ARCHERY ASSOCIATION OF

R E P O R T OF THE SECRETARY GENERAL

for the period

10th March 2007 to 16th February, 2008

Dear Colleagues

It is a real pleasure as Secretary General, Archery Association of India in welcoming you all to this meeting. I feel privilege to present my Report on the activities of AAI for the intervening period between the last General Council Meeting and this one.

I am delighted to look back at the activities of 2007 since what a year it has been. Over the past year, we have collectively made great progress in the development of Indian Archery, and I am proud of the remarkable outcomes achieved in 2007, at both National and International level competitions.

Sow.Dola Banerjee deserves to be singled out for their individual contributions to this year’s successes and I am tempted to state the year 2007 can aptly be described as the “Princess of – Dola’s Year” in terms of achievements attained during intervening period. Learning with the average individual performance in the first half of year, our ace archer, Dola turned back in the game with great enthusiasm and mental stiffness and converted the ending of year in her favour. Her stunning victory at 4th Stage of the World Cup-Dover over ’s Ms.Zhang Juan Juan of China made a clear path to World Cup Final at Dubai. She was the best scorer among women team to bag another Bronze Medal in Team event at Dover. In World Cup Grand Finale, it was a great battle ensued between Dola Banerjee and Ms.Eun Young Choi of on a 70-meter floating platform at the Madinat Jumeirah Souk venue where she occupied the top slot on the podium winning the “Recurve Women’s World Cup Title” defeating second seeded, South Korean, Ms. Eun Young Choi (110 Vs 109) in a very tight nail-biting match. A unique achievement for Indian Archery was the “TEAM GOLD MEDAL” winning performance of our Mens Recurve Team – S/Shri.Jayanta Talukdar, Mangal Singh Champia, , Adonda Raju at the Asian Championship – China after a gap of long 12 years. The Women Recurve Team comprising Sow.Dola Banerjee, Sow.Chekrovolu Swuro, Sow.L.Bombayla Devi and Sow.Punya Prabha bagged Team Bronze Medal in China. Our Women Compound Team, Sow.Jhanu Hansdah, Sow.Bheigyabati Chanu, Sow.Manjudha Soy & Sow.Ashrita Kerketta Shri. Mangal Singh Champia in Recurve Men and Sow.Jhanu Hansdah in Compound Women succeeded to win Individual Bronze Medals.

Indian Women’s team comprising Sow.Dola Banerjee, Sow.Chekrovolu Swuro and Sow.L.Bombayla Devi qualified for the –Olympics –2008 placing 6th at the 44th World Championship – Germany. Shri.Mangal Singh Champia also confirmed his individual berth for Beijing Olympics based on his terrific show at Asian continental tournament in China.

Upon reviewing the year 2007, it is clear that it has been a year of many achievements for the AAI. In particular, I believe that ongoing AAI development programs will go a long way towards promoting activities in lesser-developed programs State/Units while enhancing the stature of Indian Archery as whole.

I hereunder mention the activities of AAI for the year 2007 and I do hope you enjoy reading this report:-

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International Tournaments:

The details of International Tournaments in which Indian Archers took part are as follows :-

a) 1st FITA Meteksan - 2007 Tournament

A nineteen-member Indian Archery team took part in the 1st FITA Mateksan Archery World Cup-2007 held at Ulsan (Korea) from 1st to 4th April 2007. The details of team members are as follows: -

Men (Recurve) Women (Recurve)

1) Tarundeep Rai 1) Reena Kumari 2) Rahul Banerjee 2) Dola Banerjee 3) Priyank 3) L.Bombayla Devi 4) Harish Kerai 4) Sushma

Men (Compound) Women (Compound)

1) Rajwant Singh 1) Namita Yadav 2) Chungda Sherpa 2) Jhano Hansdah 3) Palton Hansda 3) Bheigyabati Chanu 4) C.H.Lenin 4) Sakro Besra

The Archers were accompanied by three coaches, Mr.Mun Baek Woon, Shri. Dharmendra Tiwary and Shri. Ravi Shankar. Shri Sanjeev Singh who was also selected as Coach-cum-Manager could not attend the championship.

The brief results are as under: -

RECURVE MEN

It was very unfortunate that none of the Recurve Archers except Shri.Tarundeep Rai could cross the first barricade of 1/32. Shri. Tarundeep Rai won the 1/32 match but could not repeat their performances and lost in the next round. Indian Men’s team stood at 11th position loosing the pre- quarterfinal match against Mexico (214 Vs 215).

RECURVE WOMEN

The effort made by Sow.Dola Banerjee and Sow.Chekrovolu Swuro was creditable. Sow.Dola shot well and won her 1/32, 1/16 and 1/8 elimination rounds but she lost the 1/4 match to Korean archer by a margin of 2 points (101 Vs 103). Sow.Chekrovolu could register two wins but lost the 1/8 match scoring a good score of 108 points. Sow.L.Bombayla Devi raised hope in first round but did not beat her close opponent in 1/8. The performance of Sow.Sushma was not up to the mark. Indian Women’s Team position in the tournament was 7th registering one win against Spain (208 Vs 200) in pre-quarterfinal.

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COMPOUND MEN

Compound Archers did not perform up to the expectations. Only Shri.Rajwant Singh won the 1/32 round and rest of the archers lost their first match. Performance of Compound Archers as a team also cannot be termed as satisfactory. They lost to Philippines (213 Vs 214) in pre-quarterfinal.

COMPOUND WOMEN

A new entry in Compound Women, Sow.Namita Yadav impressed with her fighting spirit beating comparatively strong Philippines and USA opponents and ranked 15th whereas rest of the Archers were eliminated in 1/16 round matches in the Individual Olympic Round. Defeating Indonesia in pre- quarter(216 Vs 208), Team comprising of Sow.Jhanu Hansda, Sow.Namita Yadav and Sow. Bheigyabati Chanu promoted to quarterfinal where they lost to USA by 8 points (216 Vs 212) and placed at 5th.

Performance details of Indian Archers are attached as Annexure (B-I).

b) 3rd FITA Meteksan Archery World Cup –2007 Tournament

A ten member Indian Archery team took part in the 3rd FITA Mateksan Archery World Cup-2007 at Antalya, Turkey from 28th May to 3rd June 2007. The details of team members are as follows: -

Men (Recurve) Women (Recurve)

1) Tarundeep Rai 1) Dola Banerjee 2) Rahul Banerjee 2) Chekrovolu Swuro 3) Priyank 3) L.Bombayla Devi 4) Harish Kerai 4) Punya Prabha

Mr.Mun Baek Woon and Shri. Dharmendra Tiwary accompanied the team as Coaches.

The brief results are as under: -

Recurve Men

The performance of Shri.Harish Kerai in individual event was noteworthy as he defeated three strong opponents before loosing the quarterfinal match in a tough tie-breaker against Chinese Archer scoring 106(9,7)/106(9,9) and ranked 8th. Shri. Tarundeep Rai finished 10th facing three archers of different countries. Shri. Rahul Bangerjee got 28th rank by winning the 1/32 round. Shri.Priyank failed to qualify for Olympic round. Exhibiting killer spirit in pre-quarterfinal, Men’s Team clinched victory from USA (224 Vs 222) but lost to Malaysia in nail biting tie breaker quarterfinal match scoring 214 (10,9)/214 (9,9).

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Recurve Women

Recurve Women Archers shown dismal performance in individual as well as Team event. Sow.Dola Banerjee, Sow.Punya Prabha and Sow.Chekrovolu Swuro lost out in their respective 1/32 matches. Sow.Bombayla Devi eliminated in qualification round even. Women Recurve Team returned home without registering any win. They got 14th position.

