India sweeps compound archery team golds on Asian Games Day 12
India swept the compound archery team titles at the 2026 Asian Games on Wednesday, September 30, turning Day 12 into its strongest gold-medal day of the competition so far. Victories in the women’s, mixed and men’s events were followed by gold in mixed team trap shooting. Two boxing bronzes and a wrestling bronze brought India’s confirmed tally to 60 medals: 10 gold, 21 silver and 29 bronze.
The four golds moved India to eighth in the medal standings at Aichi-Nagoya, Japan. Archery supplied the defining sequence, with the women beating China, the mixed pair surviving a shoot-off against South Korea and the men edging China by a single point.
Three finals, three archery golds
Jyothi Surekha Vennam, Chikitha Taniparthi and Prithika Pradeep began the run in the women’s compound team final. They defeated China 238-234, equalling the world-record score for the event and retaining the title India won at the previous Asian Games. The margin reflected a final in which India gave its opponents little room to recover.
Chikitha returned to the range alongside Sahil Jadhav for the mixed team final. India and South Korea finished regulation level at 157-157 before the Indian pair prevailed in a shoot-off. The win gave Chikitha her second gold of the day and secured India a quota place in the compound mixed team event at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, where the discipline is due to make its Olympic debut.
Jadhav then joined Kushal Dalal and Ganesh Mani Ratnam Thirumuru in the men’s team final. Against China, India held on for a 238-237 victory to complete the sweep. Jadhav, like Chikitha, finished Wednesday with two gold medals. India had won all five compound archery titles at the Hangzhou Games held in 2023; the three team victories in Japan extended that success, with individual events still to be decided.
Shooting gold and three bronzes
The day’s fourth gold came at the trap shooting range. Neeru Dhanda and Kynan Chenai won the mixed team event, finishing ahead of Qatar in the medal contest. It was another podium appearance for Neeru, who had won the women’s individual trap title on Tuesday. Together, the archery and shooting results doubled India’s gold haul from six at the start of Wednesday to 10.
India also added two boxing bronzes. Priya Ghanghas reached the women’s 60kg semifinals before losing to China’s Yang Chengyu, while Kapil Pokhariya took bronze in the men’s 90kg division after a semifinal defeat by Uzbekistan’s Turabek Khabibullaev. Boxer Narendra Berwal’s bronze was won on Tuesday and is not an additional Day 12 medal.
Sunil Kumar supplied the third bronze of Wednesday in men’s Greco-Roman wrestling at 87kg. He beat the Philippines’ Callum Johnston Roberts 9-0 in the bronze-medal bout, giving India its first wrestling medal of these Games. Kumar had also taken bronze in Greco-Roman wrestling at the Hangzhou edition.
More medal matches ahead
Beyond the day’s confirmed podium finishes, India advanced in team competitions that could add to the tally. The women’s hockey side beat South Korea 2-0 to reach the final against China. Ishika Chaudhary and captain Salima Tete scored in the semifinal, setting up a gold-medal match on Friday, October 2.
India’s men’s and women’s squash teams also won their quarterfinals, against Kuwait and Singapore respectively, to reach the semifinals and assure medals. Those prospective finishes should not be added again to Wednesday’s confirmed count. The distinction matters in a live multi-sport competition: a place in a later medal round is progress, but the final medal table records results as they are settled.
For now, the Day 12 picture is clear. India won seven medals on September 30—four gold and three bronze—with the compound archery sweep at its center. The confirmed total stood at 60 as the team headed into the remaining days of the Games.
