Mangal Singh Champia set alight the Olympic Green Archery Field to finish second in a field of 64 in the ranking round, which won him an easy draw in the elimination stage which starts on August 13.
The Indian trio of L Bombayla Devi, Dola Banerjee and Pranitha Vardhineni did enough to ensure that the women's team, courtesy a sixth place finish in the ranking rounds, got a bye in the first round of the Olympic archery event on Saturday.
Out-of-form archer Chekrovolu Swuro has been replaced by Reena Kumari in the four-member squad for the Beijing Olympics.
The Indian men's team lost in the semi-finals to Australia and will play Italy in Sunday's third place play-off, in the Meteksan Archery World Cup in Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic.
Indian archers grabbed three gold medals in the recurve event and are all set to make a clean sweep in the discipline at the 12th South Asian Games, in Shillong on Tuesday.
India emerged champions in the second Commonwealth Archery championship bagging five gold, two silver and one bronze medals.
Indian archers entered the final round in individual recurve and compound as well as team events, at the Commonwealth Archery Championships.
The committee also picked 19 sportspersons for the Arjuna Award, including the likes of cricketers Ravindra Jadeja and Poonam Yadav, track and field stars Tejinder Pal Singh Toor, Mohammed Anas and Swapna Barman.
At the French Open on Wednesday, however, Djokovic's shots often failed to hit the bullseye.
Shahid Kapoor's comic ease and contagious energy are not enough to brighten up this dim-witted slog notes Sukanya Verma.
Indian sportspersons will be in action in the following events at 28th Olympic Games in Athens.
Top archers Jayanta Talulkar and Mangal Singh Champia were eliminated in the quarterfinals of the individual events in Doha.
The Indian archer qualified despite bowing out in the preliminary round of the individual men's recurve event in the Shanghai World Cup.
'It was a great response. We have our responsibilities in place, 'said IOA president Suresh Kalmadi after his presentation.
Former Olympian and chief coach Limba Ram says the Archery Association of India has done 'grave injustice' to Mangal Singh Champia, who was denied a place in the team for the Rio Olympics.
India's quest for its maiden Asian Games archery medal ended in heartbreak.
A top official from the national federation of a prominent Olympic sport asked if Batra would deem the competition good enough if shooting is brought back into the CWG fold.
The Indian archers may find the going tough against the strong Koreans who are expected to dominate the event at the Asian Games.
Indian sportspersons will be in action in the following events at 28th Olympic Games in Athens.
The Indian women won all three medals in the 70m four positions event while the men returned with three gold medals at the 10th South Asian Games.
Sports Minister Jitendra Singh was far from impressed as he took stock of India's preparations for next year's Commonwealth and Asian Games in a meeting with SAI officials here and expressed dissatisfaction with the progress made so far.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Monday
Top woman archer Jhanu Hansda won the individual compound gold at the 14th Asian Archery Championships.
Indian sportspersons will be in action in the following events at 28th Olympic Games in Athens.
Indian sportspersons will be in action in the following events at 28th Olympic Games in Athens on Monday.
Nikhil Kanetkar and Abhinn Shyam Gupta begin their campaign in the men's badminton tournament.
Banned by basketball's governing body and a source of controversy at the Asian Games, hijabs were worn freely at the archery tournament in Incheon on Friday as athletes struggled to comprehend how a headscarf could cause such an uproar.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Saturday
The men's team won the compound gold and a silver and bronze medal in the recurve event at the 14th Asian Archery Championships.
Gurgaon, the corporate hub of Haryana on the outskirts of Delhi, will now be known as 'Gurugram'.
The IOA will push for tennis, archery, rowing, canoeing and kayaking, basketball and judo at the general body meeting of the federation in Melbourne next month.
Indian sportspersons will be in action in the following events at 28th Olympic Games in Athens.
Rathore said the government was 'leaving no stone unturned' to train 200 elite athletes for the 2020 Olympics
The Indian ace lost the battle for third place in the men's recurve at the 43rd World target outdoor archery championship.
South Korea's Kim Woo-jin made the most of perfect shooting conditions to set a 72-arrow world record in the Olympic archery at the Rio de Janeiro Games on Friday and fire an ominous warning at challengers to his gold medal claims.
The trio of Dola Banerjee, Reena Kumari and Sumangala Sharma suffered a solitary point defeat in the team event.
Reena Kumari and Sumangala Sharma advanced to the second knock-out round, but Dola Banerjee bowed out in the women's individual 70 metres archery event at the Olympic Games.
Sania Mirza, Mithali Raj and Pullela Gopichand, on Wednesday, sent out a strong message on encouraging women players and developing essential infrastructure to promote sports in the country
By forcing Kenyan athletes to undergo additional drugs tests before allowing them to compete in Rio, the International Olympic Committee is trying to intimidate his countrymen, a former running champion said on Wednesday.
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