India defeated Korea 5-3 to win the women's recurve team title at the Asian Games on October 2, 2026. Ankita Bhakat, Kirti and Kumkum Mohod secured India's first gold in the event, ending Korea's run of seven consecutive titles.
The Indian mixed team of Mohod and Dhiraj Bommadevara also reached its final but lost 5-3 to China's Zhu Jingyi and Li Mengqi. China took the two Olympic quota places attached to that mixed-team victory.
The scorelines are set points, not the sum of the arrows' target values. World Archery awards two points for a won set and one to each side for a tied set; a recurve team or mixed team wins upon reaching five.
That scoring changes how an advantage carries through a match. A large target-score win in one set earns the same two set points as a narrow win. Archers cannot bank a wide margin from one set to compensate for losing later sets, unlike the cumulative scoring used in compound competition.
The women's team shoots six arrows per set, while the mixed pair shoots four. A shared 5-3 scoreline can therefore describe contests with different numbers of archers and arrows, while still using the same threshold for victory.
India's women's gold was a break with an established competitive pattern; the mixed silver showed another Indian combination reaching a title match. Mohod's involvement in both linked the two results, but their Olympic qualification consequences were different.
