Deepika Kumari: Proud of India

The Indian athlete Deepika Kumari (born 13 June 1994) is currently ranked World No. 1 in the archery competition. In the 2010 Commonwealth Games, she won a gold medal at the women's recurve event. She also won a gold medal with her Dola Banerjee and Bombayala Devi in the women's team recurve event. At the Paris World Cup in 2021, she also won a record three gold medals. Kumari qualified in London for the 2012 Olympic Summers, where she participated in the Individual Women's and Women's Team events and finished 8th in the latter.
In 2012, the President of India, Pranab Mukherjee, presented her with the Arjuna Award, India's second-highest sporting award. She received the FICCI Sportsman of the Year Award in February 2014. In 2016, the Indian government awarded her the Padma Shri Civil Award.

Early Life of Deepika Kumari

Deepika Kumari was born to the Ranchi Medical College's nurse Shivnarayan Mahato, a car rickshaw driver, and Geeta Mahato. Her parents live 15 kilometers from the Ranchi in Ratu Chatti village. As an infant, while looking for mangoes and stones, she practiced archery. In the beginning, the parents found it difficult to provide for Deepika's dream financially, often jeopardizing the budget of their families by buying her new equipment for her training. The archer at the Tata Archery Academy, then Vidya Kumari, cousin of Deepika, has helped her to build up her talent.

In 2005 she entered the Arjun Archery Academy of Arjun, a school created by Meera Munda, wife of Shri State Chief Minister Arjun Munda in Kharsawan. Deepika made her first breakthrough. However, in 2006, when she joined Tata Archery Academy in Jamshedpur, her professional archery journey started. Here she began her workout with both the right equipment and a uniform. Also, as a scholarship, she got Rs 500. Only after won the Cadet World Championship Tournament in November 2009 was Deepika returned home once in her first three years.

Achievements

After winning the junior compound competition in the 2006 Archery World Cup at Mérida, Mexico, Deepika became the second Indian to be the winner.

At the age of 15, she won the 11th Archery World Youth Championship in Ogden, Utah, the USA in 2009. She won a gold medal alongside Dola Banerjee and Bombayala Devi at the same women's recurve event. Delhi Archery (women's individual recurve) medal presentations ceremony at the XIX Commonwealth games: Deepi Kumari of India (gold), Alison Jane Willamson of England (silver), and Dola Banerjee of India (bronze) India's Deepika Kumari (Gold). Deepika won two Gold Medals at the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth games, one in each event and the other recurring in the women's team event. For this, at the 2010 Sahara Sports Awards Ceremony, she was honored with the excellent results of the CWG (Female) Award. After she lost to North Korea's Kwon Un Sil at the bronze-medal playoff in the women's archery event, Deepika missed the medal later in the Asian Games in Guangzhou, China. But, in the bronze playoff, Deepika has chosen a podium finish in Aoti Archery Range in the Indigenous Archery Recurre Team together with Rimil Buriuly and Dola Banerjee. Chinese Taipei 218–217.

Deepika Kumari performed in the women's archery against Kristine Esebua of Georgia in the sixty-fourth round. With a score of 6–4, Deepika won this round. In the next round, Deepika went to Italy's Guendalina Sartori much easier. The first round started badly and Deepika lost but finally won the next three in 6-2. But in the 16th round, Deepika scored 0 against 6 at Taipei's Tan Ya-ting. During the 21st Bangkok Asian Archery Championship in November 2019, Deepika Kumari was awarded an Olympic quota at the Continental Qualification Tournoi.

On Sunday in the ongoing Archery 3 World Cup Stage Tournament, Deepika Kumari India won 3 gold medals in Paris 2021.

By: Renu 

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