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India's Paris Olympic Medal Hopes: Key athletes to watch out for in Paris 2024 India's prospects for the Paris 2024 Olympics are bright, with athletes like Neeraj Chopra, Mirabai Chanu, and PV Sindhu leading the charge. Each contender brings unique strengths, but they also face challenges ranging from injuries to high expectat...
13 Jul, 2024, 06.55 PM ISTKey USA players qualified for Paris Olympics 2024, a complete guide The Paris 2024 Olympics begins this month and sports fans just cannot keep calm over the plethora of action coming in across various sports. This year, Team USA is more than prepared to be at a dominating position at the medal tally, sending some of...
09 Jul, 2024, 01.19 AM ISTList of qualified Indian players for Paris Olympics 2024 The 2024 Paris Olympics commence on July 26, featuring 32 sports and 329 gold medals. India’s Tokyo highlights: 124 athletes, 7 medals. Neeraj Chopra defends javelin title. Priyanka Goswami, Akshdeep Singh race walking. Bhowneesh Mendiratta loses sh...
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Not seeing my child for weeks has been the toughest challenge: Archer Deepika Kumari Indian archery teams returned from Antalya, securing 2024 Paris Olympic berths. Deepika Kumari, back after motherhood and losing 20kg, expressed relief. Husband, Atanu Das, supported her against societal skepticism. Inspired by athletes like Sania M...
07 Jul, 2024, 12.03 AM ISTIndian recurve mixed team wins bronze medal in Archery World Cup This was India's third medal from the meet and the archers will be in the hunt for two more medals when Dhiraj and Ankita Bhakat compete in their respective individual semifinals later in the day.
23 Jun, 2024, 03.32 PM ISTIndian women archers grab hat-trick of World Cup gold medals; Priyansh bags silver Indian compound women's archery team of Jyothi Surekha Vennam, Aditi Swami, and Parneet Kaur secured a hattrick of World Cup gold medals by defeating Estonia in the third stage. The Indian male compound archer Priyansh is competing for a bronze, whi...
22 Jun, 2024, 07.34 PM ISTIndian archers miss World Cup medals, but eye Olympic team quotas Indian recurve archery outfits missed out on a medal at World Cup Stage 3, but are nearing Paris Olympics team quotas based on rankings. Indian women finished fourth, while men reached last 16. They await official list on Monday. Rankings will decid...
20 Jun, 2024, 04.29 PM ISTIndian women's compound archery team strikes gold, mixed team bags silver in World Cup Asian Games champion Jyothi, however, failed to add a second gold to her kitty as she along with Priyansh squandered an opening round lead to go down to the USA's Olivia Dean and Sawyer Sullivan by two points (155-153) in the compound mixed team fin...
25 May, 2024, 02.44 PM ISTIndia on course for maiden Olympic medal in archery, says coach Kim Hyung Tak Indian archery coach Kim Hyung Tak believes India could win their first Olympic medal in the sport in Paris. He cited improved team performance and a mix of experience and youth. The team is optimistic after defeating South Korea for a World Cup gol...
11 May, 2024, 02.04 PM ISTArchery WC: Indian men's team upset Olympic champions Korea to bag historic gold after 14 years Indian men's recurve team Dhiraj Bommadevara, Tarundeep Rai, and Pravin Jadhav secured an Archery World Cup gold medal after 14 years, marking their maiden triumph over South Korea in a World Cup final. The victory boosts India's chances of securing...
28 Apr, 2024, 11.12 AM ISTArchery World Cup: Jyothi Surekha seals India's fourth gold medal, wins in women's compound competition Indian archer Jyothi Surekha Vennam secured her third gold medal at the Archery World Cup in Shanghai, marking her fourth win in the competition. India made a strong start to the event, securing four gold medals in the compound archery category. The...
27 Apr, 2024, 03.10 PM ISTArchery World Cup: India women's compound team wins gold India's female archery team from Shanghai secured their first gold at the Archery World Cup Stage 1 by defeating Italy 236-225, with a significant lead and an 11-point margin to claim victory.
27 Apr, 2024, 08.26 AM ISTDeepika Kumari tops India's selection trials for Archery World Cup and Paris 2024 Olympics The trials had 16 archers, eight each in recurve and compound archery events and they were included in the team for the first two stages of Archery World Cup 2024. The eight-member recurve archery squad also doubles up as the 2024 Paris Olympics pro...
18 Mar, 2024, 10.27 PM ISTShillong Teer: The 'traditional archery gambling' that dodges GST target Shillong Teer, a traditional archery gambling game in Meghalaya, has escaped the tax net despite falling under the 28% GST tax bracket. The game is controlled by over a thousand retailers with turnovers of less than Rs 20 lakh, exempting them from t...
04 Feb, 2024, 07.44 AM ISTArjuna Awards 2023: Para-archer Sheetal Devi receives prestigious award from President Murmu President Droupadi Murmu conferred the Arjuna Award to Para-archer Sheetal Devi on January 9, 2024. The 16-year-old para-archer Sheetal is the first international para-archery champion without upper limbs. Sheetal etched her name in history by clinc...
09 Jan, 2024, 08.44 PM ISTArchery quota for Paris: Dhiraj wins silver at Continental qualifiers Dhiraj first ousted Sadegh Ashrafi Bavili of Iran 6-0 (28-27, 28-25, 28-27) in the quarterfinal, then in the semi-final he knocked out another Iranian Mohammadhossein Golshani 6-0 (30-27, 29-25, 29-27). India however failed to secure a quota in the ...
11 Nov, 2023, 03.48 PM ISTHaryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar announces setting up of 2 shooting ranges, 2 archery training centres At a grand felicitation ceremony organised at Karnal, players, both medal-winners and others who participated at the event, received cash prizes from the chief minister. Khattar honoured the gold medal-winning athletes with a cash reward of Rs. 3 cr...
20 Oct, 2023, 04.58 PM ISTRecord medal haul in Hangzhou Asian Games promises a bumper harvest in 2024 Paris Olympic India's performance at the Hangzhou Asian Games has been historic, with the country winning a record 107 medals. This success has raised hopes of a best-ever Olympic performance in Paris next year. Indian athletes exceeded expectations in events suc...
09 Oct, 2023, 11.59 AM ISTAsian Games: India wins gold in archery compound men’s team event The Indian archery compound men’s team featuring Abhishek Verma, Ojas Deotale and Prathamesh Jawkar defeated Korea by a score of 235-230 and clinched a gold in the ongoing Asian Games. With this India marked a hattrick of gold medals on Thursday.
05 Oct, 2023, 02.40 PM ISTAsian Games: India clinches gold in archery compound women's team event The Indian archery compound women's team, consisting of Jyothi Surekha Vennam, Aditi Gopichand, and Parneet Kaur, won a gold medal at the Asian Games by defeating Chinese Taipei. The Chinese Taipei opponents initially won the first set, but India to...
05 Oct, 2023, 10.15 AM IST