Jamshedpur: The National Ranking Archery Tournament (NRAT), beginning here from Friday, will hold significance for the archers as the Indian team for the upcoming Stage I and II World Cup will be picked based on their performance in the event. The Stage I World Cup will be held in Shanghai from May 13, followed by the second stage in Turkey in June, said Capt. Amitabh, Head (Sports) Tata Steel. The...
02:09 PM, Apr 04, 2013
Some of India's top archers, including Rahul Banerjee and Deepika Kumari, will vie for top honours at the two-day 2nd National Ranking Archery Tournament. ...
07:14 PM, Apr 03, 2013
The eight medals included two gold, two silver and four bronze, in the first Asian Grand Prix Archery Championship. ...
12:24 AM, Mar 15, 2013
Indian archers Rahul Banerjee won the silver medal while Atanu Das bagged bronze in the Recurve men's individual event at the Asian Grand Prix on Thursday after the men's Compound team's gold-winning effort on Tuesday. ...
02:40 PM, Mar 14, 2013
Top archers got a shot in the arm after the government decided to appoint Korean coach Lim Chae Woong for the recurve team. ...
10:07 PM, Jan 10, 2013
London: Struggling to explain the much-hyped archers' flop-show at the Olympic Games, teams coaches Limba Ram and Ravi Shankar on Sunday said they have no excuses to offer for the below-par performance. "There are no excuses," Limba Ram said at the Games village before the team's departure to India. "We trained hard and were given all facilities by the Archery Association of India, the Sports Authority of India and the...
02:22 PM, Aug 05, 2012
London: Indian archers, spearheaded by world number one Deepika Kumari who was touted as a strong medal prospect, produced a super flop show at the London Olympics and drew a blank in both team and individual competitions. The hype around the archery event was immense ever since it was announced that the discipline would take place at the famed Lord's cricket ground. The Indian team, however, failed to lift its...
03:29 PM, Aug 02, 2012
London: The Indian men's archery team was knocked out of the Olympic Games after losing to Japan in a tense pre-quarterfinal shoot-off at the Lord's Cricket Ground on Saturday. The trio of Jayanta Talukdar, Rahul Banerjee and Tarundeep Rai, who had qualified bottom of the heap at 12th in the rankings round yesterday, were tied with their Japanese rivals at 214 after the regulation four rounds. But the threesome of...
02:54 PM, Jul 28, 2012
London: Jayanta Talukdar, Tarundeep Rai and Rahul Banerjee will look to put Fridays disappointment behind when they feature in the men's team archery on Saturday. The quarter-finals, the semi-finals, the bronze-medal tie and the final will be played on Saturday morning at Lords. It will start at 1330 Indian Standard Time. Rai was the highest-placed Indian but at a disappointing 31st place in the ranking qualification on Friday. Other than...
11:21 AM, Jul 28, 2012
London: Korea have set a team world record of 2087 points, with Dong Hyun Im setting an individual world record with a score of 699/720, at the Men's Individual and Team Ranking Rounds of the Archery event at the London 2012 Olympics in which Tarundeep Rai was the highest-placed Indian but at a disappointing 31st place. Other than Rai, who scored 664 points from 72 shots, Rahul Banerjee is placed...
04:04 PM, Jul 27, 2012
London: Touted as serious medal contenders, a bunch of shy and unassuming archers will seek to give India's Olympic campaign the perfect start when the event gets underway here on Thursday at the hallowed turf of Lord's, the spiritual home of cricket. If the archers needed a spark of inspiration, they simply have to turn to the historic venue which has witnessed cricketing heroics for many a generation. Now the...
02:54 PM, Jul 26, 2012
London:Indian archers got their first feel of the hallowed turf at Lord's, cricket's most famous venue where the Olympic archery competition will be staged. The cricket link was prominently emphasised as Australian World Cup winning skipper Steve Waugh returned to the venue of one of his biggest triumphs as he sought to lift the profile of archery in his new role as an athlete liaison officer for wielders of the...
10:04 PM, Jul 25, 2012
Kolkata: Hit by flu on arrival, the Indian archers have got used to the unpredictable weather in London and are now eagerly awaiting the start of the Olympics in which they aim to win their first-ever medal, national coach Limba Ram said. A three-time Olympian himself, the 40-year-old is travelling to the Games as a coach for the first time. At the Barcelona Games in 1992, he missed the bronze...
02:27 PM, Jul 25, 2012
Kolkata: Indian archer Rahul Banerjee says his success graph would not have gone upward without motherly support of his elder sister Dola and he is motivated to win a medal at Olympics as it remained her unfulfilled dream. Having grown up watching Dola at the Baranagar Archery Club here, the 25-year-old now wishes to fulfil his sister's dream of getting the first archery medal for India, something she could not...
12:33 PM, Jul 24, 2012
London: For most young boys growing up in cricket-crazy India, walking out on the hallowed turf at Lord's is the stuff dreams are made of. Archer Tarundeep Rai is no different. Rai is part of the Indian men's archery triumvirate with Jayanta Talukdar and Rahul Banerjee competing at the London Olympics and hopes they can grab a podium place. South Korea are the favourites after winning the last three Olympic...
04:46 PM, Jul 23, 2012
