At the recent Asian Archery Championships in Dhaka, Bangladesh, a total of 10 gold medals were at stake across recurve and compound events....
At the recent Asian Archery Championships in Dhaka, Bangladesh, a total of 10 gold medals were at stake across recurve and compound events. The Korean contingent was present for the event. So, naturally, you’d expect them to dominate even if the Olympians were not participating. And indeed, they did. A total of nine gold medals out of the 10 on offer went to Korea.
The only non-Korean gold medallist was India’s Jyothi Surekha Vennam in the individual women’s compound final.
Of course, Korean archers don’t quite dominate compound events as they do recurve. (In Dhaka, all individual recurve semifinals were all-Korean affairs.) So, let’s cast our mind back a few weeks to the Archery World Championships in Yankton. Only two compound archers finished on the podium in all three possible events (individual, team, mixed team). One was Colombia’s Sara Lopez, considered widely as the greatest ever in the sport. She finished with gold medals in all three events.
The other was India’s Jyothi Surekha Vennam, finishing second only to the legendary Lopez in the three events to clinch three silver medals.
Quite simply, Vennam was on fire in the two main events to close out the 2021 archery season.
Jyothi Surekha Vennam’s medals in 2021:
Asian Championships,...
