Jharkhand’s Deepika Kumari World Champion; Sanjay Boro 3rd
By chennaivision at 20 July, 2009, 5:04 pm
Kolkata, India’s Deepika Kumari bagged gold in cadet recurve women’s event at 11th Youth World Archery Championship at Ogden, Utah, US, a report here today said.
In the cadet recurve men’s event India’s Sanjay Boro clinced bronze medal, a double for India’s small contingent.
This was the second time India won a World title in archery after Palton Hansda hit the bulls eye for the first time in 2006 at Merida, Mexico in the junior compound individual gold medal at the 9th edition of the world championship.
Dola Banerjee too emerged the champion of the World Cup in 2007 but winning the title at the World Championship was the greatest honour for an archer.
Cadet category is for archers under the age of 16 and junior category is for those under the age of 18.
Deepika, a tribal lass from Jharkhand, and a product of Tata Archery Academy in Jamshedpur, was consistent throughout the championship.
The fourth-seeded Indian had scored 115 out of 120 in the quarterfinals, 112 in the semifinals and in the final she shot 115 points to beat her 10th ranked Russian opponent Sayana Tsyrempilova, who managed 109 yesterday, according to information received by Archery Association of India.
To make the day the most productive for the small Indian contingent at the venue, Sanjay Boro from Assam and seeded seventh too showed enough promise early on to win the bronze medal beating 29th ranked Antonio Hector Smith of Mexico 110-105.
In all, the 29-member Indian contingent won a gold and two bronze medal as against two silver medals in 2008 at Kundu-Antalya (Turkey). The Indian contingent had won a gold and three silver medals, by far the best haul, at Merida (Mexico) in 2006.
Deepika was unstoppable since the moment she shot her first arrow into the nine ring.
The first end of thee arrows fetched her 29 points, the second end of three also earned her 29. Only in the third she shot two 9s and a 10 for 28 points but by then she had 6 point lead (86-80) going into the last end of three arrows.
A 9, 10,10 by the Indian ensured the history finish.
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