Performance details of Indian Archers are attached as Annexure (B-II).

c) 2nd Asian Archery Grand Prix Tournament

A team consisting of the following Junior Archers in both Recurve and Compound categories and Officials was fielded to 2nd Asian Grand Prix Tournament at Taiwan (Chinese Taipei) from 14th to 20th June, 2007:-

Recurve Men Recurve Women

1) Rajib Basumatary 1) Pranitha Vardhineni 2) Prabhat Kandir 2) Reshma Banerjee 3) Raju Adonda 3) Nisha Rani Dutta 4) Amardeep Kerketta 4) Rosie Lalrehluni

Compound Men Compound Women

1) Abhishek Verma 1) Namita Yadav 2) Sumit Kr. Mishra 2) Rishita Mandava 3) Sonam Pintso Lepcha 3) Sumanlata Murmu 4) Bikash Gurung 4) Niva Kerketta

Coaches : 1) Shri.Chae Woong Lim 2) Shri.Ashim Kundu 3) Shri. Sanjeeva Kumar Singh (Coach-cum-Manager)

Indian Archers grabbed a total of 10 Medals in the tournament. Outline of Achievements in the Asian Grand Prix Championship are as under:-

1) Abhishek Verma and Namita Yadav won Indv.Gold Medals in Compound Men & Women sections. 2) Rajiv Basumatary won Individual Gold Medal in Recurve Men 3) Pranitha Vardineni won Individual Silver Medal in Recurve Women section. 4) Prabhat Kandir of Recurve Men and Sumit Kr.Mishra of Compound Men bagged Indv.Bronze Medals. 5) Compound team of Abhishek, Sumit, Sonam and Bikash won Team Gold Medal. 6) Both Recurve Men and Recurve Women Team won Silver Medals.

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RECURVE MEN

Shri.Rajib Basumatary shot very well and won quarterfinal upsetting, Shri.Amardeep Kerketta in quarterfinal (110 Vs 102). He faces another country mates and Junior World Silver Medallist, Shri.Prabhat Kandir in semi final (104 Vs 102) who managed to win “Bronze Medal” thereafter. Shri.Rajiv Basumatary took the coveted place and emerged “Champion” with a margin of 3 over his compatriot Mr.Wi Che Chen of Chinese Taipei in the neck-to-neck fight. Shri.Prabhat Kandir moved to Semi-final defeating Shri.Raju Adonda by 2 points margin (108 Vs 106).

Indian Team Trio – S/Shri.Rajib Basumatary, Adonda Raju, Prabhat Kandir had a success in capturing Semi-Final easily against Singapore (219 Vs 202) but went down to Chinese Taipei by one point (211 Vs 210) for Gold Medal match. The nervousness shown by Indian on the last arrow handed Chinese Taipei the Gold medal. India took the “Silver”.

RECURVE WOMEN

Junior World Silver Medallist, Sow.Pranitha Vardhineni also took the “Asian Junior Runner Up Title”. She beaten Sow.Nisha Rani Dutta (91 Vs 88) in quarterfinal and lost out to Chinese Taipei Archer, Ms.Wan Ting Chang (110 Vs 92) in a match for Gold Medal. The Women’s team won the “Silver Medal” loosing against Chinese Taipei in the final scoring 206 Vs 184. They defeated Malaysia in Semi Final (186 Vs 172).

COMPOUND MEN

Shri.Abhishek Verma occupied the top slot on the podium winning the “Gold Medal” in the final against Hong Kong Archer, Chan Pak Ki (109 Vs 104). Defeating another Hong Kong Archer (107 Vs 105) cleared the way to final. Shri. Sumit Kumar Mishra went away the “Bronze Medal” defeating his room-mate, Shri. Sonam Pinso Lepcha (107 Vs 105). Compound team of S/Shri Abhishek Verma, Sumit Mishra, Sonam Lepcha won “Team Gold Medal” securing 211 points against 192 of Hong Kong.

COMPOUND WOMEN

Sow. Namita Yadav claimed “Gold Medal” breaking the challenge of Indonesian Archer, Dellie Threees Yadinda by 3 points (111 Vs 108). Sow.Rishita Mandwa lost out to Hong Kong Archer in Bronze Medal and placed 4th.

Performance details of Indian Archers are attached as Annexure (B-III)

d) 44th World Archery Championship -

Based on the performance in National Ranking Archery Circuit Tournaments, 3 men & 3 women Archers in Recurve and 3 men and 3 women Archers in Compound division were selected to represent the country in the 44th World Outdoor Target Archery Championship held at Leipzig (Germany) from 7th to 15th July, 2007 wherein 585 men & women Archers from 68 countries took part in Recurve and Compound division competitions :-

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Recurve Men Recurve Women

1) Dola Banerjee 1) Tarundeep Rai 2) Rahul Banerjee 2) Chekrovolu Swuro 3) Somai Murmu 3) L. Bombayla Devi

Compound Men Compound Women

1) C.H. Lenin 1) Jhanu Hansdah 2) Jayantilal Ninoma 2) Bheigyabati Chanu 3) Chungda Sherpa 3) Sumanlata Murmu

Ms., Mr.P.Ravi Shankar accompanied the team as Coaches and Shri Sanjeev Singh represented the country as Coach-cum-Manager.

The brief results of the Indian (men & women) Recurve and Compound Archers in the World Championship are as follows:-

Men Recurve Section : In men recurve segment, the performance was not on expected lines as they established high standard in last two World Championships held at New York and Spain. All three archers did well in the first match but lost their next round. Indian Trio – S/Shri. Rahul Banerjee, Tarundeep Rai, Somai Murmu gave a tough fight to Italy team but unfortunately lost in last arrow deciding tie breaker (212, 10/212, 8) pre-quarterfinal match.

Women Recurve Section : Sow.L.Bombayla Devi deserves appreciation who showed way out to her opponents in first two elimination rounds but could not maintain her rhythm in 1/16 match. Sow.Chekrovolu Swuro scored 1330 brilliantly but could register only one victory in her name. Sow.Dola Banerjee was out of form in the whole competition. She lost her first round. Women’s Recurve Team easily defeated Russian Team in pre-quarterfinal (206 Vs 198) to meet Great Britain in quarterfinal where securing low score of 196 against 210 lost the hope of Medal in the tournament. Team rank was 6th in the world.

Men Compound Section : Among Men Compound Archers, only Shri.Jayantilal Ninoma could impress by his shooting skill in qualification round. The performance of rest of the archers was not at all satisfactory. Team could not even qualify for elimination round.

Women Compound Section : Sow.Jhanu Hansdah, Sow.Bheigyabati Chanu and Sow.Sumanlata Murmu scored 1366, 1336 and 1332 and got 22nd, 52nd and 55th ranks respectively which shows the high standard of world compound archers. Sow.Jhanu Hansdah and Sow.Bheigyabati Chanu pulled off a victory in their 1/32 round but lost in next. In pre-quarter final, France defeated Indian team (217 Vs 213). They stood at 10th.

Performance details of Indian Archers are attached as Annexure (B-IV).

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:: 7 :: e) 4th Meteksan World Cup Archery Championship

A nine-member Indian Archery team took part in the 4th Meteksan World Archery Championship held at Dover (UK) from 31st July to 4th August, 2007. The details of team members are as follows:-

Recurve Men Recurve Women

1) Tarundeep Rai 1) Dola Banerjee 2) Rahul Banerjee 2) Chekrovolu Swuro 3) Somai Murmu 3) L. Bombayla Devi

Coaches : 1) Shri.Chea Woong Lim 2) Smt. Purnima Mahato

Leader of Delegation : Shri Paresh Nath Mukherjee

Recurve Men

The result shown by Recurve Archers was not very encouraging as no man archer could go beyond the pre-quarterfinal level. Indian Team had a success in defeating Ukrains’ Team (214 Vs 209) in a pre-quarterfinal to face Great Britain in quarterfinal. In a very tense and tight match, India shot 219 points as compared to 220 points and went down to Great Britain by 1 point.

