Jyothi Surekha Vennam led India's charge at the Asian Archery Championships 2025 in Dhaka, Bangladesh, clinching gold medals in both individual and team events, and spearheading the country's impressive five-medal haul in the compound section.
Olympian Deepika Kumari and and Asian Games champion Jyothi Surekha Vennam will spearhead India's 16-member squad for the upcoming Asian Archery Championships 2025 which will take place in Dhaka, Bangladesh from November 8 to 14.
India secured their first-ever gold medal in the men's compound archery team event, while Rishabh Yadav and Jyothi Surekha Vennam won silver in the compound mixed team event, which will make its Olympic debut at Los Angeles 2028, according to Olympics.com.
Indian archers have won 15 medals in the competition - three gold, nine silver and three bronze. All three gold medals and one bronze were won at the last edition in 2023, hosted in Berlin, where India finished first, according to Olympics.com.
Jyothi Surekha Vennam emerged as a key figure as India secured three medals, all in the compound events at the Archery World Cup 2025 stage 4 in Madrid on Saturday.
India wrapped up their campaign at the Archery World Cup 2025 in Shanghai with a total of seven medals, including bronze medals for Olympian Deepika Kumari and Parth Salunkhe in the individual recurve events, as per Olympics.com.
This marks their third successive Archery World Cup medal, having captured medals in the stage one held at Shanghai and the second one held in Yecheon, South Korea.
The India women's compound team of Jyothi Surekha Vennam, Parneet Kaur and Aditi Gopichand Swami clinched a thumping win over Turkey in the semi-final round of the Archery World Cup Stage 3 on Wednesday.
The 16 archers, eight men and eight women, will be playing in the third leg of the competition. Deepika Kumari, the three-time Olympian secured the gold during the first stage of the competition in Baghdad back in February, but she skipped this event keeping in mind preparations for the thir
Three-time Olympian Deepika Kumari suffered a defeat in her women's individual recurve archery bronze medal match, losing to Mexico's Alejandra Valencia by a 4-6 scoreline.
Compound archer Jyothi Surekha Vennam who won three gold medals in Shanghai World Cup, is backing Deepika Kumari to qualify for the Paris Olympics 2024 for the fourth time.