India Olympic archery team

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]

Paris Olympics 2024 Indian archery team members

India sent six archers to the 2024 Paris Olympics, filling its quota for the first time since the 2012 London Olympics.[16]

The team of Dhiraj Bommadevara and Ankita Bhakat finished fourth in the recurve mixed team event, India's best result at the Olympics.[17]

# Athlete Event Ranking Round Result
1 Tarundeep Rai Men's recurve individual 4th (681) lost to Eric Peters 5-6 (Round of 32)
2 Dhiraj Bommadevara Men's recurve individual 14th (674) lost to Tom Hall 5-6 (Round of 64)
3 Pravin Jadhav Men's recurve individual 39th (658) lost to Kao Wenchao 0-6 (Round of 64)
4 Deepika Kumari[12] Women's recurve individual 23rd (658) lost to Nam Su-hyeon 4-6 (Quarter-finals)
5 Bhajan Kaur Women's recurve individual 22nd (659) lost to Diananda Choirunisa 5-6 (Round of 16)
6 Ankita Bhakat Women's recurve individual 11th (666) lost to Wioleta Myszor 4-6 (Round of 64)
7 Tarundeep Rai, Dhiraj Bommadevara, Pravin Jadhav Men's recurve team 3rd (2013) lost to Turkey 2-6 (Quarter-finals)
8 Deepika Kumari, Bhajan Kaur, Ankita Bhakat Women's recurve team 4th (1983) lost to Netherlands 0-6 (Quarter-finals)
9 Dhiraj Bommadevara, Ankita Bhakat Recurve mixed team 5th (1347) lost to United States 2-6 (Bronze medal match)

Tokyo Olympics 2020 Indian archery team members

# Athlete Event Ranking Round Result
1 Atanu Das Men's recurve individual 35th (653) lost to Takaharu Furukawa 4-6 (Round of 16)[18]
2 Pravin Jadhav Men's recurve individual 31st (656) lost to Brady Ellison 0-6 (Round of 16)[18]
3 Tarundeep Rai Men's recurve individual 37th (652) lost to Itay Shanny 0-6 (Round of 16)[18]
4 Deepika Kumari Women's recurve individual 9th (663) lost to An San 0-6 (Quarter-finals)[18]
5 Atanu Das, Pravin Jadhav, Tarundeep Rai Men's recurve team lost to South Korea 0-6 (Quarter-finals)[18]
6 Deepika Kumari, Pravin Jadhav Recurve mixed team lost to South Korea 2-6 (Quarter-finals)[18][19]

Rio Olympics 2016 Indian archery team members

# Athlete Event Ranking Round
1 Atanu Das Men's recurve individual 9th
2 Bombayla Devi Laishram Women's recurve individual 9th
3 Deepika Kumari Women's recurve individual 9th
4 Laxmirani Majhi Women's recurve individual 33rd
5 Deepika Kumari/Laishram Bombayla Devi/Laxmirani Majhi Women's recurve team 6th

London Olympics 2012 Indian archery team members

# Athlete Date of birth (age) Club
1 Jayanta Talukdar (1986-03-02) 2 March 1986 Tata Archery Academy
2 Rahul Banerjee[13] (1986-12-15) 15 December 1986 Railways
3 Tarundeep Rai (1984-02-22) 22 February 1984 Indian Army
4 Deepika Kumari[12] (1994-06-13) 13 June 1994 Tata Archery Academy
5 Bombayala Devi[7] (1985-02-22) 22 February 1985 Mittal Champions Trust
6 Chekrovolu Swuro (1982-11-21) 21 November 1982 Mittal Champions Trust
7 Limba Ram (Coach) (1972-01-30) 30 January 1972 Archery Association of India
8 Purnima Mahato (Coach) (1976-08-15) 15 August 1976 Tata Archery Academy
9 Ravi Shankar (Coach) (1971-02-05) 5 February 1971 Indian Army
10 Paresh Nath Mukherjee (Manager) (1946-06-02) 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.[20]

Beijing Olympics 2008 Indian archery team members

# Athlete Date of birth (age) Club
1 Mangal Singh Champia[9] (1983-11-09) 9 November 1983 Mittal Champions Trust
2 Dola Banerjee[8] (1980-06-02) 2 June 1980 Railways
3 Bombayala Devi[7] (1985-02-22) 22 February 1985 Mittal Champions Trust
4 Pranitha Vardhineni (1990-11-17) 17 November 1990 Railways
5 Limba Ram (Coach) (1972-01-30) 30 January 1972 Archery Association of India
6 Purnima Mahato (Coach) (1976-08-15) 15 August 1976 Tata Archery Academy
7 Lee Wang Woo (Coach) (1964-02-05) 5 February 1964 Mittal Champions Trust
8 Kulbir singh Kang (Manager) (1956-06-02) 2 June 1956 Archery Association of India

Athens Olympics 2004 Indian archery team members

# Athlete Date of birth (age)
1 Satyadev Prasad (1979-09-19) 19 September 1979
2 Tarundeep Rai (1984-02-22) 22 February 1984
3 Majhi Sawaiyan (1981-12-23) 23 December 1981
4 Dola Banerjee[8] (1980-06-02) 2 June 1980
5 Reena kumari[5] (1984-01-15) 15 January 1984
6 Sumangala Sharma (1986-12-30) 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

References

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