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JULY 27: Malaysia will have to do it the hard way if a medal is to be won in archery after the national challenge fizzled out in today's ranking round at the Lord's Cricket ground..
Malaysia finished 10th in the team event with 1,981 points and will face Mexico in the first round tomorrow. A win is likely to see them playing France, who finished second in the ranking round, in the quarter-finals.
The situation in the individual is equally bleak as Khairul Anuar Mohamad, the best placed Malaysian finisher at 20th, will face compatriot Cheng Chu Sian in the first round on Monday. Chu Sian, a quarter-finalist in Beijing 2008, finished 45th in the ranking round.
Haziq Kamaruddin, the other Malaysian in action, faces Kazakhstan's Denis Gankin tomorrow.
Sole woman archer Nurul Syafiqah Hashim had an even more miserable outing, finishing 60th out of a field of 64 in the ranking play-off.
She faces France's Berengere Schuh, who finished 37th in the ranking round, in the first elimination round on Tuesday.
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