India's men's compound team beat China 238–237 for Asian Games gold

India's men's compound archery team beat China 238–237 in the final at the Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya on 30 September 2026. The team was Kushal Dalal, Sahil Jadhav and Ganesh Mani Ratnam Thirumuru. The official results page has China on 237 and India on 238. Sportstar, The Hindu, Deccan Chronicle carrying PTI, and Olympics.com report the same 238–237. This is the men's team. It is not the women's compound final and not the mixed compound final. Those are separate stories from earlier the same day.

India was behind, and then it was not. The running score was India 58, China 60 after the first end; 118–120 after the second; 178–179 after the third; and 238–237 at the end. The official page's end totals match that path: India 58, then 60, 60 and 60; China 60, 60, 59 and 58. Deccan Chronicle's PTI copy gives the first three running scores as 58–60, 118–120 and 178–179. Sportstar says India trailed by two after the first two ends and cut the gap to one after the third. That is the same shape. Olympics.com has China 60–58 up after the first end, and 179–178 going into the last. The last end is the one that turned it. India shot six 10s, a 60. China's last end was 58 and included an 8. The official page lists those arrows. It does not name which archer shot the 8. Sportstar, Deccan Chronicle via PTI and Olympics.com name Jiahao Liao for that arrow. The name is their attribution. It is not on the results page.

The semifinal score to use is the official one. The semifinal page has India 236 and South Korea 229. Deccan Chronicle via PTI, Olympics.com and IANS report 236–229. Sportstar and NDTV Profit wrote 234–233. That second figure is not used. It matches the women's compound team semifinal against South Korea, which is a different match and already has its own report. The men's semifinal in this account is 236–229.

The men's gold is the third compound team gold of the day, on the reports that add the three up. The Hindu gives all three scores: the women beat China 238–234, the mixed team beat South Korea 158–157, and the men beat China 238–237. Deccan Chronicle, citing PTI, calls it a hat-trick. Olympics.com describes a sweep and gives the same women's and men's finals, with the mixed final as 157–157 and a 20–19 shoot-off, which is the 158–157 already reported. Sportstar also places this gold with the other two compound team golds. The women's 238 and the mixed team's Los Angeles 2028 quota are not reopened here. They belong to those stories. This report does not call the men's 238 a world record.

Sahil Jadhav's second gold of the day is what two outlets say, and it is tied to the mixed team. The Hindu says the day brought two gold medals for Chikitha and for Sahil. Olympics.com says both Chikitha and Sahil won two gold medals each. The mixed gold is the other one. This match does not, on this material, give Kushal Dalal or Ganesh Mani Ratnam Thirumuru a second gold.

What stays out is the medal table and the colour writing. An overall gold count, a "10th gold", and a 58-medal total do not agree across the pages checked, including an earlier Deccan Chronicle line of 56 medals and nine golds, so no total is stated. Sportstar and NDTV Profit also disagree on whether three Chinese shots or two were left at the finish, and that detail is not used. A line that Sahil was flawless across eight arrows, and a line about a perfect 180 from the remaining arrows, are Olympics.com only. Headlines that say India defended the title are not used as a finding. The Chinese team's full names are not needed for the score.

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The official result is a 238–237 gold over China, from 58–60, 118–120 and 178–179, with six 10s in the last end, and a 236–229 semifinal over South Korea. The hat-trick is what The Hindu, PTI, Olympics.com and Sportstar say about the three compound team finals on 30 September. Sahil Jadhav's two golds are The Hindu's and Olympics.com's line.