Recurve Women

Continuing the well performance in the qualification round, Sow.Dola Banerjee easily defeated Archers from Poland in 1/16, Italy in 1/8 and another Italy archer in ¼ match. In the Semis, she had beaten Sow.Tonetta Elena of Italy in a very exciting tie-breaker Semifinal (109/109). She overcame a stiff challenge from China’s Ms.Zhang JJ to claim the women’s recurve individual Gold Medal. In the clash of top honour, the Arjuna Award winner pipped Zhang and clinched “Gold Medal” by 1 point margin scoring 111 Vs 110. Based on her excellent performance in Dover and points earned in three World Cups, she confirmed one berth among four top World Archers for competiting at World Cup Final at Dubai. Sow.Chekrovolu Swuro managed to win 1/16 and 1/8 round but lost in ¼ match. Her ranking was 7th. Sow.Bombayla Devi lost her first match. Indian Women’s team won Bronze medal by defeating Chinese Taipei and Italy in quarter final by (215 Vs 201) & lost to Italy in Semi Final (216 Vs 210). Indian team crushed Poland (236/229) by 10 points to grab “Bronze Medal”.

Performance details of Indian Archers are attached as Annexure (B-V).

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:: 8 :: f) Triangular Team Archery Event at Lord’s Cricket Ground

It was a matter of great honour that Indian team has been invited to participate a Triangular Team Archery Event at MCC’s Lord’s Cricket Ground in London on 6th August, 2007 just after conclusion of 4th Stage of the World Cup-Dover. Other two countries were China and host England (Great Britain). The Triangular meet was the first series of tournament lined-up by organizers at the Lord’s, the archery venue selected for the 2012-. This was archery’s debut at the 220-year-old Cricket heaven Lord’s.

The Indian Women’s recurve team of Dola Banerjee, Chekrovolu Swuro and L.Bombayla Devi, who won Bronze in Dover defeated hosts Great Britain and China in a row to capture the MCC Challenge Cup.

th g) 15 Asian Archery Championship

The 15th Asian Archery Tournament was held at Xian (China) from 14th to 21st September, 2007 and the composition of team in the Asian Championship was as follows: -

Recurve Men Recurve Women

1) Jayanta Talukdar 1) Chekrovolu Swuro 2) Mangal Singh 2) Dola Banerjee 3) Rahul Banerjee 3) Punyaprabha 4) Raju Adonda 4) Bombayla Devi

Compound Men Compound Women

1) Isaia R.Sanam 1) Jhanu Hansdah 2) Palton Hansdah 2) Bheigyabati Chanu 3) L.Haridas 3) Manjudha Soy 4) Ratan Kumar 4) Ashrita Kerketta

Coach : 1) Shri.Sanjeeva Singh 2) Ms.Purnima Mahato 3) Mr.Chea Woong Lim 4) Shri.B.S. Rao

RECURVE MEN

Shri.Mangal Singh performed very well and won his 1/16, 1/8 and ¼ matches against Malaysian, Chinese Taipei and Chinese Archers respectively. Giving tough fight to World Champion, Mr.Park Kyung Mo (114 Vs 112), he lost out to semi-final but went on to win a “Bronze” against Amano Ryoto (116 Vs 111) of Japan. Shri.Jayanta Talukdar(Ranked 8th) unluckily eliminated in quarter-final registering three victories in 1/32, 1/16 and 1/8 rounds in his name. Shri.Rahul Banerjee and Shri.Raju Adonda got 9th and 20th rank respectively.

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Indian Men’s “Gold Medal” winning brilliant performance at Asian Championship was a historical victory. Men’s team of S/Shri Mangal Singh, Jayanta Talukdar, Rahul Banerjee fought till the final arrow and clinched victory from the Malaysian team (222 Vs 219). They defeated Singapore (227 Vs 208) in the pre-quarterfinal, Chinese Taipei (218 Vs 217) in quarter-final. Thereafter they eliminated China (220 Vs 214) in the semi-final match. They scored 1988 points in qualification round and ranked 3rd. Men’s Team victory was expected, as they had been leading the competition from the very beginning with comfortable margin over majority of the rivals showing their best performance.

Recurve Women

Senior member of Indian team, Sow.Chekrovolu Swuro missed an individual Bronze Medal by 1 point against Ms.Chen Ling of China and stood 4th. She fought all the elimination round boldly defeating Bhutan, country mate and Japanese Archers in a row but failed to win over Sow.Chen Lin of China in Semi Final. All other archers lost by Pre-Quarter finals.

Women’s team consisting of Sow.Dola Banerjee, Sow.Bombayla Devi and Sow.Chekrovolu Swuro took out Singapore Team in pre-quarterfinal (223 Vs 146) and Chinese Taipei in quarter-final (216 Vs 201) but lost out to comparatively strong contender – Korea in Semi Final (219 Vs 215). They claimed the “Bronze Medal” with three points advantage over China (215 Vs 212). Before this, they earned 1922 points and ranked 4th in qualification round.

Compound Men

Indian Compound Men Archers except Shri.Isaia S.Sanam failed to impress with their performance though they were 4th in qualification round. They lost out to Indonesia in quarter-final (227 Vs 214).

Compound Women

For reaching the Semi Final, Sow.Jhanu Hansdah displayed good competitive spirit and eliminated Ms.Shum Kit Pia (113 Vs 106) of Hong Kong in 1/16, Sow.Bheigyabati Chanu(110 Vs 109) of India in pre-quarter and Ms.Lin Hui Chun (114 Vs 107) of Chinese Taipei in quarter-final. Loosing semifinal by three points (111 Vs 108) against Ms.Ijennifer Chan of Philippines, she came back in the game and bagged “Bronze Medal” in neck-to-neck fight with Ms.Siti Aisah Sudin of Malayasia scoring 110 Vs 108.

Indian Compound Women Team of Sow.Jhanu Hansdah, Sow.Bheigyabati Chanu, Sow.Manjudha Soy, Sow.Ashrita Kerketta were seeded 2 after the qualification round. In the elimination round, they gave no chance to Hong Kong (222 Vs 203) in the quarterfinal and Singapore (226 Vs 219) in semi-final to take advantage but they failed to beat Philippines. The gold went to Philippines with 227 points and “Silver Medal” went to India with 219 points.

Performance details of Indian Archers are attached as Annexure (B-VI).

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RECURVE MEN

The performance of our Archers in individual event cannot be termed as satisfactory. No archer could go beyond pre-quarterfinal level. The Indian Team defeated Hong Kong (217 Vs 196) in quarter-final and Indonesia (219 Vs 213) in the earlier round and lost out in the next. Shri. Jayanta Talukdar and Shri.Mangal Singh ranked 1st and 2nd in qualification round earning good scores of 1340 & 1338 points respectively but could not take advantage of the their top positions in Individual Olympic Round.

RECURVE WOMEN

Sow.Chekrovolu Swuro showed good results in the Individual event and put “Bronze Medal” in her quiver defeating Sow.Rina DP Sari(102 Vs 101) of Indonesia. She stopped her country mate, Sow.Dola Banerjee in quarter-final (103 Vs 102) and Ms. H.S. Lin of Chinese-Taipei in a nail biting tie-breaker (99/9 Vs 99/8) in pre-quarterfinal. She lost to another Chinese-Taipei Archer, Ms.H.J.Wu in semi-final. Indian Women Team lost to Chinese-Taipei in Final and bagged the “Silver Medal” scoring 220 Vs 213. The victories against Myanmar (205 Vs 196) and Indonesia (207 Vs 199) in quarter-final and semi-final were noteworthy.

