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Seasoned compound archers V. Jyothi Surekha and Abhishek Verma led India to assertion 4 medals, including 3 gold, astatine the Asian archery championships successful Dhaka connected Thursday (November 13, 2025).
Jyothi secured the women’s idiosyncratic and squad golden medals, portion Verma played his portion successful helping India triumph the mixed squad golden and men’s squad silver.
Jyothi produced a near-perfect show to bushed Taipei’s 149-143 successful the semifinals earlier seeing disconnected 17-year-old compatriot Prithika Pradeep 147-145 successful the women’s idiosyncratic last arsenic India took the apical 2 spots.
Earlier, Jyothi, Prithika and Deepshikha combined good arsenic India defeated Korea 236-234 to container the women’s squad title. The Indians scored an identical 59 successful each 4 ends.
Verma, on with Prathamesh Fuge and Sahil Jadhav, mislaid the men’s squad golden medal lucifer 229-230 to Kazakhstan by a solitary point. But Verma and young Deepshikha gelled good to grounds a 153-151 triumph implicit big Bangladesh successful the mixed squad last for the apical honour.
The results:
Compound: Individual: Women: Semifinals: Prithika Pradeep bt Kulsum Mone (Ban) 146-145; V. Jyothi Surekha bt Chen Si-yu (Tpe) 149-143; Gold medal match: V. Jyothi Surekha bt Prithika Pradeep 147-145.
Team: Men: Gold: India (Prathamesh Fuge, Sahil Jadhav, Abhishek Verma) mislaid to Kazakhstan (Bunyod Mirzametov, Dilmukhamet Mussa, Andrey Tyutyun) 229-230; Women: Gold: India (Deepshikha, V. Jyothi Surekha, Prithika Pradeep) bt Korea (Park Yerin, Oh Yoohyun, Park Jungyoon) 236-234; Mixed: Gold: India (Deepshikha, Abhishek Verma) bt Bangladesh (Bonna Akter, Himu Bachhar) 153-151.
