Archery WC: Rishabh-Jyothi pair sets new world record in Compound

India’s Rishabh Yadav and Jyothi Surekha Vennam lit up the fourth and final stage of the Archery World Cup with a record-breaking performance, setting a new world record in the Compound Mixed Team category during the qualification round.

The Indian pair combined for a total of 1431 points, including 70 Xs, surpassing the previous world record of 1429 set by Denmark’s Tanja Gellenthien and Mathias Fullerton at the 2023 European Games in Krakow-Malopolska.

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“It’s special because the mixed team is newly added to the Olympics and we’ve been having such small achievements over time,” the 22-year-old Rishabh was quoted as saying by the World Archery.

“We opened the season with the mixed team gold together (Florida 2025) but we didn’t shoot the mixed team the next two stages together. Now here in the fourth stage we are back together, and we both shot good so it’s interesting and we are happy with the consistency we have together,” he added.

Meanwhile, Rishabh and Jyothi poled in the compound men’s and women’s individual qualification, grabbing the top seedings in both individual and team events.

Rishabh stayed atop the 85-athlete field throughout the evening at Vallehermoso Stadium in Madrid and was on course to beat Braden Gellenthien’s 718 individual compound men’s world record at 30 arrows with a perfect 300.

But, 68 out of 72 arrows in the 10-ring (35Xs) is still a magnificent score and the Shanghai 2025 – stage two – bronze medallist’s 716 is a new personal best.

The other Indians in action, Priyansh (710) and Aman Saini (709) were the next best from the country, placing 10th and 11th overall, respectively.

In the compound women’s, Asian Games champion Jyothi too set an international personal best at 715 (35Xs) simultaneously grabbing top seed in her event.

“I have been shooting good this year but somewhere I just felt there was something left behind. But today, since the morning practice I felt really, really good with the way I was shooting, and I just wanted to shoot the same way in the qualification,” said Jyothi, who hadn’t poled in the prior three World Cups this year.

Parneet Kaur (702) and 16-year-old debutant Prithika Pradeep (699) secured seventh and 10th places respectively, contributing to India’s top seeding in the women’s team event with a total score of 2116 points, ahead of Mexico (2108) and South Korea (2095).