Kolkata, Aug 5 - Indian men's recurve team of Jayanta Talukdar, Rahul Banerjee and Mangal Singh Champia finished overall third in the World Cup archery (Stage IV) which began at China's Shanghai Wednesday.
With the Indians putting up their least impressing showing of the four World Cup meets held so far, best individual placing was 10th by Talukdar with a total of 1,324 points in the FITA qualification round, according to information received here.
The three gave India a total of 3,941 points which placed the country third overall behind Korea (4,044) and France (3,953). India will take on 14th placed Ukraine in the first round.
Banerjee finished 18th with a total of 1,313 and Champia was 24th with 1,304 points.
Oh Jin Hyek of Korea topped the individual qualifier with 1,366 points. Lee Chang Hwan, also of Korea, was second with 1,351 and Chen Wenyuan of China was third with 1,338.
Talukdar, who is all set to qualify for the four-man World Cup finals at Copenhagen in Denmark Sep 26, had qualified to the meet proper by finishing 12th at Santo Domingo, second at Porec and sixth at Antalya in the previous three meets.
Banerjee had ended first, seventh and third respectively while Champia had stood second, sixth and 19th in the previous three tournaments' qualifiers.