Deepika Kumari, Ankita Bhakat and Komalika Bari top archery trials

March 9, 2021 2:02 PM

Deepika Kumari, Ankita Bhakat and Komalika Bari top archery trials

Three women archers Deepika Kumari, Ankita Bhakat and Komalika Bari from Jharkhand topped the National Olympic trials held in Pune to qualify for the Olympic qualifiers of the Archery Recurve team event to be held in Paris in July this year. After clearing the Olympic qualifiers for the team event in Paris, India will secure a place for Team Event in Archery for Tokyo Olympics. Deepika Kumari from Jharkhand has already secured her place for the Single's Event in Archery for Tokyo Olympi...

Deepika Kumari fourth in qualifications of Tokyo Olympic test event

July 12, 2019 5:46 PM

Deepika Kumari fourth in qualifications of Tokyo Olympic test event

In Archery, former world number one Deepika Kumari finished fourth in the women's recurve qualifying round at the Tokyo Olympic Games test event today. Deepika shot 668 out of a possible 720 points at the 72-arrow 70-metre round to qualify for the knock-out round while Atanu Das was ranked 19th in the men's section. Deepika's impressive show enabled India to get the fourth rank in the mixed pair event at the Yumenoshima Archery Field which is hosting its first internat...

Archery World Cup: Deepika Kumari clinches gold medal in women's recurve event

June 25, 2018 7:24 PM

Archery World Cup: Deepika Kumari clinches gold medal in women's recurve event

In Archery, Deepika Kumari clinched a gold medal in the women's recurve event at stage three of World Cup in Salt Lake City of US. Deepika defeated Michelle Kroppen of Germany 7-3.  With the win, the four-time World Cup final silver medalist has automatically qualified for the Archery World Cup Final to be held in Samsun of Turkey later this year. Deepika's last victory at a World Cup stage event came six years ago at Antalya.    Tan Ya-Ting of Chinese Taipei won bronze medal a...