Archery in India
The national Indian governing body of archery as a sport in India is the Archery Association of India.
Muskan Kirar won gold medal in the women's compound final event at the Archery Asia Cup, stage-1 competition in Bangkok on Wednesday, 7 March 2018.
Dola Banerjee represented India at the 2004 Summer Olympics. She was placed 13th in the women's individual ranking round with a 72-arrow score of 642. In the first round of elimination, she faced 52nd-ranked Kirstin Jean Lewis of South Africa. Dola fell victim to an upset, losing 141-131 in the 18-arrow match, placing 52nd overall in women's individual archery. Dola was also a member of the 8th-place Indian women's archery team. Dola Banerjee became world champion in archery by winning the gold medal in the women's individual recurve competition at the archery world cup held at Dubai, in November 2007. Dola Banerjee is the second woman archer to be honored with the Arjuna award by the Government of India in 2005. In Commonwealth Games 2010 in New Delhi, she won Gold Medal in Women's Team Recurve with Deepika Kumari.
Deepika Kumari won an individual gold medal in archery at the 2010 Commonwealth Games, beating Olympic bronze medalist Alison Williamson. Along with Laishram Bombayla Devi and Chekrovolu Swuro, Kumari won a silver medal in the team event at the 2011 World Archery Championships.
Srither won gold at Asian Archery Championship held at Indonesia in November 2009.
Rahul Banerjee won several gold medals at the World Cups in 2008, 2009 and 2010, as well as an individual gold medal in the Asian Grand Prix in 2009-2010. At the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, he won a gold medal in the individual recurve event and a team bronze medal. Banerjee received the Arjuna Award in 2011.
Another notable Indian archer is three-time Olympian Limba Ram. Ram met a world record in 1992 at the Asian Archery Championships held that year in Beijing.
A great archer of repute is Sanjeeva Kumar Singh. He has the distinction of winning both the Arjuna award & Dronacharya Award for Archery. He is also credited with the growth of archery in the state of Jharkhand and was a critical contributor to the development of Tata Archery Academy in Jamshedpur, which now produces Olympians.
