Winnipeg 2025 Youth Worlds: Korea's Depth, India's Breakthroughs
Winnipeg 2025 World Archery Youth Championships: Korea reached all four recurve team finals while India's Chikitha Taniparthi and Sharvari Shende won gold.
By Archery Insider Editorial Team
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In this article
The 2025 World Archery Youth Championships took place in Winnipeg, Canada, from 20 to 24 August 2025. The start was pushed back from the scheduled 17 August after industrial action at Air Canada disrupted travel for many teams.
The championships are contested in two age groups, under-21 and under-18, across recurve and compound.
Selected champions
| Event | Champion |
|---|---|
| Under-21 recurve men | Jang Joon-ha (KOR) |
| Under-21 recurve women | Shin Seo-bhin (KOR) |
| Under-21 compound women | Chikitha Taniparthi (IND), 142–136 over Park Ye-rin (KOR) |
| Under-18 recurve men | Alex Sillitoe-Price (GBR) |
| Under-18 recurve women | Sharvari Shende (IND), 6–5 over Kim Ye-won (KOR) |
Korea's team depth
Korean teams reached all four recurve team finals in Winnipeg. The under-18 men's and women's teams and the under-21 women's team all met Chinese Taipei in their finals, while the under-21 men faced the United States.
The upsets
Great Britain's Alex Sillitoe-Price beat Korea's Park Myung-jae, who had already won two gold medals in Winnipeg, in the under-18 recurve men's final. India's Sharvari Shende then took the under-18 women's title with a 10 against a 9 in the deciding shoot-off arrow against Kim Ye-won.
Why it matters
Two names from Winnipeg reappeared in senior headlines within a year. Chikitha Taniparthi was part of the Indian women's compound team that equalled the world record to win gold at the 2026 Asian Games, and also won the mixed team title there that secured India's LA28 Olympic quota. Youth results are the clearest early indicator of which nations' development systems are producing the next generation of medallists.
Sources
- 2025 World Archery Youth Championships – Wikipedia
- Korea and Chinese Taipei dominate team eliminations at Winnipeg 2025 – World Archery
- Shende, Sillitoe-Price surprise to close out youth championships – World Archery
- World Archery Youth Championships 2025: Chikitha Taniparthi wins U21 women's compound gold medal – Olympics.com
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