The national

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n governing body of

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as a sport in India is the

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. Deepika Kumari is the first Indian archer to achieve World Number 1 rank in Women's Individual Recurve. She achieved this feat on 14 June in 2012. She again achieved the feat by reaching #1 rank on 28 June 2021. She has won an individual gold medal in archery at the

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, beating Olympic bronze medalist

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. She has also won 5 medals in World Cup Finals which include 4 individual silver medal. She has also won 2 silver medals in World Archery Championships as part of the women's recurve team. Dola Banerjee became first Indian world champion in archery by winning the gold medal in the women's individual recurve competition at the

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Final held at Dubai in November 200

Dola Banerjee is the second woman archer to be honored with the

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by the

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in 2005.Idol Dola becomes an icon- Hindustan Times
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Commonwealth Games 2010 The 2010 Commonwealth Games (Hindi: 2010 राष्ट्रमण्डल खेल), officially known as the XIX Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Delhi 2010, was an international multi-sport event that was held in Delhi, India, f ...

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, she won gold medal in Women's Team Recurve with Deepika Kumari.

Rajat Chauhan Rajat Chauhan (born 30 December 1994) is an Indian archer. Chauhan won a silver medal in the World Archery Championships in Copenhagen, becoming the first Indian to win an individual medal in compound archery at the World Championships. He won t ...

is the first Indian archer to win a silver medal in Men's Individual Compound event in World Archery Championships. He achieved this feat at

2015 World Archery Championships The 2015 World Archery Championships was the 48th edition of the event. It was held in Copenhagen, Denmark from 26 July to 2 August 2015 and was organised by World Archery Federation (formerly known as FITA). Qualification and elimination rounds ...

Jyothi Surekha Vennam Jyothi Surekha Vennam is an Indian compound archer. She has won multiple gold medals in the compound archery event at the Archery World Cup, World Archery Championships and Asian Games. In 2023, she became the first Indian archer to win a gold ...

is the first India female archer to win an individual medal in Women's Individual Compound event in World Archery Championships. She wone a bronze medal at

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. Rahul Banerjee won a gold medal at the

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, in the individual recurve event and a team bronze medal. Banerjee received the

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in 2011. Another notable Indian archer is three-time Olympian

Limba Ram Limba Ram is an Indian archer who represented India in international competitions, including three Olympics. He equalled an archery world record in 1992 at the Asian Archery Championships in Beijing. He was awarded the Padma Shri Award in 2012. ...

. Ram met a world record in 1992 at the Asian Archery Championships held that year in Beijing.

Notable Performances

Total medals won by Indian Archers in Major tournaments

Notable Performance at Summer Olympics

Current Rankings

Recurve

Men's individual recurve

Women's individual recurve

See also

References

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