Rishabh Yadav

Rishabh Yadav (born 13 August 2002) is an Indian compound archer with medals from the World Championships, World Cup, and Asian Championships. In July 2025, during the final stage of the Archery World Cup in Madrid, Spain, he topped the qualification rounds in both individual and mixed team events. Partnering with Jyothi Surekha, he shot a career-best 716 points—hitting 68 of 72 arrows in the 10-point ring, including 35 Xs (bullseyes)—to help the pair total 1431 points (70 Xs) in qualification. This broke the previous mixed team 144-arrow world record of 1429, set by Denmark’s Tanja Gellenthien and Mathias Fullerton at the 2023 European Games in Krakow-Malopolska.

Earlier in 2025, Yadav won his first World Cup individual medal—a bronze—at Shanghai, China in May. In April, he and Jyothi Surekha claimed gold in the team event at the first World Cup stage in Auburndale, USA, defeating Spain (156-149), Denmark (156-154), and Slovenia (159-155) before beating Chinese Taipei in the final.

In 2024, at the fourth stage of the Indoor World Series in Nimes, France, he earned a silver medal in the men’s compound event, scoring 148 but losing to Austria’s Nico Wiener (149).

In 2022, Yadav won two silver medals—individual and men’s team—at the Archery Asia Cup Stage 1 in Thailand, and a gold (men’s team) and silver (individual) at Stage 2 in Iraq. He also represented India at the Senior World Archery Championships in the USA that year.

In 2021, he took bronze in the men’s compound event at the World Archery Youth Championships in Wrocław, Poland. On 17 November 2021, at the 22nd Asian Archery Championship in Dhaka, Bangladesh, he won bronze in the men’s compound team event (with Abhishek Verma and Aman Saini) and silver in the mixed team event (with Jyothi Surekha Vennam).