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Archery World Cup: Indian archers defeated Olympic champion South Korea, Dheeraj and Kumkum won gold.

By Samira Vishwas

Archery World Cup Stage 3: A very big and good news has come for India from the ongoing Archery World Cup Stage 3 in Antalya. India’s brave archers Dheeraj Bommadevara and Kumkum Mohod have won the recurve mixed team gold medal by showing amazing performance. In this historic final match, the Indian pair defeated Olympic champion South Korea 5-1 (37-36, 37-36, 39-39).

Amazing synergy between Dheeraj and Kumkum

In this exciting match, 24 year old Dheeraj and only 17 year old Kumkum showed amazing courage. Dheeraj, India’s top recurve archer ranked 16th in the world, ended the match brilliantly by scoring a perfect 10 on his last arrow. Both players scored three perfect 10s each in the entire match, which showed their great team bonding. This is the first World Cup mixed team gold medal for both these archers.

old records of players

Dheeraj’s wait to win a gold medal in the World Cup is now over, before this he had won bronze medals in 2024 with Ankita Bhakta and in 2025 with Bhajan Kaur. At the same time, this is the second consecutive World Cup gold for young sensation Kumkum. Earlier, she was also a part of the women’s recurve team that won against China in Shanghai last month, where the team of Deepika Kumari, Kumkum and Ankita defeated the equally strong South Korean team in the semi-finals.

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Breathtaking final match

From the very beginning of the final match, the Indians put pressure on the Korean team. Taking advantage of Korea’s poor shots in the first set, India took the lead early on. Later, through review, Kumkum’s score changed from 9 to 10, due to which India won the first set 37-36 and took a 2-0 lead. The match in the second set was also equal, but Army archer Dheeraj scored a perfect 10 on the last arrow to put India ahead 4-0.

This is how gold was confirmed in the last set

In the third and last set, the South Korean team tried to make a strong comeback with two perfect 10s and gave a tough fight to India. Korea scored a big total of 39. Now to win, India had to hit its last two arrows accurately without any mistake. Under such huge pressure, first Kumkum scored a perfect 10, and then Dheeraj’s shot also got 10 marks in the review. With this, the third set was tied at 39-39 and India won the gold medal by winning the match with a total score of 5-1.

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