Asian Games 2023: India’s archery results and scores for all events and medal winners - full list
A 16-member Indian archery contingent won nine medals at Hangzhou 2023. Know medallists, results and scores of all Indian archers.
Archery
A 16-member Indian archery contingent finished with nine medals at the Asian Games 2023 in Hangzhou, the People’s Republic of China.
Archery at the Asian Games 2023 started on October 1 and concluded on October 7. The Fuyang Yinhu Sports Centre was the venue for all archery events at Hangzhou 2023.
Competitions in both the recurve and non-Olympic compound disciplines featured in the archery programme at the Asian Games 2023. Each category had medal events in the men’s individual, women’s individual, men’s team, women’s team and mixed team sections.
Indian compound archers clean swept all five gold medals in their category with Jyothi Surekha Vennam and Ojas Pravin Deotale emerging as the women's and men's individual champions, respectively. Abhishek Verma won the silver in the men's individual category while the 17-year-old Aditi Swami clinched a bronze in women's.
India also won gold medals in the men's, women's and mixed team compound events at Asian Games 2023. Jyothi Surekha Vennam and Ojas Pravin Deotale won three golds each.
Recurve archers, on the other hand, managed to bring home two medals from Hangzhou. The recurve men's team of Dhiraj Bommadevara, Olympian Atanu Das and Tushar Shelke clinched a silver while Bhajan Kaur, Ankita Bhakat and Simranjeet Kaur claimed the recurve women's team bronze.
This was India's best showing in archery in any edition of the Asian Games.
Asian Games 2023 archery: India team
- Men’s recurve - Dhiraj Bommadevara, Atanu Das, Mrinal Chauhan, Tushar Shelke
- Women’s recurve - Bhajan Kaur, Prachi Singh, Ankita Bhakat, Simranjeet Kaur
- Men’s compound - Prathamesh Jawkar, Rajat Chauhan, Ojas Pravin Deotale, Abhishek Verma
- Women’s compound - Avneet Kaur, Jyothi Surekha Vennam, Aditi Gopichand Swami, Parneet Kaur
Heading into Hanzghou 2023, India had won 10 medals - one gold, four silver and five bronze - in archery competitions at the Asian Games. Rajat Chauhan, Sandeep Kumar and Abhishek Verma had accounted for the gold, in the men’s compound team, at Incheon 2014.