The Indian team of Jayant Talukdar, Tarundeep Rai and Mangal Singh were upset by Belarus in a close first round match in the men's team recurve event at the Archery World Cup in Shanghai, on Friday.
It was a very close match with the scores being tied 110-110 and it needed a shoot-off to decide the winner.
Belarus shot 27 with their additional three arrows, whereas the third ranked Indian team could only score 24 and failed to advance to the quarter-finals.
However, the women's team avenged the defeat of their men counterparts by defeating Belarus enroute to the team recurve quarter-finals, where they lost to China.
The Indian team of Chekrovolu Sworu, Reena Kumari and Punya Prabha, also ranked third, had defeated Great Britain in the last 16.
In the women's team compound event, the fifth ranked team of Jhanu Hansdah, Manjuda Soy and Bhagyabati Chanu faltered against the fourth ranked Philippines in the round of 16.