Overview

• The Indian archer beat South Korea’s Kim Yewon after a 5-5 tie, winning the shoot-off 10-9 for gold.
• Seeded 20th, she upset top seed Kim Minjeong 7-3 in the semi-final en route to the title.
• Earlier in the week, she joined Gatha Khadke and Jiyana Kumar to secure U18 women’s team bronze with a 6-0 win over the United States.
• India concluded the youth championships with eight medals—four gold, two silver and two bronze—with Gatha Khadke and Agastay Singh adding mixed recurve bronze on the final day.
• Shende became only the third Indian woman to win the U18 recurve world crown, following Deepika Kumari in 2011 and Komalika Bari in 2021.