India Stuns Korea, Schloesser Wins 10 | Archery Jun 8-14

The Antalya archery week ended with two stories that will travel further than the venue blurb suggests. Mike Schloesser collected his 10th individual World Cup gold on a windy Saturday, and on Sunday a 17-year-old from Maharashtra and her 25-year-old teammate handed Korea’s reigning Olympic mixed-team duo a 5-1 loss in the gold-medal match. Between them sat a host-nation compound triumph, a USA debut to file away, the closing weekend of the Yankton field-and-3D nationals, and a quietly building 2026 flagship bow cycle that’s already moving market share. Here is the archery week of June 8–14, 2026.

Schloesser Lands 10 With Two 149s at Gloria Sports Arena

Mike Schloesser does not miss many gold-medal matches, but Saturday’s compound men final at Antalya 2026 still felt like a statement. The Dutchman shot two 149s under overcast skies and a brief rumble of thunder to take stage three of the Hyundai Archery World Cup — his 10th individual stage gold and his fifth career win in Antalya. Sebastian Garcia Flores took silver for Mexico. Mathias Fullerton of Denmark, who matched Schloesser arrow for arrow in the semifinal before losing on a closer-to-center 10, settled for bronze.

What separates Schloesser at this point is not raw mechanics — plenty of compound archers can shoot 149s — but his control of the long match. He has now hit double-digit individual World Cup golds, joining a very thin club of senior compound archers who treat the international circuit like their home range. He pointed to the 2013 Belek world title afterwards, calling the Antalya area his lucky ground. The bigger story: with Asian Games qualifiers tightening across compound, Schloesser is heading into Madrid’s season finale as the man to beat for the third year running.

India Bommadevara and Mohod Stun Korea in Recurve Mixed Team Final

The biggest upset of the week was not on the compound field. On Sunday, India’s Dhiraj Bommadevara and Kumkum Anil Mohod beat Korea’s Kim Je-deok and Oh Ye-jin 5-1 in the recurve mixed team gold-medal match. That sentence reads small until you remember that Korea has won every Olympic mixed-team gold since the event entered the program at Tokyo 2020, and Kim Je-deok is already a multiple Olympic gold medalist at 22.

Bommadevara, the 2025 Asian champion, did most of the heavy lifting. He shot four 10s across the three winning sets, including the second end that swung the match. Mohod, who turned 17 earlier this year, was competing in her first World Cup mixed-team final and held her line under pressure that would crack a lot of more experienced archers. “We didn’t think about who we were playing against; we were just focusing on ourselves,” Bommadevara told reporters after. It is a near-clinical line that matches a near-clinical performance.

The result reshapes the Asian Games preview. India and Korea are now the two teams to beat heading into Aichi-Nagoya, and a rematch under the heavier pressure of a continental Games is a story already writing itself. For Bommadevara personally, this is the gold he had been chasing. He had taken mixed-team bronze with Ankita Bhakat in 2024 and Bhajan Kaur in 2025. Third time, third partner, top step.

Host Nation Türkiye Adds Women’s Compound Team Gold

While the Saturday spotlight was on Schloesser, Türkiye’s women’s compound trio delivered a quieter but locally massive result, taking the team gold over Mexico in front of a home crowd. Hazal Burun anchored the lineup that has now stacked multiple international team golds in 2026 — Shanghai in May, the European Grand Prix earlier in Antalya, and now World Cup stage three in the same city. The team gold belongs to an emerging Turkish compound program that ranks alongside the United States and India as a podium threat at every senior event on the calendar.

The truth is that women’s compound at the very top of the World Cup is the deepest it has ever been. Five federations — Türkiye, USA, India, Mexico, Colombia — can put a team on the gold-medal stage on any given weekend. If you are picking up compound this year and looking at who to model your draw and release after, the World Archery+ replays of these team semifinals are the cleanest tape you can study. Watch how Burun stays in her shot when the wind shifts mid-end.

Savannah O’Donohue, 17, Reaches Final Four on World Cup Debut

Inside the USA contingent, the name to write down is Savannah O’Donohue. She qualified 23rd at 690 on Tuesday, then beat 2023 circuit silver medalist Tanja Gellenthien 146-145, then took out Germany’s Katharina Raab 146-144 on one of the windiest, most humid days of the week. Final four, in her first senior World Cup ever, at age 17.

This is what USA Archery has been quietly building toward. O’Donohue is the same archer who tripled up with three golds at the 2024 youth worlds, and she has now collapsed the senior learning curve in a single trip. The wind handling matters more than the score. Antalya is famous for the Mediterranean cross-breeze off the bay, and most teenagers in their first senior event spray arrows wide when conditions move. She didn’t. If you coach a JOAD program and you want a study case in pressure shooting under variable wind, watch her quarterfinal end-by-end on replay. The technical execution is older than her age.