COMPOUND MEN

Compound Men Team lost to Malaysia (230 Vs 216) in semi-final. They could not win Bronze Medal scoring 219 against Philippines of 217. Shri.Abhishek Verma and Shri.Palton Hansda scored 1345 points 1339 points respectively in the qualification round.

COMPOUND WOMEN

In Compound Women segment, India performed brilliantly in both Team and Individual events. The performance of Sow.Jhanu Hansdah, Sow.Bheigyabati Chanu and Sow.Manjudha Soy was praiseworthy but they missed the top slot. Sow.Jhanu Hansdah won the “Silver Medal”. She lost to Ms.A. Paz of Indonesia by a narrow margin of 2 points (111 Vs 109). She defeated her team mate -Sow.Manjudha Soy in semi-final (113 Vs 109), Ms.Y.N.Htike of Myanmar (104 Vs 103) in quarterfinal and Ms.T.Thidar of Myanmar(111 Vs 96) in pre- quarterfinal. Sow.Bheigyabati Chanu and Sow.Manjudha soy fought for Bronze. Sow.Bheigyabati went away the “Bronze Medal” by one point (112 Vs 111).

Sow.Jhanu Hansda scored 1376 points whereas Sow.Manjudha Soy and Sow.Bheigyabati Chanu shot 1342 and 1339 points respectively, which are probably highest scores ever gained by any Indian women archer in International competition.

Performance details of Indian Archers are attached as Annexure (B-VII).

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The Princess of Kolkata, Sow.Dola Banerjee created history claiming the “Gold Medal” in the Women’s individual recurve competition at the World Cup Grand Final at Dubai. She defeated second seeded, South Korean, Ms.Eun Young Choi (110 Vs 109) in a very tight match. Dola was trailing behind by 1 point after the first end. In next round they both shot 10-9-10 and the lead remained to Choi (85-84). Scores were tied as Dola shot 8 against Choi of 7 in last round. Both continued with a 9 and it was still tied. With an 8 at the last arrow by Dola, choi would need a 9 to win but she shot an 8. She had earlier beaten Russian Ms.Natalya Erdyniyeva (108 Vs 106) to advance to the title round.

The World Cup Final followed four legs of qualifier World Cup Competitions at Ulsan (Korea), Antalya (Turkey), Verese (Italy) and Dover (UK). Earning 25 points in the last stage of the world cup at Dover cleared a way to Dubai where she got Gold Medal beating Ms.Zhang Juan Juan of China in nerve-wrecking match (111 Vs 110). Despite missing the third leg in Italy, she earned 37 points behind Ms.Erdyniyeva Natalya (52 points) of Russia, Ms.Choi Eun Young (42 points) of Korea, Ms.Zhang Juan Juan (40 points) of China and placed fourth among the Top 4 Women Recurve finalists. International Archery Federation has awarded her US $ 20,000 in cash for getting 1st place in the World Cup. Cheering spectators of Indian community at Dubai found the strength to beat her strong opponent and to win World Cup Champion Title.

A rousing welcome was arranged at International airport for Dola Banerjee by thousands of friends, relatives, sports administrator, sports lovers and media persons. The golden girls was congratulated by Parliament of India, President of India, Prime Minister, Chief Minister of West Bengal, Many Union and State Ministers, President, IOA and other high dignitaries.

This is the first occasion an Indian had claimed the coveted title and would be a great morale booster for her as well as the national archery contingent preparing for Beijing-Olympics. In 2006, Shri.Jayanta Talukdar had reached the World Cup final in the men’s individual recurve competition and finished fourth.

Performance details of Indian Archers are attached as Annexure (B-VIII).

National Competitions :

Details of Competitions held at National level are given as under: -

I) The 28th Sub-Junior (Recurve, Compound and Indian Round) National Archery Championship was conducted at Jabalpur (Madhya Pradesh) from 26th to 30th October, 2007 by Madhya Pradesh Archery Association. A total of 342 Archers, both boys & girls, along with 46 officials from various States/Units took part in this Championship. Performance of Punjab, Jharkhand, SPSB and SSCB in Recurve and A.P., Jharkhand, Delhi, Manipur & Chattisgarh in Compound was good. Archers of SSCB, Jharkhand, Punjab, SAI, Assam & Maharashtra achieved good results in Indian Round event.

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II) The 30th Junior (Recurve, Compound and Indian Round) National Archery Championship was conducted at Hanuman Vyayam Prasark Mandal, Amravati (Maharashtra) from 17th to 21st November, 2007 by Maharashtra State Archery Association. About 389 boys and girls Archers from 27 State Associations/Units participated in the event. The Archers belonging to Punjab, SPSB, Jharkhand, W.B and U.P in Recurve and Manipur, Maharashtra, Assam, SAI and U.P. in Indian Round dominated. Jharkhand, Delhi, A.P, Manipur teams won almost all the Medals in Compound category.

III) The 28th Senior (Recurve, Compound and Indian Round) National Archery Championship was conducted at JRD TATA Sports Complex, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand from 27th to 31st January, 2008 by the Jharkhand Archery Association in memory of Cherukuri Volga (an Archer) under the aegis of Andhra Pradesh Archery Association. The number of participants including 580 Archers and 62 officials of 33 State Association/Units broke the previous record of competitors set in the Vijayawada - Senior National. Railways, SPSB, SSCB, U.P. and Jharkhand impressed with their performance in Recurve whereas SSCB, Jharkhand, MP, Rajasthan got maximum number of medals in Compound division. SSCB, Assam, MP, Maharashtra, Manipur and SAI did well with bamboo bows and arrows.

Some previous National records in Recurve, Compound and Indian round Men & Women categories were broken in the National Championships conducted during the year 2007.

IV) National Ranking Archery Circuit Tournament (NRACT) and Selection Trials

V) Maiden Mini(Under 13) National Archery Championship -

It is a matter of glad that “1st Mini (Under 13 years) Indian Round, Recurve and Compound Divisions National Archery Championship” at Vijayawada (Andhra Pradesh) from 10th to 13th January, 2008 had been conducted by Andhra Pradesh Archery Association in collaboration with Vijayawada Distt. Archery Association and Volga Archery Academy, as local orgnisers in the memory of late Ms. Cherukuri Volga. The purpose behind introducing Mini National was to develop Archers at School level who will be motivated to start winning at young age and hopefully their interest will sustain till the time they reach the age of 16 years and can play at the Sub-Junior level. The participation of 47 Archers (male & female) in Recurve and Compound division and 66 Archers in Indian Round of 9 States/Units made the maiden Mini National a grand success.

As regards the performance of participants, it may be pointed out that children under 13 years have showed their full potential in the Mini National. Indian archers have won almost all the Medals. The performance of Indian Archers in the Championship, in brief, is given as under :-

Brief results of all the National Championships held during 2007 are attached as Annexure ©.

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Meetings with the Govt. & Sports Authority of India

By submitting Long Term Development Plan (LTDP) for the preparation of our Archery team for the international competitions, Olympics and , meetings with the Government, Sports Authority of India and Indian Olympic Association have been attended by the officials of Archery Association of India so as to overcome the problems with regard to engagement of foreign coach & psychologist, availability of equipment & scientific back up etc.

Arjuna Awards

It is a matter of great pride for the whole Archery fraternity that Shri.Jayanta Talukdar has been bestowed the ARJUNA AWARD by Smt.Pratibha Patil, Hon’ble President of India at Rashtapati Bhawan, on 29th August, 2007 in recognition of his outstanding achievements in the field of Archery. He richly deserves the Arjuna Award for his consistency in performance, dedication, determination, discipline and their sense of duty to bring glory for the country.

