India retain women's compound team gold, beat China 238-234 at Asian Games
India’s women’s compound archery team retained the Asian Games gold on September 30, defeating China 238-234 in the final at the Okazaki Chuo Sogo Park Multipurpose Square at the Aichi-Nagoya Games.
Jyothi Surekha Vennam, Prithika Pradeep and Chikitha Taniparthi combined to post the winning total, equalling the world and Asian record set by South Korea at Incheon in 2014, and delivering India’s seventh gold medal at the Aichi-Nagoya Games. The win also preserved the title India held from the previous edition in Hangzhou.
Only a four-point margin separated India and China in the final. The trio’s 238 matched the record benchmark while denying China a higher finish in the championship match.
India reached the final after a narrow semi-final victory over South Korea, edging the Koreans 234-233 earlier on the same day. South Korea rallied in the second half to level at 175-all before India took the lead by a single point.
In the closing stages of the semi-final, two 10s from Chikitha and Prithika and a nine from Jyothi secured the one-point margin that carried India through to the gold-medal match. The same combination of archers had beaten Korea in a previous semi-final.
That earlier win over Korea came at World Cup Stage 4 in Madrid, where the trio advanced on the way to a silver medal; this time at the Asian Games they converted a deep run into gold. A post shared by Indian Olympic Dream – KN (@indianolympicdream) read: "Perfection! 🎯India wins GOLD! 🥇 Huge applause to Jyothi, Prithika, and Chikitha for dominating the Women’s Compound Team event at #AsianGames2026 and matching the World Record! What a historic moment for Indian archery! 👑🏹#Cheer4Bharat pic.twitter.com/Mww6HZXRBv"
Individual backgrounds for the three archers: Jyothi, 30, from Vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh, entered the Games as India’s most decorated compound archer with five prior medals, three of them gold. Chikitha, 21, from Peddapalli in Telangana, previously won India’s first women’s individual compound gold at the Junior World Championships. Prithika, 17, born in Nagercoil, Tamil Nadu and raised in Pune, claimed gold at the 2024 Asian Cadet Championships and silver at last year’s World Cadet Championships, took silver to Jyothi at the senior Asian Championships, and added a bronze at World Cup Stage 4 in Madrid earlier this year.
The gold in the women’s compound team event doubled as a title defence and contributed to India’s overall gold tally at the Aichi-Nagoya Games, marking the nation’s seventh gold medal at these Asian Games.
