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Kumkum Mohod and Sujeet Kalkal have been rewarded for their standout campaigns at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games, with the Indian Olympic Association naming them the inaugural recipients of its awards for the best female and male athletes of the Games. Mohod, 17, has received the Jaspal Rana Award after a memorable debut at the continental…
News sports other-sports Golden Girl Kumkum Mohod Scripts History, Amravati Erupts In Joy: ‘She Has Made India Proud’ Last Updated:October 04, 2026, 09:00 IST Kumkum Mohod’s family and neighbours rejoiced after the teenager scripted history at the Asian Games, with her father saying that she has made both Amravati and India proud. Kumkum Mohod in…
India finished with 85 medals. First-timers won 41 of them. Kumkum Mohod is 17. Nagoya was her first Asian Games. She left with three medals. It started with gold in the women’s recurve team event, India’s first in that event at the Games. Then she and Dhiraj Bommadevara took silver in the mixed team. Then…
Seventeen-year-old Kumkum Mohod’s historic Asian Games gold turned her neighbourhood in Maharashtra’s Amravati into a scene of celebration on Saturday. Kumkum became the first Indian woman to win an individual recurve archery gold medal at the Asian Games after she struck a perfect 10 in the decisive shoot-off at the Aichi-Nagoya Games in Japan. For…
Last Updated:October 03, 2026, 12:38 IST The 17-year-old from Maharashtra capped a dream Asian Games debut with individual and team recurve gold medals, while also adding a mixed team silver to her growing collection. Kumkum Mohod in action (Picture credit: World Archery) Asian Games gold medallist Kumkum Mohod has said that she used to get…