Asian Games: Japan beats North Korea for mixed team recurve archery gold

Japan's mixed recurve archery team won gold at the Asian Games on Monday with a 6-0 shutout of North Korea.Tomomi Sugimoto and Takaharu Furukawa won the first set 36-35, scored a perfect 40 in the second, and snared the third with a 38-36 score to prevent North Korea's Kang Un Ju and Pak Yong Won from getting on the board.The mixed team event was included on Asia's quadrennial multisport games' program for the first time in Indonesia.Teams are awarded two points for registering the highest score after each archer has shot twice. If there is a draw, each team is awarded one. The first to fiv…READ FULL ARTICLE