Sheetal Devi Equals the Compound World Record with 704 at the Asian Para Games in Aichi-Nagoya
Indian para-archer Sheetal Devi, 19, shot 704 out of 720 in the women's compound ranking round at the 5th Asian Para Games on 19 October 2026 at the Okazaki Chuo Sogo Park Multipurpose Square, Aichi-Nagoya, equalling the world record held by Turkey's Oznur Cure. Her card included 32 X-ring hits and 57 arrows scoring 10. The score is also a new Asian record, six points better than her 698 at Bangkok in March 2026, and above her Asian Para Games mark of 680 at Hangzhou in 2023. With Payal Nag's 675, India topped the women's compound doubles ranking round on 1,379.
Sheetal Devi, from Jammu and Kashmir, is the world's first armless female competitive archer and won two golds and a silver at the 2022 Asian Para Games held at Hangzhou in 2023 | Compound archery is shot over 50 metres, with a maximum ranking-round score of 720 from 72 arrows | The Asian Para Games are held every four years under the Asian Paralympic Committee, the first edition being at Guangzhou in 2010