Smt. Krishna Ghatak Das (1981), Shri. Limba Ram (1989), Shri. Shyam Lal (1991), Shri. Sanjeeva Kumar Singh (1992), Smt.Dola Banerjee (2006) and Shri. Tarundeep Rai (2006) were the other Arjuna Awardees in previous years.

Cash Award

It has been conveyed by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Govt. of India that Special Cash Incentives of around Rs.1.5 Crores will be disbursed shortly to both Recurve and Compound Archers (men and women) and their Coaches for winning Medals in International competitions during the year 2006.

For 2007 also, Archery Association of India is going to recommend the names of our Archers and Coaches to the Govt. for Cash Incentive consideration.

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Qualification for Olympics – Beijing

Indian Women Team, Sow.Dola Banerjee, Sow.Chekrovolu Swuro, Sow.L.Bombayla Devi confirmed three berths for India for the Beijing - Olympic Games – 2008 showing good results in the 44th World Outdoor Target Archery Championship at Germany from 7th to 15th July, 2007 but unfortunately Men Archers failed to qualify as they did in Athens-Olympics. Asian Continental Tournament at Xian (China) on 22nd September, 2007 was the last chance for India for getting berth in Men’s category. Shri.Mangal Singh Champia did well and came up in the top. He has been declared as Individual Qualifier from India for Olympics to compete in the Men’s Recurve Event. How tough the competition in qualifiers is, can be gauged from the fact that only 20 athletics from India have been able to secure quote places for the country till now.

Our Archers have to prove the power of Indian Archery on the World’s greatest athletic stage.

Procurement of Archery equipment

Archery equipment to the tune of approximately Rs.30,00,000/- has been imported for the use of our elite and upcoming archers against advance deposited with Archery Association of India by the State Association/Unit.

The Sectt.of the AAI will soon start the process of sending proposal to the Govt.of India to get the equipment for the affiliated States/Units under 75-25% Govt.scheme.

Seminar

Archery Association of India in collaboration with M/s. Hoyt & M/s.Easton (USA) and M/s.TATA Steel (India) had conducted the 1st Compound Coaching Seminar at the JRD Tata Sports Complex, Jamshedpur, India from 24th to 29th September, 2007. Invitation to South Asian countries was also sent inviting two coaches per country for the seminar along with coaches from various States in India and top Indian compound archers providing free hospitality to the participants. More than 50 coaches took advantage of the seminar.

The purpose behind holding this Seminar is to get South Asian countries prepared for future international competitions and also the Commonwealth Games-2010 to be held in New Delhi.

Archery Association of India is organizing a Judges’ Seminar on 5th and 6th March, 2008 at Jamshedpur, Jhakrhand to create a group of young Technical persons to cater the need our need to hold domestic & International Tournaments.

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Employment opportunities

Archery Association of India is thankful to Border Security Force, Sashastra Seema Suraksha Bal (SSB), Indian Railways and National Security Guards for creating employment opportunities to our Archers in their organizations. This will help them to earn their livelihood while pursuing the sport of Archery. Almost all the Para-military forces have also raised Archery teams.

10th Junior and IV Cadet World Outdoor Archery Championships- Delhi-2008

It is indeed the biggest disappointment for Indian Archery that the FITA Council has decided to withdraw the allotment of World and Cadet Outdoor Target Archery Championships from India, which was allotted in FITA Congress - 2005 due to the excessive inflation of hotel rates in Delhi. Archery Association of India made it clear to the FITA that the rates offered by the AAI were exclusively for 2006-Junior World Championship whereas the AAI has been allotted the Junior and Cadet World Championships for the year 2008. So, the difference in hotel tariff is obvious and beyond our control.

Keeping in view the infrastructure, logistics and other facilities available, AAI tried for an alternate venue - JRD TATA Sports Complex, Jamshedpur for hosting these championships bringing down the accommodation charges to around US $ 35 per day per head. On visiting the venue by the representative of FITA in October, 2007, it has been conveyed recently by FITA that Jamshedpur has not been found viable by FITA Coordination and Executive Committee on the grounds of lack of air connectivity with the world international airports and it doesn’t fulfill the requirement of FITA. However, FITA was very pleased with the progress of the events and are still would like to give an opportunity to host international event in near future.

National & International Calendar of Events

A copy of Calendar of National/International Tournaments is attached as Annexure (D)

Sad Demise

With profound grief, I convey to you the sad news of the sudden demise of Shri.L.N. Khurana, the founder and senior most member of Archery Association of India and sitting Secretary, Rajasthan Archery Association, Shri Alexander Emmannel, who left for heavenly abode in the year 2007. I, on behalf of all members of AAI pay homage to late Shri.L.N.Khurana and Shri Alexander Emmannel and pray to the Almighty to give peace to the departed soul and give strength to the bereaved family members to bear this irreparable loss.

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Conclusion

First of all, I would like to take this opportunity to extend my gratitude to every AAI member association and Executive council for your dedication and proactive efforts so far and specially Prof.Vijay Kumar Malhotra, M.P., President, AAI under whose dynamic leadership and able guidance, the standard of Archery in India has been improved a lot and still marching ahead. Despite his busy schedule in parliamentary work, political and social circles, our beloved President devotes considerably a long time to Archery on regular basis. Worth appreciating is the dedicated work done by Shri Paresh Nath Mukherjee, Senior Vice-President, AAI without which the success of Indian Archery would not have been possible. The credit for bringing laurels and series of successes to India, of course goes to tremendous efforts made by our elite Archers and their talented Coaches. While congratulating our Senior and Junior Archers both male and female and their Coaches for their enormous efforts, I call upon them to put all- out efforts to develop a strong winner’s instinct in the days to come.

I wish to place on record my sincere thanks to those organizing units who conducted National competitions successfully for their cooperation and constructive guidance for conducting the activities of the AAI smoothly. I thank the Technical officials and others who gave a helping hand directly or indirectly in conducting the various competitions.

I must thank the Ministry of Youth Affairs, Sports and Sports Authority of India & Indian Olympic Association for the courtesy, cooperation and assistance rendered to AAI.

Before concluding, may I take this opportunity to extend my heartiest Greetings and best wishes for the New Year to you and to your families. I sincerely hope that the year 2008 will take us to greater heights in World Archery.

ANIL KAMINENI SECRETARY GENERAL, AAI

Annexure B (I)

st 1 FITA Mateksan Archery World Cup 2007 Tournament Ulsan, Korea – April, 2007

RECURVE DIVISION’S PERFORMANCE

INDIVIDUAL OLYMPIC ROUND- WOMEN

Sl Name Qualification 1/32 1/16 1/8 ¼ ½ Final Overal Rank 1. Dola Banerjee 1247/36 105 109 102 101 - - 6th 2. Chekrovolu Swuro 1275/18 97 92 108 - - - 9th 3. L.Bombayla Devi 1260/26 91 100 - - - - 23rd 4. Sushma 1238/41 93 - - - - - 52nd Qualification Team 3760/9

INDIVIDUAL OLYMPIC ROUND - MEN

Sl Name Qualification 1/32 1/16 1/8 1/4 Semi Final Overall Final Rank 1. Tarundeep Rai 1297/9 106 104 - - - - 21st 2. Rahul Banerjee 1255/34 104 - - - - - 33rd 3. Priyank 1259/30 98 - - - - - 43rd 4. Harish Kerai 1233/50 91 - - - - - 60th Qualification Team 3811/6

TEAM OLYMPIC ROUND – WOMEN

Indian Team Pre-Quarter Quarter Semi Final Rank final Final Final Dola Banerjee 208 Vs 197 Vs - - 7th Chekrovolu & Spain Korea Bombayla 200 211

