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Dhiraj Bommadevara won the men's recurve title at the Archery World Cup Final 2026 in Saltillo, Mexico, on 13 September 2026.
He beat Japan's Nakanishi Junya 6-5 in a shoot-off after the match was locked at 5-5, hitting a 10 to his opponent's 9.
He is the first Indian man and only the second Indian after Dola Banerjee in 2007 to win an individual title at the season-ending World Cup Final.
Ranked world number 10, Dhiraj was India's only representative in Saltillo, having qualified by winning his maiden World Cup stage gold at Antalya earlier in 2026.
Silver in the men's recurve team event at the Asian Games in Hangzhou
Finishes fourth in the mixed team event at the Paris Olympics with Ankita Bhakat
Wins individual gold at the Asian Archery Championships, a first for an Indian man in recurve
Takes his maiden World Cup stage individual gold, booking his place in the season-ending Final
Beats Nakanishi Junya in a shoot-off at Saltillo to become the first Indian man to win the Archery World Cup Final
International governing body for the sport, founded in 1931 as FITA. It runs the Archery World Cup - a series of stages through the season whose best performers qualify for the season-ending Final - and the World Archery Championships.
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The bow style used at the Olympic Games, with limbs that curve away from the archer; the compound bow is the other World Archery discipline and is not in the Olympic programme.
The tie-breaker in a set-system match: each archer shoots one arrow, and the higher score - or the arrow closer to the centre - wins.
The season-ending event of the Archery World Cup, contested by the eight best-performing archers of the season in each category.