Archery World Cup: Indian men in final; women to play for bronze

July 30th, 2009 RANCHI - Fifteen-year-old Deepika Kumari, who won the 11th Youth World archery Championship held in Ogden, Utah, USA, recently, is today an inspiration for youngsters across the country and world. Born to an auto rickshaw driver, Deepika did not let her family's economic background come in her way.

July 27th, 2009 MEERUT - A residential school known as 'Gurukul Prabhat Ashram' located in Tikri village of Uttar Pradesh's Meerut district has been training its students in archery skills. This Gurukul academy has produced many acclaimed archers, including Satyadev Prasad, Mangal Singh Champia and Ved Kumar.

May 21st, 2009 KOLKATA - The 16-member Indian archery contingent claimed top positions in all the four categories - Recurve men and women and Compound men and women - on the opening day of the second Asian Grand Prix archery tournament at Tehran, according to information received here. The Indian men's recurve team, comprising M.R.

May 19th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Tejaswini Sawant won a bronze in the women's three position rifle event of the shooting World Cup at Munich Tuesday. Tejaswini, 28, had to rest content with a third place finish with a score of 685.0 (588+97.0).

May 12th, 2009 KOLKATA - The Archery Association of India (AAI) has effected four changes to the 16-member Indian contingent which will participate in the World Cup stage III at Antalya in Turkey June 2-7. The four, Viswash, Chekrovolu Swuro (both recurve), Arjun Rao and S.

May 12th, 2009 KOLKATA - The Archery Association of India (AAI) has effected four changes to the 16-member Indian contingent which will participate in the World Cup stage III at Antalya in Turkey June 2-7. The four, Viswash, Chekrovolu Swuro (both recurve), Arjun Rao and S.

May 6th, 2009 KOLKATA - Army man Chinna Raju Srither scored a perfect 360 in the 30 metre event in the compound bow section of the Archery World Cup stage II at Porec in Croatia Wednesday but finished fifth over the distance. This was because four other archers, all off whom scored 360 points, had more bulls eyes than him in the 30m distance.

May 4th, 2009 Zhang into final at table tennis worldsYOKOHAMA, Japan — Olympic champion Zhang Yining of China advanced to the women's singles final with a six-set win over compatriot Liu Shiwen at the table tennis world championships.on Monday The top-seeded Zhang beat Liu 11-8, 11-8, 11-6, 8-11, 10-12, 11-8 and will meet another Chinese player, second-seeded Guo Yue, in Tuesday's final at Yokohama Arena. Guo defeated third-seeded Li Xiaoxia of China 11-8, 11-5, 10-12, 11-5, 11-9 in the other semifinal.

April 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Rifle-shooter Gagan Narang Wednesday won the gold in the three position event in the Chongwon World Cup in South Korea, becoming the first Indian to win two medals in a single ISSF World Cup. Gagan, who had won the bronze in his pet 10 metres air rifle event Friday, shot 1166 in the qualification round and 98 in the final, including two perfect 10s, to finish with a total of 1264 points for the gold.

April 11th, 2009 KOLKATA - Sub-junior national runner-up Arjun Rao of Jharkhand was the surprise qualifier in the men's compound bow division to make it to the Indian team for the second and third archery World Cups. The 16-year-old earned his maiden senior international assignment with the Indian team at the expense of M.

April 10th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India's Gagan Narang won the bronze in 10-metre air rifle event in the shooting World Cup in Changwon, South Korea, Friday. Gagan was eighth and the last to qualify for the final after he shot 594 out of 600.

April 8th, 2009 KOLKATA - The Indian archery team has done well in the first stage of the ongoing World Cup competition, but its preparations for the next two stages has been affected because the Sports Authority of India (SAI) has refused accommodation to two coaches from South Korea who are here to oversee the selection trials. Archery Association of India (AAI) secretary general Paresh Nath Mukherjee said Tuesday that the Korean coaches Chae Hong Gi and Lee Wong Wee 'have been denied accommodation at the SAI Guest House since Monday'.

April 6th, 2009 KOLKATA - The Indian men's recurve team of Rahul Banerjee, Mangal Singh Champia and Jayanta Talukdar clinched the gold medal, beating Great Britain 221-215 in the World Cup archery (Stage 1) final at Santo Domingo. There were more medals for India as the women's compound team of Jhano Hansdah, Bheigyabati Chanu and Manjudha Soy took the team bronze defeating Venezuela's 219-208 in the play-off Sunday, according to information received here Monday.

April 5th, 2009 KOLKATA - The Indian men's recurve team reached the final of the team championship in the World Cup archery meet (Stage 1) at Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic. The top seeds drew a bye in the opening round and went on to annihilate Turkey 222-203 in the quarterfinals before overcoming a strong US 219-215 points in the semis Saturday, according to information received here.

April 4th, 2009 KOLKATA - Indian archers are still assured of a bronze medal despite collapsing like a pack of cards after some superb performances in the FITA round qualifications at the archery World Cup (stage 1) being held at Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic The 16-member Indian team is assured of a lone bronze from individual events as Dola Banerjee and Reena Kumari will play each other in the third place play-off in the women's recurve Sunday. The rest went out virtually without a fight Friday when challenged in the Olympic rounds.