India Take Women’s Compound Team Archery Gold at Asian Games

India’s women archers have won the gold medal in the women’s compound team event at the Asian Games 2026. The winning trio was Jyothi Surekha Vennam, Prithika Pradeep and Chikitha Taniparthi, and their shooting in the event equalled the World Record.

A gold with a record attached

The medal alone would have been a strong result. What lifted it further is that the three archers put together a score equal to the best ever shot anywhere in the world in this team event, so the gold came with a world mark levelled. Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the equalling of the World Record made the achievement even more special, described the result as a tremendous achievement for Indian archery and sent his best wishes to the whole team for what lies ahead.

Compound archery, and how the team event runs

Compound is the archery division in which the bow uses a system of cams and cables so that the effort of holding the string at full draw is reduced, and a magnifying sight and a mechanical release aid are allowed. Scores are therefore very high and very tightly bunched, and a single arrow away from the centre usually settles a match. The women’s team event puts three archers from the same country together; their arrows are added and the leading nations go through a knockout bracket to the final. Because the margins are so small, an Indian trio matching the world mark says something about all three archers, not one.

Why the result matters

Compound archery has become one of India’s most reliable sources of gold at continental level, and Jyothi Surekha Vennam is the most experienced name in the group. Pairing her with Prithika Pradeep and Chikitha Taniparthi produced a trio that shot at the very top of the world range. For an aspirant the useful shape of the story is simple: the event is the women’s compound team event, the Games are the Asian Games 2026, the medal is gold, and the record touched is the World Record.

What to remember

Learn all three names together, because a question may drop one of them and ask which archer does not belong. Note also that the World Record was equalled rather than broken, a distinction paper setters like to test.