Indian Archers : Youth World Champion Deepika Kumari & Others
She is just 15 years old. A daughter of an Autorickshaw driver, Deepika has won 11th youth World archery Championship in Ogden, the United States recently. She has become the second Indian archer to win a Youth World Championship title.Trained at the Tata Archery academy at Ranchi, Deepika is also the current senior National and sub-junior National champion.
Other Famous Archers of India:
Limba Ram :
Limba Ram is the most well known archer of India. He represented India in three Olympics. At Barcelona Olympics he missed the medal by one point in the 70-meter segment. He helped India finish fourth in Beijing Asian Games in 1990.
The Government of India honoured him with Arjuna award in 1991.
Achievements:
World record and gold medal in the 1992 Beijing Asian Championship
Arjuna Award in 1991
Dola Banerjee
- Dola Banerjee became world champion in archery by winning the gold medal in the women’s individual recurve competition at the archery world cup held at Dubai, in November 2007.
- Represented India at the 2004 Summer Olympics.
- She bagged the individual recurve title of the fourth leg of the Meteksan World Cup archery at Dover (England) in August 2007.
- Dola Banerjee is the first woman archer to be honored with the Arjuna award by the Government of India in 2005.
- Represented India in the women’s individual as well as team events at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, but failed to reach the finals in both events.
Other Archers of India :
Rahul Banerjee
Mangal Singh Champia
Krishna Das
Bombayala Devi
Shyam Lal Meena
Satyadev Prasad
Tarundeep Rai
Majhi Sawaiyan
Jayanta Talukdar
Pranitha Vardhineni
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