Indian recurve archers Deepika Kumari and Parth Salunkhe ended the 2025, Shanghai World Cup with bronze medals in their respective categories in Shanghai, China, on Sunday.
Deepika defeated Kang Chaeyoung of Korea in the bronze medal match while Parth defeated Baptiste Addis of France. This was India’s first medal of the year in the women’s recurve category, whereas Parth confirmed India’s second consecutive medal in men’s recurve after Dhiraj’s bronze at the Florida World Cup last month.
12th Individual WC Medal for Deepika Kumari
Veteran archer Deepika Kumari won her 12th Individual medal after a close finish against Kang, scoring two brilliant final sets of perfect 30 and 29, respectively.
Deepika denied Korean team a clean sweep in the category with this bronze medal win over Kang.
“I didn’t expect anything from me. My mission is different. That is very important for me because there is a different environment, a different feeling, a little anxiety, a little happiness. I want to achieve that [gold] in that place,” said the Olympian archer to World Archery.
Earlier, she had a tough loss (1-7) in the semi-final against Paris Olympic champion Lim Sihyeon of South Korea, to miss out on her fifth individual World Cup title.
Parth wins maiden WC Medal
Current U21 World champion Parth Salunkhe won his maiden World Cup medal after defeating Paris Olympic medalist Baptiste in the bronze medal match.
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Parth had a poor start to the day as he lost to the Paris Olympic champion Kin Woo Jin of South Korea. It was a tight semi-final as Parth made a comeback after losing the first two games but couldn’t win the match and shot a 7 in the deciding set to lose 4-6.
He faced a similar situation in the bronze medal match as the scores were tied at 4-4 but this time he shot two consecutive 10s to clinch the bronze medal.
With these two medals in the recurve category, India ended the 2025 Shanghai World Cup with seven Medals – 2 Gold, 1 Silver, and 4 Bronze medals.
Indian medalists at Shanghai Archery World Cup
Gold – Madhura Dhamangaonkar – Women’s Individual Compound; Ojas Deotale, Abhishek Verma, and Rishabh Yadav – Men’s compound team
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Silver – Jyothi Surekha Vennam, Chikitha Taniparthi, and Madhura Dhamangaonkar – Women’s compound team
Bronze – Abhishek Verma and Madhura Dhamangaonkar – Mixed Team Compound Bronze; Deepika Kumari – Women’s Individual
Recurve Bronze ; Parth Salunkhe – Men’s Individual Recurve Bronze ; Rishabh Yadav – Men’s Individual Compound