TEAM OLYMPIC ROUND – MEN

Indian Team Pre-Quarter Quarter Semi Final Rank final Final Final Rahul, Tarundeep & 214 Vs - - - 10th Priyank Mexico 215

Sheet – (II)

COMPOUND DIVISION’S PERFORMANCE

INDIVIDUAL OLYMPIC ROUND- WOMEN

Sl Name Qualification 1/32 1/16 1/8 ¼ ½ Final Overal Rank 1. Namita Yadav 1245/34 101 99 95 - - - 15th 2. Jhanu Hansdah 1310/13 Bye 104 - - - - 18th 3. Bheigyabati Chanu 1278/30 92 101 - - - - 22nd 4. Sakro Besra 1293/24 Bye 93 - - - - 30th Qualification Team 3833/ 8

INDIVIDUAL OLYMPIC ROUND- MEN

Sl Name Qualification 1/32 1/16 1/8 1/4 Semi Final Overall Final Rank 1. Rajwant Singh 1220/40 100 102 - - - - 26th 2. Chungda Sherpa 1237/35 101 - - - - - 33rd 3. Palton Hansda 1234/37 94 - - - - - 43rd 4. C.H.Lenin 1220/39 83 - - - - - 46th Qualification Team 3674/ 9

TEAM OLYMPIC ROUND – WOMEN

Indian Team Pre-Quarter Quarter Semi Final Final Rank Final Final Jhanu, Namita 216 Vs 212 Vs & Bheigyabati Indonesia USA -- -- 5th 208 216

TEAM OLYMPIC ROUND – MEN

Indian Team Pre-Quarter Quarter Semi Final Final Rank Final Final Lenin, Palton & 213 Vs Rajwant Singh Philippines ------9th 214

Annexure B (II)

3rd FITA Mateksan Archery World Cup 2006 & European Grand Prix Tournament Antalya, Turkey– May-June, 2007

RECURVE DIVISION’S PERFORMANCE

INDIVIDUAL OLYMPIC ROUND- WOMEN

Sl Name Qualification 1/32 1/16 1/8 ¼ ½ Final Overal Rank 1. Dola Banerjee 1330/8 110 94 - - - - 31st 2. Punya Prabha 1268/61 104 - - - - - 42nd 3. Chekrovolu Swuro 1297/34 101 - - - - - 54th 4. Bombayla Devi 1246/77 ------77th Qualification Team 3873/15

INDIVIDUAL OLYMPIC ROUND - MEN

Sl Name Qualification 1/32 1/16 1/8 1/4 Semi Final Overall Final Rank 1. Harish Kerai 1300/37 105 106 107 106 - - 8th 2. Tarundeep Rai 1308/25 105 110 109 - - - 10th 3. Rahul Banerjee 1317/17 110 104 - - - - 28th 4. Priyank 1260/82 ------82nd Qualification Team 3885/10

TEAM OLYMPIC ROUND – WOMEN

Indian Team Pre-Quarter Quarter Semi Final Rank final Final Final Dola, Chekrovolu & 203 Vs - - - Bombayla China 14th 216

TEAM OLYMPIC ROUND – MEN

Indian Team Pre-Quarter Quarter Semi Final Rank final Final Final Harish, Rahul & 224 Vs 214 Vs - - Tarundeep USA Malaysia 8th 222 214 (Tie-Breaker)

Annexure B (III) 2nd Asian Grand Prix Archery Tournament Chinese Taipai, June, 2007

RECURVE DIVISION’S PERFORMANCE

INDIVIDUAL OLYMPIC ROUND- WOMEN

Sl Name 70 Mtrs. X 2 1/16 1/8 ¼ Semi Final OverallRank Final 1. Pranitha Vardhineni 571/8 Bye 103 91 110 100 SILVER 2. Reshma Banerjee 589/5 Bye 94 94 - - 6th 3. Nisha Dutta 616/1 Bye 98 88 - - 7th 4. Rosie Lalremhluni 521/12 Bye 83 - - - 16th Qualification Team 1708/2

INDIVIDUAL OLYMPIC ROUND - MEN

Sl Name 70 Mtrs. X 2 1/16 1/8 1/4 Semi Bronze Final Overall Final Medal Rank 1. Rajib Basumatary 634/6 Bye 109 110 104 - 104 GOLD 2. Prabhat Kandir 632/7 Bye 102 108 102 109 - BRONZE 3. Adonda Raju 650/2 Bye 109 106 - - - 5th 4. Amardeep Kerketta 605/14 106 107 102 - - 7th Qualification Team 1916/1

TEAM OLYMPIC ROUND – WOMEN

Indian Team Semi Final Rank Final Nisha, Pranitha 186 206 & Rosie Vs Vs SILVER Malaysia Chinese-Taipei 172 209

TEAM OLYMPIC ROUND – MEN

Indian Team Quarter Semi Final Final Rank Final Rajib, Prabhat 219 210 & Adonda Bye Vs Vs SILVER Singapore Chin.-Taipei 202 211

Sheet – (II)

COMPOUND DIVISION’S PERFORMANCE

INDIVIDUAL OLYMPIC ROUND- WOMEN

Sl Name 70 Mtrs. X 2 ½ Final Overal Rank 1. Namita Yadav 651/2 110 111 1st 2. Rishita Mandava 617/5 90 99 4th 3. Sumanlata Murmu 646/3 101 - 5th 4. Niva Kerketta 620/4 92 - 6th Qualification Team 1914/1

INDIVIDUAL OLYMPIC ROUND- MEN

Sl Name 70 Mtrs. X 2 1/4 Semi Final Bronze Overall Final Medal Rank 1. Abhishek Verma 669/1 107 114 109 1st 2. Sumit Kr. Mishra 645/2 112 106 - 107 3rd 3. Sonam Lepcha 609/4 105 103 - 105 4th 4. Bikash Gurung 588/7 98 - - - 8th Qualification Team 1923/1

TEAM OLYMPIC ROUND – MEN

Indian Team Final Rank

Abhishek, Sumit, & Sonam 211 Vs GOLD Hong Kong 192

Annexure B (IV)

44th World Archery Championship Leipzig, Germany, July 2007

RECURVE DIVISION’S PERFORMANCE

INDIVIDUAL OLYMPIC ROUND- WOMEN

Sl Name FITA Round 1/64 1/32 1/16 1/8 1/4 Final Overall Rank 1 Bombayla Devi 1312/32 104 105 95 - - - 28th 2 Chekrovolu Swuro 1330/18 103 105 - - - - 37th 3 Dola Banerjee 1294/50 104 - - - - - 66th Qualification Team 3936/12

INDIVIDUAL OLYMPIC ROUND - MEN

Sl Name FITA Round 1/32 1/16 1/8 1/4 Semi Final Overall Final Rank 1. Tarundeep Rai 1280/64 104 108 - - - - 39th 2. Rahul Banerjee 1330/14 108 108 - - - - 40th 3. Somai Murmu 1292/54 103 102 - - - - 62nd Qualification Team 3902/14

TEAM OLYMPIC ROUND – WOMEN

Indian Team Pre-Quarter Quarter Semi Final Rank final Final Final Bombayla 206 196 Chekrovolu & Dola, Vs Vs - - 6th Russia G.Britain 198 210

TEAM OLYMPIC ROUND – MEN

Indian Team Pre-Quarter Quarter Semi Final Rank final Final Final Rahul, Somai & 212 Tarundeep Vs - - - 10th Italy 212 (Tie Breaker)

Sheet – (II)

