After leading her team and her country to a place it had never been before, at the very top of the women’s recurve archery in the continent, Kumkum Mohod came out a day later and repeated history. This time for herself.
Kumkum Mohod won women’s recurve archery gold The 17-year-old from Amravati became India’s first recurve champion in Asian Games history, defeating South Korea’s Oh Yejin in a thrilling shoot-off victory on Saturday and securing an early quota spot for India for the 2028 LA Olympics.
No Indian woman had ever won an individual medal in recurve in the sport’s most challenging continental event. Kumkum turned up at her first Asian Games and grabbed the gold. She will depart from Aichi-Nagoya with three: an individual gold, a team gold, and a mixed team silver.
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How’s that for a debut?
Fittingly, a 10 from the Indian teen in the shoot-off sealed the piece of history.
Her giant-slaying run took down many mighty women that day, including South Korea’s Kang Chaeyoung, the reigning World Championships defending champion and Tokyo Olympics medallist, and China’s Zhu Jingyi (6-2), the World Championships silver medallist.
Kumkum carried her form from the team events. On Friday, she shot 10s off the set’s final shots whenever India needed one to st
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