Riau Ega Knocked Out, The Red And White Archery Representative At The Tokyo Olympics Runs Out

JAKARTA - Riau Indonesian archer Ega Agatha Salsabilla was eliminated in the second round of the top 32 men's individual recurve event at the Tokyo Olympics at Yumenoshina Park Archery Field, Thursday. With this result, the representative of Merah Putih archery at the four-yearly sports party was exhausted.

Launching Antara, Riau Ega, who won 7-1 over Australian representative David Barnes in the first round, was now forced to surrender with a score of 5-6 (19-28, 28-28, 30-27, 26-27, 28-24, 8 -9) over United States representative Wukie Jacob in the second round, according to official Olympic records.

Riau Ega actually had a tough time competing with Jacob. Even though he only scored 19 points in the first set and left him 0-2 behind, the athlete who also appeared in Rio 2016 was able to make it 3-3 in the third set.

The fourth set was more tense when Ega's score was only one point ahead of Jacob. A score of 26 makes Ega back behind 3-5.

The 29-year-old responded immediately in the fifth set by scoring two 10s and an 8th to return to a 5-5 draw.

The match then proceeds to the shoot-off round where each archer shoots once, and the archer who gets the best points is entitled to advance to the next round.

Unfortunately, Ega's steps had to be stopped in the round of 16 because he only scored 8 points, while Jacob had 9 points.

With this defeat, the Indonesian archery representative at the Tokyo Olympics was finished. Arif Dwi Pangestu had been eliminated two days earlier, while Diananda Chorunisa and Alviyanto Bagas Prastyadi were eliminated in the match that took place this morning.