Archery team aim high despite loss

Good fight: Syaqiera Mashayikh fires up the women’s team archery in the elimination round match against Indonesia. — AP

NATIONAL archer Syaqiera Mashayikh is in the best form of her life, and that could drive her to do well when she takes on Moldova’s Alexandra Mirca in the individual event at the Paris Olympics today.

Although the women’s recurve team of Syaqiera, Ariana Nur Dania Mohd Zairi, and Nurul Azreena Mohd Fazil bowed out of the team event on Sunday, Syaqiera managed to score a new personal best of 663 points during the individual ranking rounds to finish 14th out of 64 competitors.