Rishabh Yadav

Rishabh Yadav (born 13 August 2002) is an Indian compound archer. He has won medals at the World Championships, World Cup the Asian Championships. In 2025, he partnered with Jyothi Surekha to set the mixed team world record with a score of 1431 at the World Cup.

Career

World record In July 2025, he took part in the fourth and final stage of the Archery World Cup at Madrid, Spain, where he performed well in the qualification rounds of both individual and team events to take the top seeding. Later, he combined with Jyothi Surekha to take the top seeding in the team event. On way to creating a world record in the final, he shot up a tally of 716 points, hitting 68 out of 72 arrows in the 10-point ring, including 35 Xs in the bulls eye. It was his career-best score in an international event. The Indian archers totalled 1431 (70 Xs) in the qualification and broke the mixed team 144-arrow score at 1429, a record held by Denmark's Tanja Gellenthien and Mathias Fullerton which they shot at the Krakow-Malopolska European Games in 2023.

Earlier in May 2025, he bagged his first World Cup individual medal, a bronze medal at Shanghai, China.

In April 2025, he bagged a gold medal in the team event along with Jyothi Surekha in the first stage Archer World Cup round held at Auburndale, USA. In the knockout rounds in US, the duo defeated Spain (156-149), Denmark (156-154), and Slovenia (159-155) to reach the final, where they beat Chinese Taipei.

2024 In the fourth stage of the 2024/25 Indoor World Series at Nimes, France, Rishabh bagged a silver medal in the compound event men category. He scored 148 but lost to Austria’s Nico Wiener, who hit a total of 149 points.

2022 Rishabh earned two silver medals in individual and men's team categories at Archery Asia Cup 2022 Stage 1 in Thailand. He also secured a gold and silver medal in men's team and individual categories at Archery Asia Cup Stage 2 in Iraq. He represented India at Senior World Archery Championship 2022 in USA.

2021 At the 2021 World Archery Youth Championships at Wrocław, Poland, he won the bronze medal in the men's compound archery event. On 17 November 2021, he won the bronze medal in the men's compound archery team event along with Abhishek Verma and Aman Saini and a silver medal in the mixed team event with Jyothi Surekha Vennam at the 22nd Asian Archery Championship in Dhaka, Bangladesh.