The Indian women’s recurve team, comprising Deepika Kumari, Ankita Bhakat and Kumkum Mohod, won the gold medal at the Archery World Cup 2026 in Shanghai after beating hosts, the People’s Republic of China, in a shoot-off on Sunday.
The fourth-seeded Indian trio, up against a young second-seeded Chinese archery team of Zhu Jingyi, Huang Yuwei and Yu Qi, won the shoot-off 28-26 after both sides were level at 4-4 at the end of four sets.
Ankita Bhakat, who finished fourth at the Paris 2024 Olympics in the mixed team event with Dhiraj Bommadevara, opened the shoot-off with a 9 before Kumkum followed with a 10.
With 8 needed to seal the win, four-time Olympian Deepika shot a 9 to complete the victory.
This was Deepika’s 39th Archery World Cup medal, Ankita’s eighth and Kumkum Mohod’s first.
In the women’s team recurve archery semi-finals, India had defeated 10-time Olympic champions and top seeds South Korea 5-1.
With the gold medal on Sunday, India concluded the Shanghai leg of the Archery World Cup 2026 series with two medals. India’s Sahil Jadhav won a bronze medal in the men’s individual compound event on Saturday.
Meanwhile, Simranjeet Kaur missed out on a bronze medal on Sunday after losing the medal match 6-4 against the Republic of Korea’s Jang Minhee – a former world champion and an Olympic team gold medallist.
Kaur was the only Indian archer to make the individual semi-finals in the recurve events but lost her last four clash to South Korea’s Kang Chaeyoung – the reigning world champion – by a 6-0 scoreline.
Kang Chaeyoung, also a Tokyo 2020 team gold medallist like Jang Minhee, beat the Indian veteran Deepika Kumari 6-4 in the round of 16.
Earlier in the qualifying round, Kaur finished 15th behind the other three Indians – Ankita Bhakat (10th), Kumkum Anil Mohod (11th) and Deepika Kumari (14th).
Kumkum Mohod also lost in the round of 16 while Ankita Bhakat could not make it past the round of 32.
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