India has introduced a 12-member archery workforce for the Asian Video games 2026, which might be held in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, from September 19. The squad was finalised following the second part and closing choice trials performed on the SAI NCOE in Sonipat, Haryana, encompassing each the Asian Video games and World Cup Levels 3 and 4.
The workforce consists of three archers every in males’s and ladies’s recurve and compound classes, as confirmed by Olympics.com. Within the ladies’s recurve part, Ankita Bhakat and Kumkum Mohod, who lately helped India safe gold by defeating China on the Archery World Cup in Shanghai, have been included within the squad. Olympian Deepika Kumari, additionally a part of the Shanghai gold-winning workforce, didn’t make the ultimate choice.
Main the boys’s recurve workforce is Dhiraj Bommadevara, whereas skilled archer Atanu Das didn’t qualify. Each Deepika Kumari and Atanu Das completed fourth within the trials, narrowly lacking choice. Atanu Das was a member of India’s silver-medal-winning recurve workforce on the Hangzhou 2023 Asian Video games.
World quantity three Jyothi Surekha Vennam will lead the ladies’s compound workforce after incomes three medals on the 2023 Asian Video games, the place she gained gold in particular person, workforce, and combined occasions. Defending Asian Video games champion Ojas Deotale was a notable omission from the workforce, ending fifth within the trials.
On the Hangzhou 2023 Asian Video games, India gained 9 archery medals, together with 5 gold, two silver, and two bronze. The chosen squad will even symbolize India at World Cup Levels 3 and 4, scheduled respectively for June in Antalya, Turkey, and July in Madrid, Spain.
Chosen Indian archery squad for Asian Video games 2026:
Recurve males: Dhiraj Bommadevara, Neeraj Chauhan, Yashdeep Bhoge.
Recurve ladies: Kirti Sharma, Kumkum Anil Mohod, Ankita Bhakat.
Compound males: Sahil Jadhav, Kushal Dalal, Thirumuru Ganesh Mani Ratnam.
Compound ladies: Jyothi Surekha Vennam, Chikitha Taniparthi, Prithika Pradeep.