Dhiraj Bommadevara and Kumkum Mohod Reach Recurve Mixed Team Final at Archery World Cup Stage 3 Antalya 2026

Antalya in Turkey is hosting the third stage of the 2026 Archery World Cup from June 9 to 14. Thursday June 11 gave Indian archeryfans something to genuinely feel good about when Dhiraj Bommadevara and 17-year-old Kumkum Anil Mohod sailed through to the recurve mixed team final without dropping a single match across their entire run through the bracket.

The pair beat Denmark 6-0, USA 6-2 and then Germany 6-2 to book their place in Sunday's final against Korea. The most remarkable part of the whole afternoon is that Mohod is in her very first season on the international archery circuit, meaning she went through three matches against experienced international pairs at a World Cup without looking like someone who was doing any of this for the first time.

The pair conceded only four set points throughout the entire afternoon session, and the win over Germany where they posted set scores of 36, 39, 38 and 38 against Germany's 37, 37, 36 and 37 was a clinical performance that showed how well the two had found a rhythm together despite having only shot one mixed team match before this tournament, a second-round loss to Brazil at Stage 1 in Puebla, Mexico.

India reaching a recurve mixed team final at a World Cup is something that has not happened since 2022, which was also at this same venue in Antalya when Ridhi and Tarundeep Rai beat Great Britain in a shoot-off to take the gold medal.

Mohod had already shown what she was capable of at World Cup level before Antalya, having shot the winning X in a shoot-off against China when India's women's recurve team won gold in Shanghai at Stage 2, and Bommadevara brings Paris Olympic experience alongside five consecutive seasons on the international circuit to a partnership that is still finding out what it can achieve together.

Sportscape feels that a 17-year-old in her first international season reaching a World Cup final alongside an Olympian is not something that happens without genuine talent, and what Kumkum Mohod has done across two World Cup stages in 2026 helping win a women's team gold in Shanghai and now reaching a mixed team final in Antalya is the kind of start to an international career that Indian archery is going to be talking about for a long time, particularly with the Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya coming up in September where both she and Bommadevara will be competing together again.