The men’s recurve archery team of Jayanta Talukdar, Rahul Banerjee and Mangal Singh Champia on Friday downed Italy to reach the final and put India in line for yet another gold medal in the World Cup Stage 2 at Porec, Croatia.

India will face Russian Federation for the recurve team gold on Saturday.

The Indian outfit had no problem in thrashing Slovakia 224-193 in the first round.

Later, they tamed USA 227-218 in the quarterfinals in a field of 16 teams.

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