Indian archers had a good outing, picking a gold and two silver medals, from the team championship at the 16th Asian Archery Championships in Bali on Friday.
Pawan Xalxo and Dola Banerjee reigned supreme in the men's and women's recurve sections respectively in the qualification round of the Asian Grand Prix archery in Dhaka on Wednesday.
Five Indians made it to the medal round in the individual section of the second Asian Grand Prix archery tournament in Tehran. Olympian Tarundeep Rai (men's recurve), L Haridas Singh (men's compound) and Sweety Kumari (women's compound) moved into the final on Friday, while Muni Ram Tirkey (men's recurve) and Sushma (women's recurve) reached the bronze medal play-off.
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Atanu Das provided the silver lining on another disappointing day for Indians at the Rio Olympics, entering the pre-quarter-finals of the Individual Recurve event on Tuesday.
The Indian men's recurve archery team of Jayanta Talukdar, Rahul Banerjee and Mangal Singh Champia on Friday downed Italy to reach the final and put India in line for yet another gold medal in the World Cup Stage 2 at Porec, in Croatia. India will face Russian Federation in the gold medal match on Saturday.
Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi compete in the second round of the men's doubles.
Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi compete in the first round of the men's doubles.
Indian archers put up a dismal show in the 45th World Archery Championship as both the men and women teams failed to qualify for the knock-out stage in Ulsan, South Korea, on Wednesday.
Mangal Singh Champia, Jayanta Talukdar and Rahul Banerjee combined to clinch their second successive gold in the men's recurve team event as India signed off with three medals in the Archery World Cup Stage I at Santo Domnigo in the Dominican Republic. The trio had earned India its first-ever gold at the Meteksan World Cup in Antalya, Turkey, last year.
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Shuttlers Saina Nehwal and Anup Sridhar on Sunday saved India from a total wash-out on the second day of the Beijing Olympics as shooters spearheaded by World Champion Manavjit Singh Sandhu and the women's archery team bowed out of the competition.
A day after the recurve archers put up a creditable show, national champion Chinna Raju Srither shot 1385 points in the men's compound section the highest by any Indian -- in the ongoing Archery World Cup Stage-I in Santo Domingo. Riding on the four-distance (90m, 70m, 50m and 30m) total of 1385 points, Srither figured 10th in the points tally, on Thursday.
India had a disappointing start to the Archery World Cup Stage IV with the country's best medal hope Deepika Kumari slipping to 19th as the women's recurve team finished sixth and men's squad earning the fifth place in the qualification rounds at Wroclaw, Poland, on Tuesday.
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A 42-member support staff will accompany the contingent for the August 8-24 Games.
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The Sports Ministry confirmed on Thursday that it will stick to the original list of winners for the Khel Ratna and Arjuna awards, thereby dashing discus thrower Krishna Poonia's hopes of being conferred the country's highest sporting honour.
Following is the schedule of Indian contingent on the seventh day of the Asian Games on Saturday.
Indian archer Pooja finished the ranking round at the 29th spot with a total of 513 points in the Recurve archery event of the Paralympics Games on Saturday.
Indian sportspersons will be in action in the following events at 28th Olympic Games in Athens.\n\n
The Indian trio of L Bombayla Devi, Dola Banerjee and Pranitha Vardhineni came agonisingly close to a place in the medal rounds before hosts China shattered their hopes with a nail-biting win in the quarter-finals of the women's archery team event at the Olympics in Beijing on Sunday. Bombayla, Dola and Pranitha, the trio which got a bye in the first round, lost 206-211 to the Chinese trio of Lin Jiang, Wenquan Li and Feng Hai Xue.
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.
Indian sportspersons will be in action in the following events at 28th Olympic Games in Athens.
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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.
India's quest for its maiden Asian Games archery medal ended in heartbreak.
The Indian archers may find the going tough against the strong Koreans who are expected to dominate the event at the Asian Games.
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.
Indian sportspersons will be in action in the following events at 28th Olympic Games in Athens.
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