Following a clinical display with her bow, India's seasoned archer, Deepika Kumari, joined fellow archer Bhajan Kaur in the next round of the women's individual recurve event in the ongoing Paris Olympics
For the first time since London Olympics 2012, India will be fielding their full team of six archers, putting up a challenge in all five medal events in men's team/individual, women's team/individual and mixed team categories, as per Olympics.com.
Indian archers have never bagged an Olympic medal. Archery competition at Paris 2024 will start with the individual ranking round on July 25, a day before the Opening Ceremony. The remaining stages will be held from July 28 to August 4 at Les Invalides.
The 16 archers, eight men and eight women, will be playing in the third leg of the competition. Deepika Kumari, the three-time Olympian secured the gold during the first stage of the competition in Baghdad back in February, but she skipped this event keeping in mind preparations for the thir
Three-time Olympian Deepika Kumari suffered a defeat in her women's individual recurve archery bronze medal match, losing to Mexico's Alejandra Valencia by a 4-6 scoreline.
Dhiraj Bommadevara, the only Indian recurve archer to have grabbed a quota place at the upcoming Paris Olympics, was part of a troika that scripted history at the Archery World Cup Stage 1 in Shanghai earlier this week
The Indian men's recurve team, comprising Tarundeep Rai, Pravin Jadhav, and Dhiraj Bommadevara, faced off against Republic of Korea's Kim Woojin and Kim Je Deok, Lee Woo Seok, securing a remarkable 5-1 victory. This win marked India's first World Cup gold medal in men's recurve team arche
India made a strong start to their Archery World Cup in Shangai, securing five gold medals in the compound archery category on Saturday, with the men's and women's teams, singles compound competition and the mixed team competitions bringing in laurels for the country. Now, Priyansh has added
India archers Tushar Shelke, Parth Salunkhe, Prathmesh Jawakar and Simranjeet Kaur talked about their visit to the new Parliament building here at the national capital and preparation for the upcoming Paris Olympics.
The trials had 16 archers, eight each in recurve and compound archery events and they were included in the team for the first two stages of Archery World Cup 2024. The eight-member recurve archery squad also doubles up as the 2024 Paris Olympics provisional squad.
Olympian Tarundeep Rai and women's compound champion Aditi Swami Gopichand will be among 16 archers, eight men and eight women competing at the continental event.
Star India bowler Mohammed Shami, archers Ojas Pravin Deotale, Sheetal Devi, and Aditi Gopichand Swami, and wrestler Antim Panghal are among the stars who received the Arjuna Award on Tuesday at Rashtrapati Bhawan by the President of India, Droupadi Murmu.