The campaign of Indian archers has come to an end after Indian men's' recurve team went down to China 216-221 in the quarterfinal of the 45th World Archery Championship at Ulsan, South Korea on Monday.

The third seeded Indian men's team including Rahul Banerjee, Mangal Singh Champia and Jayanta Talukdar defeated 11th ranked Malaysia 217-207 in the pre-quarterfinal earlier in the day.

However, they failed to overcome the challenge of the sixth-seeded team of China later in the day and Indian team will have to return home without winning any medal.

It was a heavy moment for medal prospect Mangal Singh Champia, as he was eliminated from the men’s archery individual event in the round 16 at Beijing Olympics.

Champia was the only Indian competitor in the Men’s individual archery. He started his day with good spirits as he got past Iran’s Vaezi Hojatollah in the round of 32 winning 112 to 98 to progress into the pre-quarters.

But unluckily, Champia could not win against his Russian opponent, Bari Badenov in the 16th round. Though he performed really well, but fell short and lost the game by narrow margin of just one point.