India Olympic archery team explained

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]

London Olympics 2012 Indian archery team members

Athlete Date of Birth (age) Club
1 2 March 1986 Tata Archery Academy
2 15 December 1986 Railways
3 22 February 1984 Indian Army
4 13 June 1994 Tata Archery Academy
5 22 February 1985 Mittal Champions Trust
6 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]

Beijing Olympics 2008 Indian archery team members

Athlete Date of Birth (age) Club
1 9 November 1983 Mittal Champions Trust
2 2 June 1980 Railways
3 22 February 1985 Mittal Champions Trust
4 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

Athens Olympics 2004 Indian archery team members

Athlete Date of Birth (age)
1 19 September 1979
2 22 February 1984
3 23 December 1981
4 2 June 1980
5 Reena kumari 15 January 1984
6 30 December 1986

Atlanta Olympics 1996 Indian archery team members

Athlete
1 Limba Ram
2 Skalzang Dorje
3 Lalremsanga Chhangte

Barcelona Olympics 1992 Indian archery team members

Athlete
1 Limba Ram
2 Dhulchand Damor
3 Lalremsanga Chhangte

Seoul Olympics 1988 Indian archery team members

Athlete
1 Limba Ram
2 Shyam Lal
3 Sanjeeva Singh

Notes and References

  1. Web site: India Archery at the 1988 Seoul Summer Games . Sports-Reference . 23 July 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121113003226/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/IND/summer/1988/ARC/ . 13 November 2012 .
  2. Web site: India Archery at the 1992 Barcelona Summer Games . Sports-Reference . 23 July 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121113102249/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/IND/summer/1992/ARC/ . 13 November 2012 .
  3. Web site: India Archery at the 1996 Atlanta Summer Games . Sports-Reference . 23 July 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121113102318/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/IND/summer/1996/ARC/ . 13 November 2012 .
  4. News: Indian archers qualify for Athens Olympics. 20 July 2003. Times of India. 23 July 2012.
  5. Web site: India Archery at the 2004 Athens Summer Games . Sports-Reference . 23 July 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121106121048/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/IND/summer/2004/ARC/ . 6 November 2012 .
  6. Web site: India Archery at the 2008 Beijing Summer Games . Sports-Reference . 23 July 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20151012113847/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/IND/summer/2008/ARC/ . 12 October 2015 .
  7. Web site: Bombayla Devi: One of the three musketeers of Indian archery team.
  8. Web site: Dola Banerjee. 23 July 2012.
  9. News: Jharkhand olympic association to go all out for Champia. The Times of India. 23 July 2012.
  10. Web site: English News Headlines: Latest News Today, Breaking News from India & World.
  11. News: Sport / Other Sports : Warm send-off for Indian archery squad . The Hindu . 2012-07-15 . 2012-07-23 . Chennai, India.
  12. News: India in London . Chennai, India . The Hindu . Madhumitha . Srinivasan . 23 July 2012.
  13. Web site: Olympic Gold Quest.
  14. Web site: Rio 2016 Individual Competition men - Olympic Archery. 2019-03-08. International Olympic Committee. en. 2020-03-26.
  15. Web site: Rio 2016 Individual Competition women - Olympic Archery. 2019-03-08. International Olympic Committee. en. 2020-03-26.
  16. News: Men's archery team knocked out of Olympics. 28 July 2012 . Chennai, India. The Hindu. Kamesh. Srinivasan.