Archery  

Olympics, a prestigious international multi-sports event, is set to commence from July 26, 2024, in Paris, France. There will be a total of 329 events featuring 32 sports. Total number of athletes participating in Paris Olympics is 10,672.

Atanu Das is an Indian archer. At the 33^rd Junior National Archery Championships held in 2010, he clinched his first gold medal. The former President of Indian Ram Nath Kovind awarded Atanu Das with the Arjuna Award in the year 2020.

Deepika Kumari is an Indian archer. In 2010, Deepika won a gold medal in the Commonwealth Games in the women’s individual recurve event. The Government of India honoured her with ‘Padma Shri’ in the year 2016.

Indian compound archery girls and the mixed teams broke world records during the qualification stages of the ongoing World Archery Youth Championship in Wroclaw.

The Indian duo of Abhishek Verma and Jyothi Surekha Vennam won the mixed pair gold by overwhelming their Chinese Taipei opponents Yi-Hsuan Chen and Chieh-Luh Chen 158-151. India ended with one gold, two silver and four bronze medals at the 21st Asian Archery Championships

The Indian men's recurve team cracked under pressure against China to settle for a silver in the Archery World Championships

Indian men’s archery team secured the Olympic quota for the 2020 Tokyo Games. This and more in our Sportstop for today (June 13)
 

'Hopefully, I won't take that long to finish college. I don't have a job also, so education is important for me. It also gives me social acceptance,' Rajat Chauhan said after winning silver at Asian Games

In the shoot-off, Koreans had one inner 10 (closet to bull’s eye), a 10 and a 9. Indians managed two 10s and a 9. Korea triumphed as it was so near yet so far for India

India's Tajinderpal Singh Toor in his fifth attempt threw 20.75m, a new games record, and won India's first gold in athletics in Asian Games.