COMPOUND DIVISION’S PERFORMANCE

INDIVIDUAL OLYMPIC ROUND- WOMEN

Sl Name FITA Round 1/64 1/32 1/16 1/8 1/4 1/2 Overall Rank 1. Jhanu Hansdah 1365/22 Bye 111 112 - - - 18th 2. Bheigyabati Chanu 1336/52 Bye 111 106 - - - 31st 3. Sumanlata Murmu 1332/55 Bye 100 - - - - 64th Qualification Team 4033/14

INDIVIDUAL OLYMPIC ROUND - MEN

Sl Name FITA Round 1/64 1/32 1/16 1/8 1/4 1/2 Overall Rank 1. C.H. Lenin 1292/117 111 - - - - - 92nd 2. Jayantilal Ninoma 1332/80 110 - - - - - 97th 3. Chungda Sherpa 1266/130 NQ ------Qualification Team 3890/34

TEAM OLYMPIC ROUND – WOMEN

Indian Team Pre-Quarter Quarter Semi Final Rank final Final Final Jhanu, Bheigyabati 213 & Sumanlata Vs - - - 10th France 217

TEAM OLYMPIC ROUND – MEN

Indian Team Pre-Quarter Quarter Semi Final Rank final Final Final Jayantilal, Lenin Not Qualified for Elimination Round 34th & Chungda Sherpa

Annexure B (V) 4th FITA Mateksan Archery World Cup 2006 Tournament – Dover (UK), July -August , 2007

RECURVE DIVISION’S PERFORMANCE

INDIVIDUAL OLYMPIC ROUND- WOMEN

Sl Name Qualification 1/32 1/16 1/8 ¼ ½ Final Overal Rank 1. Dola Banerjee 1345/2 Bye 106 107 109 108 111 GOLD 2. Chekrovolu Swuro 1312/13 Bye 105 107 105 - - 7th 3. Bombayla Devi 1313/11 Bye 100 - - - - 27th Qualification Team 3970/1

INDIVIDUAL OLYMPIC ROUND - MEN

Sl Name Qualification 1/32 1/16 1/8 1/4 Semi Final Overall Final Rank 1. Rahul Banerjee 1302/14 Bye 108 107 - - - 9th 2. Somai Murmu 1257/40 104 108 - - - - 18th 3. Tarundeep Rai 1274/30 100 - - - - - 44th Qualification Team 3833/10

TEAM OLYMPIC ROUND – WOMEN

Indian Team Pre-Quarter Quarter Semi Bronze Rank final Final Final Medal Dola Banerjee 215 210 208 Chekrovolu & Bye Vs Vs Vs Bronze Bombayla Ch.Taipei Italy Poland Medal 201 216 198

TEAM OLYMPIC ROUND – MEN

Indian Team Pre-Quarter Quarter Semi Final Rank final Final Final Rahul, Somai & 214 219 Tarundeep Vs Vs - - 5th Ukraine G.Britain 209 220

Annexure B (VI)

15th Asian Archery Championship Xian, China, September, 2007

RECURVE DIVISION’S PERFORMANCE

INDIVIDUAL OLYMPIC ROUND - WOMEN

Sl Name Qualification 1/32 1/16 1/8 1/4 Semi Bronze Final Overall 70X2 Final Medal Rank 1. Chekrovolu Swuro 627/21 106 106 107 100 102 104 - 4th 2. Dola Banerjee 656/5 Bye 102 104 - - - - 10th 3. Bombayla Devi 639/13 Bye 107 102 - - - 21st 4. Punyaprabha 642/11 Bye 102 - - - - - 24th Qualification Team 1922/4

INDIVIDUAL OLYMPIC ROUND- MEN

Sl Name Qualification 1/32 1/16 1/8 1/4 Semi Bronze Final Overall 70X2 Final medal Rank 1. Mangal Singh 673/2 Bye 111 114 113 112 116 - Bronze 2. Jayanta Talukdar 658/13 109 112 114 106 - - - 8th 3. Rahul Banerjee 657/14 113 113 113 - - - - 9th 4. Adonda Raju 651/19 113 108 - - - - - 20th Qualification Team 1988/3

TEAM OLYMPIC ROUND – WOMEN

Indian Team 1/8 Quarter Semi Final Final Bronze Rank Final Medal Dola, Chekrovolu, 223 216 215 215 Bombayla & Vs Vs Vs - Vs BRONZE Punyaprabha Singapore Chins.-Taipai Korea China 146 201 219 212

TEAM OLYMPIC ROUND – MEN

Indian Team 1/8 Quarter Semi Final Rank Final Final Mangal, Jayanta 227 218 220 222 Rahul & Adonda Vs Vs Vs Vs GOLD Raju Singapore Chins.-Taipei China Malaysia 208 217 214 219

Sheet – (II)

COMPOUND DIVISION’S PERFORMANCE

INDIVIDUAL OLYMPIC ROUND- WOMEN

Sl Name Qualification 1/16 1/8 ¼ Semi Bronze Final Overall 70X2 Final Medal Rank 1. Jhano Hansda 661/4 113 110 114 108 110 - Bronze 2. Bheigyabati Chanu 644/13 111 109 - - - - 9th 3. Asrita Kerketta 633/20 106 - - - - - 19th 4. Manjudha Soy 637/18 106 - - - - - 20th Qualification Team 1942/2

INDIVIDUAL OLYMPIC ROUND- MEN

Sl Name Qualification 1/32 1/16 1/8 1/4 Semi Final Overall 70X2 Final Rank 1. Isaia S.Sanam 679/8 Bye 111 106 113 - - 5th 2. Ratan Kumar 667/26 110 109 97 - - - 16th 3. Palton Hansda 670/23 Bye 108 - - - - 19th 4. L.Haridas 671/21 Bye 106 - - - - 27th Qualification Team 2016/4

TEAM OLYMPIC ROUND – WOMEN

Indian Team Quarter Semi Final Rank Final Final Jhano, 222 226 219 Bheigyabat, Vs Vs Vs SILVER Manjudha & Hong Kong Singapore Philippines Asrita 203 219 227

TEAM OLYMPIC ROUND – MEN

Indian Team Quarter Semi Final Final Rank Final I.S. Sanam, 214 Palton, Ratan & Vs - - 8th L.Haridas Indonesia 227 Annexure B (VII)

3rd Asian Grand Prix Archery Tournament Isfahan, Iran, October, 2007

RECURVE DIVISION’S PERFORMANCE

INDIVIDUAL OLYMPIC ROUND- WOMEN

Sl Name Qualification Round 1/8 1/4 1/2 Bronze OverallRank (70 X 2) Medal 1. Bombayla Devi 660/1 110 111 113 111 GOLD 2. Chekrovolu Swuro 646/2 106 103 - - 6th 3. Dola Banerjee 641/5 107 - - - 8th 4. V. Pranitha 582/13 98 - - - 10th Qualification Team 1947/1 -

INDIVIDUAL OLYMPIC ROUND - MEN

Sl Name Qualification 1/8 1/4 1/2 Final Overall Rank Round (70 X 2) 1. Mangal Singh 681/2 Bye 109 111 115 GOLD 2. Rahul Banerjee 681/1 Bye 114 111 107 SILVER 3. Adonda Raju 658/3 Bye 106 107 - 5th 4. Rajib Basumatary 650/4 112 110 107 - 6th Qualification Team 2007/1

TEAM OLYMPIC ROUND – WOMEN

Indian Team Semi Final Rank Final Dola, Chekrovolu & Bombayla 225 215 Vs Vs GOLD Iran Chinese-Taipei 196 196

TEAM OLYMPIC ROUND – MEN

Indian Team Semi Final Final Rank

Mangal, Rahul & Adonda 220 Bye Vs GOLD Indonesia 207

Sheet – (II)

