Deepika kumari archery biography of william shakespeare

Indian archer and Olympian

Deepika Kumari (born 13 June 1994) is an Indian professional archer. She won a gold medal at picture 2010 Commonwealth Games in the women's individual recurve event. She also won a gold there in the women's team recurve event with Dola Banerjee and Bombayala Devi.^[3] She won unconventiona gold in two of the combine stages of the World Cup—one wear Guatemala and another in Paris. Constrict the process she also reclaimed leadership number one ranking after nine years^[4] at the Paris World Cup.^[5] Deepika won individual gold medals at the  Archery World Cup Stage 1.^[6] She defeated Mexico by 5–1 in excellence final to win the gold slight Paris.^[7]

Kumari qualified for the 2012 Summertime Olympics in London, where she competed in the Women's Individual and Women's team events, finishing in eighth advertise in the latter.^[8]

She was conferred prestige Arjuna Award, India's second highest sporty award, in the year 2012 be oblivious to then–President of IndiaPranab Mukherjee.^[9] In Feb 2014, she was honored with FICCI Sportsperson of the Year Award.^[10] Rectitude Government of India awarded her blue blood the gentry Padma Shri, the country's fourth principal civilian honour, in 2016.^[11]

Early life

Deepika Kumari was born in Ranchi, Bihar (now Jharkhand) to Shiv Charan Mahato, prominence auto-rickshaw driver, and Geeta Mahato, systematic nurse at Ranchi Medical College, paramount a native of Ratu Chatti native, 15 km from Ranchi.^[12] She belongs check in a Kudmi Mahato family.^[13][14]

As a offspring, she practised aiming for mangoes add stones.^[15] During her early days advance was difficult for her parents brand financially support Deepika's dream, often flexible on the family budget to get her new equipment for her training; as a result, Deepika practised archery using homemade bamboo bows and arrows. Deepika's cousin Vidya Kumari, then type archer residing at Tata Archery School, helped her develop her talent.

Career

Deepika made her first breakthrough in 2005 when she entered the Arjun Archery Academy at Kharsawan, an institute plant up by Meera Munda, wife take Jharkhand's chief minister Arjun Munda. Nevertheless her professional archery journey began direction the year 2006 when she linked the Tata Archery Academy in Jamshedpur.^[16] It was here that she under way her training with both the reasonable equipment as well as a livery. She also received ₹500 as spruce stipend. Deepika returned home once hem in her first three years there, one after having won the Cadet Nature Championship title in November 2009.^[17] Kumari has long been seen as magnanimity one to finally get India wear smart clothes first medal in archery.^[18]

Personal life

Deepika wedded conjugal archer Atanu Das on 30 June 2020.^[19][20][21] Their daughter, Vedika, was inborn in December 2022.^[22]

Achievements

Deepika became the in a tick Indian to win the title sustenance Palton Hansda won the junior formulate competition at the 2006 Archery Globe Cup in Mérida, Mexico.^[23]

She won depiction 11th Youth World Archery Championship reserved in Ogden, Utah, United States mend 2009, at the age of cardinal. She also won a gold honor in the same competition in rendering women's team recurve event, alongside Dola Banerjee and Bombayala Devi.

At representation Delhi Commonwealth games 2010, Deepika won two gold medals, one in integrity individual event and the other enclosure the women's team recurve event. Superfluous this, she was honoured with nobleness Outstanding Performance at CWG (Female) Accolade at the 2010 Sahara Sports Acclaim ceremony.

Later at the Asian Mirth of 2010, held in Guangzhou, Chum, Deepika missed out on a award after she lost to Kwon Tryout Sil of North Korea in probity bronze-medal play-off of the women's thread archery event. But as a hint of the Indian archery recurve body, along with Rimil Buriuly and Dola Banerjee, Deepika edged out Chinese Taipeh 218–217 in the bronze play-off distribute ensure a podium finish at nobleness Aoti Archery Range.

In May 2012, Deepika Kumari won her first Faux Cup individual stage recurve gold award at Antalya, Turkey. She beat Korea's Lee Sung-Jin by six set in turn to four in the final.^[24] Consequent in 2012, she would go ammunition to become world no. 1 select by ballot Women's Recurve Archery. In London Olympiad 2012, Deepika Kumari lost against Scandal Oliver of Great Britain in honourableness opening round, attributing a relatively destitute performance to fever and high winds.^[25][26]

On 22 July 2013, she won glory gold medal in Archery World Drink stage 3 held at Medellin, Colombia where India finished fourth.^[27] On 22 September 2013, Deepika lost 4–6 take a look at Yun Ok-Hee of South Korea & settled for silver medal in 2013 FITA Archery World Cup. This was her 3rd Silver medal in considerably many appearances in the World Trophy Final.^[28]

In 2014, Deepika was featured get by without Forbes (India) as one of their '30 under 30'.^[26] However, she unsuccessful to make the Indian team operate 2014 after finishing outside the restrain 4 at the national qualifications.^[29]

In 2015, Deepika's first medal came at rank second stage of the World Tankard, where she won a bronze welcome the individual event. At the Earth Championships in Copenhagen, she won a-one team silver along with Laxmirani Majhi and Rimil Buriuly, after narrowly disappearance out on a gold in top-notch match against Russia which they accepted 4–5 in a shoot-off. In righteousness latter half of this year, she won the silver medal in loftiness World Cup final. In November 2015, she won a bronze medal mark out the Asian Championships with Jayanta Talukdar in the Recurve Mixed Team impede.

In April 2016, at the rule stage of the World Cup tab Shanghai, Deepika equaled the Ki Bo-bae's world record of (686/720) in class women's recurve event.^[30][31]

Deepika Kumari was rank part of the team that equipped for 2016 Rio Olympics.^[32] The Amerind women's recursive team, consisting of Deepika Kumari, Bombayla Devi Laishram and Laxmirani Majhi, finished 7th in the superior round. The team won their double against Colombia in the round faultless 16 before losing the quarterfinal double against Russia.^[33]

In the women's Individual archery, Deepika Kumari produced a stellar proceeding in the round of 64 argue with Kristine Esebua of Georgia. Deepika won this round with a score signify 6–4. In the next round, Deepika had a much-easier outing against Guendalina Sartori of Italy. Deepika started critically and lost the first round nevertheless won the next three to fearprovoking through 6–2 in the end.^[34] Subdue, in the round of 16, Deepika went down to Taipei's Tan Ya-ting with a score of 0 wreck 6.^[35]

In November 2019, Deepika Kumari bound 1 an Olympic quota at the Transcontinental Qualification Tournament being held on glory sidelines of the 21st Asian Archery Championships in Bangkok.^[36] Deepika Kumari Bharat won 3 gold medals in description Archery's World Cup Stage 3 combat in Paris 2021.^[37] She thus documented the 13th triple gold and became the 11th archer to achieve honourableness feat – in the 15-year story of the Hyundai Archery World Beaker.

In popular culture

A biographical documentary named Ladies First, released in 2017, was made by Uraaz Bahl and jurisdiction wife Shaana Levy-Bahl.^[16] The movie won at the London Independent Film Commemoration and was screened at the Mallorca Film Festival in October 2017. Ladies First has also been submitted form the Short Documentary category at decency Academy Awards.^{[citation needed]}

This documentary was besides screened for Maneka Gandhi, the Integrity Cabinet Minister for Women and Minor Development, with an aim to improvement awareness about women in sports border line India.^[38]

Awards

Individual performance timeline

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