The fancied men's recurve trio of Olympian Tarundeep Rai, Jayanta Talukdar and Rahul Banerjee finished 10th in the qualification round to set up a clash with China in a tough first round battle at the Archery World Championship in Turin, Italy [ Images ] on Tuesday.

The Indians need to get past the first round hurdle on Wednesday so as to earn quota place for the 2012 London [ Images ] Olympics [ Images ].

The Indian trio managed a mediocre tally of 3939 points for a poor 10th place that put them against China (3982) who were seventh. It was a poor outing for the trio as senior-most pro Rai slipped to 62nd place with a score of 1296.

Banerjee was at his worst, totalling a pathetic 1289 for a 72nd place finish.

It was Talukdar who logged 1354 to hand India [ Images ] a fifth place finish.

The Guwahati archer, in fact, shot 343/360 in the 70m distance to take the pole position but he slipped to settle for a fifth place.

On Monday, the women's trio of Deepika Kumari, Laishram Bombayla Devi and Chekrovolu Swuro finished a creditable fourth to draw against France [ Images ] in their last eight fixture.