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India Wins First Archery Gold and Boxing Gold at Asian Games

The Indian women’s recurve archery team defeated South Korea 5‑3, securing the nation’s first gold in that discipline.

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Key Points

4 points

Women’s recurve archery gold (5‑3 over South Korea).

Mixed recurve archery silver.

Boxing gold in 75 kg class.

Sepaktakraw bronze; total medals now 72.

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In the mixed recurve event, Dhiraj Bommadevara and Kumkum Mohod earned a silver medal.

Boxer Lovlina Borgohain won gold in the women’s 75 kg category, beating China’s Bao Ziyi 5‑0 on her 29th birthday.

The men’s sepaktakraw quadrant team captured bronze, bringing India’s overall medal count to 72 (12 gold, 25 silver, 34 bronze).

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5 words

recurve

a bow with tips that curve outward, used in Olympic‑style archery

mixed recurve

an archery event where a male and female archer shoot together using recurve bows

sepaktakraw

a sport from Southeast Asia where players use their feet, knees, chest, and head to hit a rattan ball over a net

quadrant

a team of four players in sepaktakraw

medal tally

the count of gold, silver, and bronze medals a country has earned

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