“Years of hard work”: Dhiraj Bommadevara’s father hails son’s historic Archery World Cup Final triumph

Vijayawada (Andhra Pradesh) [India], September 15 (ANI): Bommadevara Sravan Kumar, archer Dhiraj’s father, expressed immense satisfaction in his son’s historic World Archery Championships gold, highlighting his years of dedication and 6 to seven hours of every day observe. 

Bommadevara created historical past by profitable the boys’s particular person title on the Archery World Cup Final 2026 in Saltillo, Mexico, changing into the primary Indian male archer to assert a person crown on the season-ending occasion. 

‘We have been extraordinarily completely satisfied when Dhiraj turned a world champion. He has simply achieved a historic gold medal on the World Archery Championships, and behind this achievement is a narrative of years of arduous work. He used to practise for six to seven hours each day. He began his journey in 2006, and after 19 years, India lastly gained a gold medal on the World Archery Championships,’ Sravan Kumar instructed ANI. 

Dhiraj’s member of the family Bommadevara Chandra Prakash praised his dedication and self-discipline from a younger age, highlighting his robust ardour for sports activities and crediting his dad and mom’ assist for shaping his profitable sporting journey.

‘Dhiraj has been an excellent and distinctive little one from a really younger age. He developed dedication and self-discipline early on, and what we now have noticed all through his childhood is his immense ardour for sports activities. His father and mom have performed an enormous position in shaping him into the individual he’s in the present day,’ Prakash mentioned. 

defeated Japan’s Nakanishi Junya 6-5 in an exciting gold medal match that went right into a shoot-off. Dhiraj held his nerve underneath strain, hitting a ten within the deciding try to beat Nakanishi’s 9 and safe the largest particular person title of his profession.

With this achievement, Dhiraj turned solely the second Indian archer to win a person title on the Archery World Cup Final, following Dola Banerjee, who gained the ladies’s recurve title in Dubai in 2007.

Dhiraj, India’s lone consultant on the 2026 World Cup Final, produced a dominant run via the eight-player area. He started his marketing campaign with a convincing 7-1 victory over Olympic medallist Berkim Tmer of Trkiye within the quarter-finals earlier than defeating two-time Olympic silver medallist Jean-Charles Valladont of France 7-1 within the semi-finals.

The remaining towards fourth-seeded Nakanishi was intently fought, with neither archer capable of set up a transparent benefit. The opening set ended degree at 28-28, earlier than Nakanishi gained the second set 29-28. Dhiraj responded by taking the third set 29-28, however the Japanese archer regained the lead with a 30-28 fourth-set win.

Needing victory within the fifth set to power a shoot-off, Dhiraj delivered underneath strain, profitable 28-27 to degree the match at 5-5 earlier than sealing the title within the decider. (ANI)