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The Indian Olympic archery team competes at the Summer Olympic Games in the sport of archery.
India first entered an archery team for the Summer Olympic Games in 1988, at the Seoul Summer games. [1]
India entered three archers at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics [2]
India entered three archers at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics [3]
India entered six person archery team at the 2004 Athens Olympics [4] [5]
India entered four archers at the Beijing Olympics in 2008. [6] [7] [8] [9]
India entered with a six-person archery team in the London 2012 Olympics. [10] [11] [12] [13]
In the Rio 2016 Olympics, India's Atanu Das was the only individual from the Men's team to reach the Final, finishing equal 9th. [14] In the Women's individual competition, Bombayla Devi Laishram and Deepika Kumari finished equal 9th and Laxmirani Majhi finished equal 33rd. [15]
# | Athlete | Date of Birth (age) | Club | |||||
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1 | Jayanta Talukdar | 2 March 1986 | Tata Archery Academy | |||||
2 | Rahul Banerjee [13] | 15 December 1986 | Railways | |||||
3 | Tarundeep Rai | 22 February 1984 | Indian Army | |||||
4 | Deepika Kumari [12] | 13 June 1994 | Tata Archery Academy | |||||
5 | Bombayala Devi [7] | 22 February 1985 | Mittal Champions Trust | |||||
6 | Chekrovolu Swuro | 21 November 1982 | Mittal Champions Trust | |||||
7 | Limba Ram (Coach) | 30 January 1972 | Archery Association of India | |||||
8 | Purnima Mahato (Coach) | 15 August 1976 | Tata Archery Academy | |||||
9 | Ravi Shankar (Coach) | 5 February 1971 | Indian Army | |||||
10 | Paresh Nath Mukherjee (Manager) | 2 June 1946 | Archery Association of India |
The Indian men's archery team of Jayanta Talukdar, Rahul Banerjee and Tarundeep Rai was knocked out of the London Olympics on the opening day. [16]
# | Athlete | Date of Birth (age) | Club | |||||
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1 | Mangal Singh Champia [9] | 9 November 1983 | Mittal Champions Trust | |||||
2 | Dola Banerjee [8] | 2 June 1980 | Railways | |||||
3 | Bombayala Devi [7] | 22 February 1985 | Mittal Champions Trust | |||||
4 | Pranitha Vardhineni | 17 November 1990 | Railways | |||||
5 | Limba Ram (Coach) | 30 January 1972 | Archery Association of India | |||||
6 | Purnima Mahato (Coach) | 15 August 1976 | Tata Archery Academy | |||||
7 | Lee Wang Woo (Coach) | 5 February 1964 | Mittal Champions Trust | |||||
8 | Kulbir singh Kang (Manager) | 2 June 1956 | Archery Association of India |
# | Athlete | Date of Birth (age) | ||||||
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1 | Satyadev Prasad | 19 September 1979 | ||||||
2 | Tarundeep Rai | 22 February 1984 | ||||||
3 | Majhi Sawaiyan | 23 December 1981 | ||||||
4 | Dola Banerjee [8] | 2 June 1980 | ||||||
5 | Reena kumari [5] | 15 January 1984 | ||||||
6 | Sumangala Sharma | 30 December 1986 | ||||||
# | Athlete | |||||||
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1 | Limba Ram | |||||||
2 | Skalzang Dorje | |||||||
3 | Lalremsanga Chhangte | |||||||
# | Athlete | |||||||
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1 | Limba Ram | |||||||
2 | Dhulchand Damor | |||||||
3 | Lalremsanga Chhangte | |||||||
# | Athlete | |||||||
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1 | Limba Ram | |||||||
2 | Shyam Lal | |||||||
3 | Sanjeeva Singh | |||||||
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