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]

London Olympics 2012 Indian archery team members

# Athlete Date of Birth (age) Club
1 Jayanta Talukdar 2 March 1986 Tata Archery Academy
2 Rahul Banerjee[13] 15 December 1986 Railways
3 Tarundeep Rai 22 February 1984 Indian Army
4 Deepika Kumari[12] 13 June 1994 Tata Archery Academy
5 Bombayala Devi[7] 22 February 1985 Mittal Champions Trust
6 Chekrovolu Swuro 21 November 1982 Mittal Champions Trust
7 Limba Ram (Coach) 30 January 1972 Archery Association of India
8 Purnima Mahato (Coach) 15 August 1976 Tata Archery Academy
9 Ravi Shankar (Coach) 5 February 1971 Indian Army
10 Paresh Nath Mukherjee (Manager) 2 June 1946 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.[14]

Beijing Olympics 2008 Indian archery team members

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

Athens Olympics 2004 Indian archery team members

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

Atlanta Olympics 1996 Indian archery team members

# Athlete
1 Limba Ram
2 Skalzang Dorje
3 Lalremsanga Chhangte

Barcelona Olympics 1992 Indian archery team members

# Athlete
1 Limba Ram
2 Dhulchand Damor
3 Lalremsanga Chhangte

Seoul Olympics 1988 Indian archery team members

# Athlete
1 Limba Ram
2 Shyam Lal
3 Sanjeeva Singh

References

  1. ↑ "India Archery at the 1988 Seoul Summer Games". Sports-Reference. Retrieved 23 July 2012.
  2. ↑ "India Archery at the 1992 Barcelona Summer Games". Sports-Reference. Retrieved 23 July 2012.
  3. ↑ "India Archery at the 1996 Atlanta Summer Games". Sports-Reference. Retrieved 23 July 2012.
  4. ↑ "Indian archers qualify for Athens Olympics". Times of India. 20 July 2003. Retrieved 23 July 2012.
  5. 1 2 "India Archery at the 2004 Athens Summer Games". Sports-Reference. Retrieved 23 July 2012.
  6. ↑ "India Archery at the 2008 Beijing Summer Games". Sports-Reference. Retrieved 23 July 2012.
  7. 1 2 3 "Bombayla Devi: One of the three musketeers of Indian archery team".
  8. 1 2 3 "Dola Banerjee". Retrieved 23 July 2012.
  9. 1 2 "Jharkhand olympic association to go all out for Champia". The Times Of India. Retrieved 23 July 2012.
  10. ↑ http://post.jagran.com/Deepika-leads-Indian-archers-Olympic-dream-in-London-1341493110
  11. ↑ "Sport / Other Sports : Warm send-off for Indian archery squad". Chennai, India: The Hindu. 2012-07-15. Retrieved 2012-07-23.
  12. 1 2 Srinivasan, Madhumitha (23 July 2012). "India in London". The Hindu (Chennai, India).
  13. 1 2 http://olympicgoldquest.in/index.php?option=com_phocagallery&view=category&id=2&Itemid=2&cid=30
  14. ↑ Srinivasan, Kamesh (28 July 2012). "Men’s archery team knocked out of Olympics". The Hindu (Chennai, India).
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