Yankton Crowns Field and 3D National Champions

Across the Atlantic, the USA Archery Field Nationals and 3D Nationals wrapped at Gavin’s Point Archery Range in Yankton, South Dakota, on June 6 — also doubling as the World Field Championships team trials. The headline names came through. Paige Pearce took her fourth straight compound women’s field title. Brady Ellison won compound — sorry, recurve — men’s, his hometown crowd well aware that he is still the standard at age 37. James Lutz, who set a new compound men’s world record at the Gator Cup earlier this spring, took compound men’s in Yankton.

The recurve women’s title was the most-watched: Casey Kaufhold, world number two and a Tokyo bronze medalist, was shooting her first field archery event of any kind and won the division. Field archery — odd-distance, uneven-terrain, multi-target rounds — is a different sport from target. Most elite target archers lose two to three points per arrow when they first walk a field course because the angle and yardage estimation games eat them alive. Kaufhold’s split-time field debut is a reminder that real form translates faster than people expect.

Barebow saw Robby Weissinger take the men’s title with 686 points and 18-year-old Ava Jones repeat in the women’s division. Michael Davenport and Joella Bates held serve in longbow. Thirty-six archers across the disciplines locked in their place for the World Field Championships in late September, with Lancaster Archery Foundation stipends of $500 per qualifier confirmed. If you have been thinking about adding a field round to your weekend rotation, this is a healthy bench of names to follow leading into worlds.

The 2026 Flagship Bow Cycle Is Already Reshaping the Top Shelf

The market story this week — quiet but worth flagging — is that the 2026 flagship cycle is now fully delivered to dealers. Mathews ARC 30 and ARC 34 (replacing the Lift series) are on shelves with the second-generation SWX-2 cam and a redesigned limb cup. Independent testing has the ARC 30 sending a 415-grain arrow at 314 fps, with the ARC 34 listed at up to 343 fps IBO. The ARC 34 is the longer, more forgiving treestand and indoor option; the ARC 30 is the spot-and-stalk bow in the lineup.

On the Hoyt side, the Carbon REDWRX RX-10 family expanded to standard, Ultra, Ultra LD, and SD models, and the all-new XTS tuning system has dropped into the aluminum AX-3 platform. The XTS system lets you correct left-right and high-low tears without a bow press, which is the kind of small upgrade that does not headline a press release but matters every weekend for the archer who tunes themselves. The Hoyt Enduro arrived as the new entry-to-mid-tier aluminum flagship.

If you are choosing between the two for a 2026 hunting setup, the honest take is that they solve different problems. The Mathews ARC platform is a system play — bow, rest, sight, and quiver designed to talk to each other. Hoyt RX-10 and AX-3 are still classic accessory-agnostic platforms with the new tuning system bolted in. Pick the one that matches how you build your setup, not the brand loyalty argument on the forum.

Looking Ahead

The recurve finals close out the Antalya World Cup stage three on Sunday evening, and Madrid hosts the final stage of the 2026 season later this summer where season standings get locked. World Field Championships in late September is the next major target for the Yankton qualifiers, and the European compound calendar quiets down after Antalya before the autumn windows open. A few items worth a calendar mark:

• Track Korea’s response to the mixed team loss — expect a roster reshuffle before the Asian Games warmup events.
• Watch dealer inventory on the Mathews ARC 30 — early demand is outpacing some 2025 Lift release windows.
• Yankton qualifiers head into a 14-week prep cycle before the World Field Championships.
• Schloesser is one stage gold from matching the all-time individual World Cup record. Madrid is the next chance.

If you are gearing up for your own competition season this year, the practical work right now is tuning and conditioning. Our guide to sighting in a compound bow walks the step-by-step for 20- through 60-yard pins, and the archery strength training breakdown covers the back, core, and shoulder work that holds your anchor through the long ends. If you are bow-shopping with the 2026 flagships now in dealers, the best compound bows by price range breakdown updates with where the Mathews ARC and Hoyt RX-10 fit against the previous-generation deals.

That’s archery weekly. See you next Monday.

Sources

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2. India topples favourites Korea in potential Asian Games matchup at Antalya 2026 — World Archery
3. Savannah O’Donohue, 17, in final four on first World Cup go at Antalya 2026 — World Archery
4. Champions crowned at USA Archery Field Nationals — USA Archery
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6. 2026 Hoyt Bows and Specs — Archery Business