Published: October 2, 2026 at 10:12 pm
India won their maiden recurve gold at the Asian Games as the women’s recurve archery team of Ankita Bhakat, Kirti Sharma and Kumkum Mohod scripted history at the Asian Games 2026 on Friday, beating the Republic of Korea 5-3.
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The result at the Okazaki Chuo Sogo Park Multipurpose Square also ended South Korea’s run of seven successive Asian Games women’s recurve team titles dating back to Bangkok 1998.
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The South Korean side featured Olympic recurve team gold medallist and reigning individual world champion Kang Chae-young, alongside Lee Yunji and Oh Yejin.
The final remained locked at 2-2 after the teams tied the opening two sets 54-54 and 56-56. India made the decisive move in the third, winning it 55-51 to take a 4-2 lead. South Korea scored 54 in the fourth before 17-year-old Kumkum’s final arrow’s 10 helped India match the score and seal the title.
The Indian women’s team, which had qualified sixth with 1962 points, beat Mongolia 6-0 and Chinese Taipei 6-0 before defeating the People’s Republic of China 5-1 in the semifinals.
India miss Olympic archery mixed team quotas
Earlier, Kumkum and Dhiraj Bommadevara won silver in the mixed team event after going down 5-3 against China’s Zhu Jingyi and Li Mengqi in the final.
The defeat meant India missed the opportunity to obtain the one men’s and one women’s LA 2028 Olympics quotas available to the recurve mixed team champions at Aichi-Nagoya.
Kumkum Mohod and Dhiraj Bommadevara won silver in the mixed team event after going down 5-3 against China’s Zhu Jingyi and Li Mengqi in the final
China won the opening two sets 38-34 and 37-35 to take a 4-0 lead. India responded by taking the third 37-36 before the fourth finished 37-37, giving China the title.
Kumkum and Dhiraj, who had qualified second with a combined 1364, beat the UAE 6-0 and Vietnam 6-0 before overcoming Japan 5-3 in the semifinals.
Men team wins silver
Later in the day, the men’s recurve team of Dhiraj, Neeraj and Yashdeep Bhoge, meanwhile, took silver after losing 5-1 to South Korea in Friday’s final.
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The opening set finished 56-56 before South Korea took the second 57-50 and the third 56-54 to seal the gold medal.
The men’s team, which had qualified third with 2039 points, beat the Philippines 5-1 and China 5-1 before sweeping the Islamic Republic of Iran 6-0 in the semifinals.
It was India’s second successive men’s recurve team silver at the Asian Games following the runner-up finish at Hangzhou 2023.
India will have further opportunities to obtain LA28 recurve quota places on Saturday, with Kumkum, Dhiraj and Neeraj Chauhan competing in the individual quarterfinals.
The gold and silver medallists in both the men’s and women’s individual recurve events will obtain one quota place each for their respective countries.
India had already obtained its first LA28 archery quota at Aichi-Nagoya when Chikitha Taniparthi and Sahil Jadhav won the compound mixed team gold on Wednesday.
