India, Sept. 30 -- Chikitha Taniparthi and Sahil Jadhav clinched India's second gold in archery by winning the mixed compound event at the ongoing 2026 Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, on Wednesday.

This was not the first time a mixed compound archery team from India had won a gold medal at the Asiad. But what Chikitha and Sahil achieved in addition to winning gold was earn direct passage to where no compound archer had ever been before - the Olympic Games.

For the first time, compound archery will be making an appearance at the Olympic Games at the 2028 edition in Los Angeles.

Recurve archery, however, has long been associated with the Olympics. It had made its debut in the 1900 edition in Paris, and after a break, has been consist...