India, Oct. 2 -- Back-to-back medals in recurve archery at the Asian Games. A gold and a silver. Who would have thunk it?

India did, apparently.

A couple of hours after the Indian women's team took the historic gold, the mixed recurve team of Dhiraj Bommadevara and Kumkum Mohod backed it up by adding the silver at the Aichi-Nagoya Games on Friday. The Indian combine lost to China 5-3 in the final after beating Japan in the semi-final to fall one step short of securing an early quota for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.

This is India's first medal in the mixed-team recurve event, which became part of the Asian Games programme in 2018.

China had the first set comfortably in the bag at 38-34 after Dhiraj started with an 8 and Kumkum shot a...