Asian Games: India women beat South Korea 5-3 for recurve team gold

On 2 October 2026, at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games in Okazaki, India's women's recurve team beat South Korea 5-3 on set points in the gold-medal match. Neutral Politics checked the official results pages and the reports in Sportstar, Business Standard, News On AIR and The Korea Times, which carried Yonhap. The accounts were checked on 2 October 2026 (IST). This note was posted at 12:44 pm IST the same day.

India's team was Ankita Bhakat, Kirti Sharma and Kumkum Anil Mohod. South Korea's team was Lee Yun-ji, Kang Chae-young and Oh Ye-jin. The official final page lists the set scores as 54-54, 56-56, 55-51 and 54-54. Its status is Official. The page's match time is 10:20 local. It was read at about 9:40 am IST. Those clock times are as printed on the official pages. They are not converted here.

Set points give 2 for a win and 1 for a tie. The match is first to 5. It finished 5-3 to India. In the fourth set, a score review changed one Indian arrow from 8 to 9. The Korea Times, Sportstar and News On AIR report that change. The official fourth-set line, after the review those outlets describe, is 54-54.

One figure does not match. News On AIR gives Korea 52 in set 3. The official results show 51, in the line 55-51. This note uses the official 51.

India reached the final by beating China 5-1 in the semi-final. The official semi-final page lists the sets as 53-51, 54-52 and 51-51. That page's match time is 9:25 local. In the bronze-medal match, China beat Indonesia 6-2. The official bronze page's match time is 9:55 local. Set scores for the bronze match are not in the accounts used here.

Sportstar, News On AIR and The Korea Times report the gold as India's first in the women's recurve team event at the Asian Games. The Korea Times reports that Korea had won every title in the event since 1998 before this final. Sportstar's story is timed at 7:31 am IST. Business Standard, by Anish Kumar, is timed at 7:29 am IST. News On AIR is timed at 8:00 am IST. The Korea Times story is timed at 11:42 KST, given by that source as 7:42 am IST.

The cover is a stock archery photograph from Pixabay, listed as archery-arrow-target-sport-focus-472932, under the Pixabay Content License. It is not a photograph of this match or of these archers.

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What these accounts do not state is India's medal table after this gold. This note does not invent a tally, a bronze set score, or the name of the archer whose arrow moved from 8 to 9.