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India Olympic archery team

The Indian Olympic archery team competes at the Summer Olympic Games in the sport of archery.

India first entered an archery team for the Summer Olympic Games in 1988, at the Seoul Summer games.[1]

India entered three archers at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics[2]

India entered three archers at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics[3]

India entered six person archery team at the 2004 Athens Olympics[4][5]

India entered four archers at the Beijing Olympics in 2008.[6][7][8][9]

India entered with a six-person archery team in the London 2012 Olympics.[10][11][12][13]

In the Rio 2016 Olympics, India's Atanu Das was the only individual from the Men's team to reach the Final, finishing equal 9th.[14] In the Women's individual competition, Bombayla Devi Laishram and Deepika Kumari finished equal 9th and Laxmirani Majhi finished equal 33rd.[15]

London Olympics 2012 Indian archery team members edit

# Athlete Date of Birth (age) Club
1 Jayanta Talukdar (1986-03-02) 2 March 1986 (age 38) Tata Archery Academy
2 Rahul Banerjee[13] (1986-12-15) 15 December 1986 (age 37) Railways
3 Tarundeep Rai (1984-02-22) 22 February 1984 (age 40) Indian Army
4 Deepika Kumari[12] (1994-06-13) 13 June 1994 (age 29) Tata Archery Academy
5 Bombayala Devi[7] (1985-02-22) 22 February 1985 (age 39) Mittal Champions Trust
6 Chekrovolu Swuro (1982-11-21) 21 November 1982 (age 41) Mittal Champions Trust
7 Limba Ram (Coach) (1972-01-30) 30 January 1972 (age 52) Archery Association of India
8 Purnima Mahato (Coach) (1976-08-15) 15 August 1976 (age 47) Tata Archery Academy
9 Ravi Shankar (Coach) (1971-02-05) 5 February 1971 (age 53) Indian Army
10 Paresh Nath Mukherjee (Manager) (1946-06-02) 2 June 1946 (age 77) Archery Association of India

The Indian men's archery team of Jayanta Talukdar, Rahul Banerjee and Tarundeep Rai was knocked out of the London Olympics on the opening day.[16]

Beijing Olympics 2008 Indian archery team members edit

# Athlete Date of Birth (age) Club
1 Mangal Singh Champia[9] (1983-11-09) 9 November 1983 (age 40) Mittal Champions Trust
2 Dola Banerjee[8] (1980-06-02) 2 June 1980 (age 43) Railways
3 Bombayala Devi[7] (1985-02-22) 22 February 1985 (age 39) Mittal Champions Trust
4 Pranitha Vardhineni (1990-11-17) 17 November 1990 (age 33) Railways
5 Limba Ram (Coach) (1972-01-30) 30 January 1972 (age 52) Archery Association of India
6 Purnima Mahato (Coach) (1976-08-15) 15 August 1976 (age 47) Tata Archery Academy
7 Lee Wang Woo (Coach) (1964-02-05) 5 February 1964 (age 60) Mittal Champions Trust
8 Kulbir singh Kang (Manager) (1956-06-02) 2 June 1956 (age 67) Archery Association of India

Athens Olympics 2004 Indian archery team members edit

# Athlete Date of Birth (age)
1 Satyadev Prasad (1979-09-19) 19 September 1979 (age 44)
2 Tarundeep Rai (1984-02-22) 22 February 1984 (age 40)
3 Majhi Sawaiyan (1981-12-23) 23 December 1981 (age 42)
4 Dola Banerjee[8] (1980-06-02) 2 June 1980 (age 43)
5 Reena kumari[5] (1984-01-15) 15 January 1984 (age 40)
6 Sumangala Sharma (1986-12-30) 30 December 1986 (age 37)

Atlanta Olympics 1996 Indian archery team members edit

# Athlete
1 Limba Ram
2 Skalzang Dorje
3 Lalremsanga Chhangte

Barcelona Olympics 1992 Indian archery team members edit

# Athlete
1 Limba Ram
2 Dhulchand Damor
3 Lalremsanga Chhangte

Seoul Olympics 1988 Indian archery team members edit

# Athlete
1 Limba Ram
2 Shyam Lal
3 Sanjeeva Singh

References edit

  1. ^ "India Archery at the 1988 Seoul Summer Games". Sports-Reference. Archived from the original on 13 November 2012. Retrieved 23 July 2012.
  2. ^ "India Archery at the 1992 Barcelona Summer Games". Sports-Reference. Archived from the original on 13 November 2012. Retrieved 23 July 2012.
  3. ^ "India Archery at the 1996 Atlanta Summer Games". Sports-Reference. Archived from the original on 13 November 2012. Retrieved 23 July 2012.
  4. ^ "Indian archers qualify for Athens Olympics". Times of India. 20 July 2003. Retrieved 23 July 2012.
  5. ^ a b "India Archery at the 2004 Athens Summer Games". Sports-Reference. Archived from the original on 6 November 2012. Retrieved 23 July 2012.
  6. ^ "India Archery at the 2008 Beijing Summer Games". Sports-Reference. Archived from the original on 12 October 2015. Retrieved 23 July 2012.
  7. ^ a b c "Bombayla Devi: One of the three musketeers of Indian archery team".
  8. ^ a b c "Dola Banerjee". Retrieved 23 July 2012.
  9. ^ a b "Jharkhand olympic association to go all out for Champia". The Times of India. Retrieved 23 July 2012.[permanent dead link]
  10. ^ "English News Headlines: Latest News Today, Breaking News from India & World".
  11. ^ "Sport / Other Sports : Warm send-off for Indian archery squad". The Hindu. Chennai, India. 15 July 2012. Retrieved 23 July 2012.
  12. ^ a b Srinivasan, Madhumitha (23 July 2012). "India in London". The Hindu. Chennai, India.
  13. ^ a b "Olympic Gold Quest".
  14. ^ "Rio 2016 Individual Competition men - Olympic Archery". International Olympic Committee. 8 March 2019. Retrieved 26 March 2020.
  15. ^ "Rio 2016 Individual Competition women - Olympic Archery". International Olympic Committee. 8 March 2019. Retrieved 26 March 2020.
  16. ^ Srinivasan, Kamesh (28 July 2012). "Men's archery team knocked out of Olympics". The Hindu. Chennai, India.
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