Deepika Kumari leads Indian women's recurve team to first World Cup title in 5 years

Indian women's recurve team continued its momentum to clinch an Archery World Cup gold medal for the first time in 5 years in Shanghai on Sunday.

The trio of Deepika Kumari, Kumkum Mohod and Ankita Bhakat came back from a 2-4 deficit to defeat home favourites China in a 5-4 shoot-off win.

For Deepika, it was her 12th World Cup gold medal, equalling Jyothi Surekha Vennam for the most World Cup titles for India.

This was India's seventh World Cup title in the recurve women's team event with Deepika being a been part of all seven of the team titles.

India had a good start to the match, edging past China 54-53, in the first set but then the hosts showcased their class and won the next two sets (55-52, 57-56).

However, India kept their composure and forced a shoot-off as Deepika found a precise X-shot in the final shot of the last set, to win 54-53.

Then, in the shoot-off, India rode on their momentum, shooting all three yellow ring scores and claiming a 28-26 win to bag this year's first recurve medal for India.

The Indian women's team had a great outing in China, as they had earlier defeated the 10-time Olympic Champion South Korea in the semi-finals.

Meanwhile, Simranjeet Kaur finished fourth in the women's recurve Individual, losing 4-6 to former world champion Jang Minhee of South Korea in the bronze medal match.

She had a poor start to the day, conceding a straight-set defeat to the reigning world champion, Chaeyoung Kang of South Korea in the semi-finals.

With this, India ended the Shanghai World Cup with 2 medals -  the recurve women's team gold and a bronze in men's compound for Sahil Jadhav.