei and India dominating the men’s recurve and women’s compound events in the morning. Tokyo Olympic silver medalist and local archer “Tang Bao” TANG Chih-chun, along with this year’s Hangzhou Asian Games triple gold medalist VENNAM Jyothi Surekha, secured the top spots.

(World Archery, JOHN STANLEY) It was a long time coming but, finally, it very much happened. The inaugural Taipei Open, the first major tournament for more than a decade to take place in one of archery’s most dominant Asian nations, felt like the start of something. Astonishingly whipped together in just three months after Chinese

(World Archery, CHRIS WELLS) India’s world number 31, Muskan Kirar, won the compound women’s title at the first Taipei Archery Open – her first appearance on the international indoor circuit – as she joined Mike and Gaby Schloesser, and Wei Chun-Heng atop the podium. Kirar beat local archer Huang I-Jou with a better 10 in a tiebreak. “It was a great experience,” said the 22-year-old. “I

(World Archery, CHRIS WELLS) Dutch couple Mike and Gaby Schloesser have qualified first in their respective categories at the inaugural Taipei Open, December’s elite points stage of the 2023 Indoor Archery World Series, with the host’s Su Yu-Yang and Chen Yi-Hsuan completing the line-up of top seeds. Mike, known as Mister Perfect since shooting the first perfect 600-point indoor round in Nimes in 2015, posted

（World Archery, CHRIS WELLS) World Archery’s mass-participation indoor circuit is set to return this winter with four official points events scheduled from November 2022 to February 2023 in Luxembourg, Chinese Taipei, France and the USA. The GT Open, Sud de France Archery Tournament and Vegas Shoot return as legs, alongside the Taipei Archery Open for the first time. Local event organisers will