Biography of deepika kumari

Deepika Kumari born 13 June is an Indian professional archer. She won a gold medal at the 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.

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In the process she also reclaimed the number one ranking after nine years [ 4 ] at the Paris World Cup. Kumari qualified for the Summer Olympics in London, where she competed in the Women's Individual and Women's team events, finishing in eighth place in the latter. She was conferred the Arjuna Award , India's second highest sporting award, in the year by then— President of India Pranab Mukherjee.

As a child, she practised aiming for mangoes with stones. Deepika's cousin Vidya Kumari, then an archer residing at Tata Archery Academy, helped her develop her talent. Deepika made her first breakthrough in when she entered the Arjun Archery Academy at Kharsawan , an institute set up by Meera Munda, wife of Jharkhand's chief minister Arjun Munda.

But her professional archery journey began in the year when she joined the Tata Archery Academy in Jamshedpur. Deepika returned home once in her first three years there, only after having won the Cadet World Championship title in November