{"id":21608,"date":"2026-06-15T08:57:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T03:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/dhiraj-ends-20-year-wait-with-historic-double-gold-at-world-cup-stage-iii-more-sports-news\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T08:57:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T03:27:42","slug":"dhiraj-ends-20-year-wait-with-historic-double-gold-at-world-cup-stage-iii-more-sports-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/dhiraj-ends-20-year-wait-with-historic-double-gold-at-world-cup-stage-iii-more-sports-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Dhiraj ends 20-year wait with historic double gold at World Cup stage III | More sports News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-131732129,imgsize-179038,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/131732129.jpg\" alt=\"Dhiraj ends 20-year wait with historic double gold at World Cup stage III\" title=\"India's Dhiraj Bommadevara (Image: ANI)\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Ta7d_ img_cptn\"><span title=\"India's Dhiraj Bommadevara (Image: ANI)\">India&#8217;s Dhiraj Bommadevara (Image: ANI)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>It took India\u2019s top recurve archer <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/dhiraj-bommadevara\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Dhiraj Bommadevara<\/a> 20 long years since picking up the bow to win a gold at the World Cup. And when he did that, he bagged a \u2018double\u2019 at the World Cup Stage-III at Antalya on Sunday.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/>Pairing up for the first time this season, the 24-year-old Olympian Dhiraj and 17-year-old Kumkum Anil Mohod stunned the Korean duo of Kim Je-deok and Oh Ye-jin 5-1 (37-36, 37-36, 39-39) to win India\u2019s first World Cup recurve mixed team gold medal match since Antalya 2022, when Ridhi and Tarundeep Rai ended on top.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"7\"\/>It was almost a perfect run for the duo who defeated Denmark 6-0, USA 6-2 and Germany 6-2 to book a place in Sunday\u2019s final against Korea, who had won both Olympic mixed team gold medals since the event joined the Games at Tokyo 2020.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"11\"\/>Hours later, Dhiraj returned to the arena to tame Germany\u2019s Moritz Wieser 6-4 (2627, 28-28, 28-28, 3027, 28-23) in the individual semifinal and then South Korea\u2019s Lee Woo Seok, the Paris Olympics bronze medallist, 7-3 (3029, 29-28, 27-27, 27-29, 30-29) in the summit clash.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"13\"\/><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"15\"\/>Dhiraj, who made his World Cup debut in 2021, thus improved upon his 2023, 24 and 25 World Cup bronze medal winning performances and made the season-ending World Cup Finals too.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"18\"\/>Rising star Kumkum was also part of the women\u2019s recurve team which stunned 10-time Olympic champions Korea in the semifinals en route to gold in the Shanghai World Cup last month. Although more experienced Dhiraj was seen guiding Kumkum throughout the final, he later stated, \u201cI learnt a lot from her fearless way of shooting.\u201d <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"20\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/sports\/more-sports\/others\/dhiraj-ends-20-year-wait-with-historic-double-gold-at-world-cup-stage-iii\/articleshow\/131732125.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s Dhiraj Bommadevara (Image: ANI) It took India\u2019s top recurve archer Dhiraj Bommadevara 20 long years since picking up the bow to win a gold at the World Cup. And when he did that, he bagged a \u2018double\u2019 at the World Cup Stage-III at Antalya on Sunday.Pairing up for the first time this season, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}