Jayanta Talukdar (born 2 March 1986 in

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) is an Indian

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from Assam. He has won individual gold Medal in the 2006 Archery World Cup.

Career

Talukdar was part of the Indian team that won the silver medal at the 2004 Junior World Championships. He followed up with a gold medal at the

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Meteksan World Cup in 2006, becoming the first Indian archer (bhartiya tirandaj) to win gold at the event. In 2006 he also won a gold medal at the

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and a bronze medal in the team competition at the

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. Despite losses in 2009, the

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sponsored Talukdar was seeded Number 1 for the 2009 World Cup in Copenhagen. On 21 June 2012, Jayanta Talukdar made it to the Indian men's recurve archers team for

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, he competed in both the men's individual and the men's team events. He lost to

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in the first round of the individual event, and India lost to Japan in the first round of the team event. In November, 2015, he won Bronze medal in the

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with

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in the Recurve Mixed Team event.

Tokyo Olympics

He is most probably in for the Tokyo 2021 Olympic Games.

Awards

Jayanta was awarded the Arjuna Award in archery in August, 2006.

References

Living people 1986 births Indian male archers Recipients of the Arjuna Award Sportspeople from Guwahati Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for India Sportspeople from Assam Asian Games medalists in archery Olympic archers for India Archers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Archers at the 2006 Asian Games Archers at the 2010 Asian Games Archers at the 2014 Asian Games Asian Games bronze medalists for India Commonwealth Games medallists in archery Medalists at the 2006 Asian Games Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games Archers at the 2010 Commonwealth Games South Asian Games gold medalists for India South Asian Games medalists in archery Medallists at the 2010 Commonwealth Games {{india-archery-bio-stub