COMPOUND DIVISION’S PERFORMANCE

INDIVIDUAL OLYMPIC ROUND- WOMEN

Sl Name Qualificatio 1/8 ¼ ½ Bronze Final Overal Rank n Round Medal (70 X 2) 1. Bheigyabati Chanu 645/8 113 108 98 103 - 4th 2. Jhanu Hansdah 666/4 Bye 104 - - - 7th 3. Ashrita Kerketta 642/10 105 - - - - 9th 4. Sumanlata Murmu 620/12 102 - - - 11th Qualification Team 1931/3

INDIVIDUAL OLYMPIC ROUND- MEN

Sl Name Qualificatio 1/8 1/4 Semi Bronze Final Overall Rank n Round Final Medal (70 X 2) 1. I.R. Sanam 682/3 Bye 112 109 - 114 GOLD 2. L.Haridas 673/8 112 111 104 109 - 4th 3. Sanjay Swansi 666/12 116 108 - - - 8th 4. Sumit Kr.Mishra 663/11 111 - - - - 12th Qualification Team 2021/2

TEAM OLYMPIC ROUND – WOMEN

Indian Team Quarter Semi Final Final Rank Final Jhano,Bheigyabati & 212 Sumanlata -- Vs -- BRONZE Indonesia 221

TEAM OLYMPIC ROUND – MEN

Indian Team Quarter Semi Final Bronze Rank Final Medal L.Haridas, Sumit 222 223 & Sanjay Swansi -- Vs Vs SILVER Indonesia Iran 221 231

Annexure B (VIII)

WORLD CUP FINAL DUBAI, UAE, 24th November, 2007

S E M I F I N A L

COMETITORS SCORE RESULT

Dola Banerjee (INDIA) Dola - 108 Dola won by Vs Vs 2 points Natalya Erdyniyeva (RUSSIA) Natalya - 106

F I N A L

COMETITORS SCORE RESULT

Dola Banerjee (INDIA) Dola - 110 GOLD Vs Vs Choi Ey (KOREA) Choi Ey - 109 MEDAL

Annexure C (I)

28th Senior National Archery Championship Jameshedpur – January, 2008

RECURVE DIVISION

QUALIFICATION - FITA ROUND (MEN)

Position Name Score State 1st Jayanta Talukdar S.P.S.B 1354 2nd Priyank U.P. 1353 3rd Mangal Singh Champia Railways 1341

QUALIFICATION - FITA ROUND (WOMEN)

Position Name State Score

1st Dola Banerjee Railway 1327 2nd Bombayla Devi Railway 1319 3rd V.Pranitha S.P.S.B 1307

CHAMPION INDIVIDUAL (MEN)

Position Name State Score

1st Rahul Banerjee S.P.S.B 111 2nd Mangal Singh Champia U.P 110 3rd Raju Adonda S.P.S.B 110

CHAMPION INDIVIDUAL (WOMEN)

Position Name State Score

1st Bombayla Devi Railways 111 2nd Dola Banerjee Railways 104 3rd Chekrovolu Swuro Nagaland 109

CHAMPION - TEAM (MEN)

Position State Team Members Score

1st S.P.S.B Jayanta Talukdar, Rahul 217 Banerjee, Raju Adonda & Rajiv Basumatary 2nd S.S.C.B Tarundeep Rai, M.R.Tirkey, 212 Harish Chand Kerai & Goutam Singh 3rd Uttar Pradesh Vishwas, Priyank, Manoj & Anand 219

CHAMPION - TEAM (WOMEN)

Position State Team Members Score

1st Indian Railway Dola Banerjee, Reena Kumari 209 Bombayla Devi & Sumangla 2nd S.P.S.B V. Pranitha, Rosie Lalremhluni, 205 Pratima Boro & Nisha Rani Dutta 3rd Jharkhand Lakshmi Rani Majhi, Reshma 196 Banerjee, Seema & Rimil Biruli Sheet - II

COMPOUND DIVISION

QUALIFICATION - FITA ROUND (MEN)

Position Name State Score

1st Kh.Ratan Kumar S.S.C.B 1357 2nd Chungda Sherpa S.S.C.B 1357 3rd Baban Kumar M.P. 1349

QUALIFICATION - FITA ROUND (WOMEN)

Position Name State Score

1st Jhano Hansda Jharkhand 1348 2nd Bheigyabati Chanu Jharkhand 1344 3rd Renu Munda M.P. 1329

CHAMPION INDIVIDUAL (MEN)

Position Name State Score

1st Bijoy Roy Meghalaya 109 2nd Santosh Tamang S.S.C.B 107 3rd Vikash Sherawat Delhi 107

CHAMPION INDIVIDUAL (WOMEN)

Position Name State Score

1st Namita Yadav Jharkhand 109 2nd Niva Kerketta Jharkhand 108 3rd Shreya Sen Manipur 107

CHAMPION - TEAM (MEN)

Position State Team Members Score

1st Madhya Pradesh Umesh B.Kuvathekar, G.Titomas 219 Sharma, Baban Kumar & M.Chinglen Sana 2nd Rajasthan Jayantilal, Lal Singh Ninoma, 216 Dinesh Pandawala & Sumit Mishra 3rd Railways C.H. Lenin, Naresh Damor & 222 Shivnath Nagesia

CHAMPION - TEAM (WOMEN)

Position State Team Members Score

1st Jharkhand Jhano Hansda, Namita Yadav 224 Bhagyabati Chanu & Niva Kerketta 2nd Madhya Pradesh Sweety Kumari, Renu Munda, 198 Poonam Soni & Anjali Kumari 3rd Mizorum Priyanshu, Meena, Ashrita 198 Kerketta & Harsha Bhardwaj

Sheet - III INDIAN ROUND

CHAMPION - INDIVIDUAL (MEN)

Position Name State Score

1st Bishnu Ramnath SSCB 111 2nd Uttam Kesri SSCB 102 3rd Tilth Aboh SSCB 107

CHAMPION - INDIVIDUAL (WOMEN)

Position Name State Score

1st Pratibah Boro Assam 103 2nd Nitu Engole Maharashtra 97 3rd P.Thourani Shabi Devi Arunachal Pradesh 100

CHAMPION - TEAM (MEN)

Position State Team Members Score

1st Madhya Pradesh Sandeep Daklan, Anil Kumar, 213 Ambone Manoj & Suraj Singh 2nd Manipur T.H. Sanatamba Singh, S.Basanta, 210 M.Ninsthen & P.Somen 3rd Assam Rupeswar Ray, Baleswar Ram, Arun 220 Boro & Orkay Basumatary

CHAMPION - TEAM (WOMEN)

Position State Team Members Score

1st Arunachal Pradesh L.Ranjana Devi, P.Theurani Sabi 198 Devi, Sh.Romita Devi & Landu Lu Kamei 2nd SAI Buli Baumatary, L.Gunita Devi, 188 P.Binita Devi & G.Dhaneswari Devi 3rd Assam Kamini Boro, Pratibah Boro, Binita 202 Boro & Bharathi Saranya

Annexure C (II)

30th Junior National Archery Championship Amravati – November, 2007

RECURVE DIVISION

QUALIFICATION - FITA ROUND (BOYS)

Position Name State Score

1st Prabhat Kandir SPSB 1265 2nd Rajib Basumatary SPSB 1258 3rd Anurag Kamal Sevta Punjab 1248

QUALIFICATION - FITA ROUND (GIRLS)

Position Name State Score

1st Nisha Dutta SPSB 1262 2nd Pranitha Boro SPSB 1261 3rd Belamai Hansda Jharkhand 1258

CHAMPION INDIVIDUAL (BOYS)

Position Name State Score

1st Adonda Raju SPSB 107 2nd Amrinder Singh Punjab 94 3rd Parvinder Singh Punjab 107

CHAMPION INDIVIDUAL (GIRLS)

Position Name State Score

1st Pranitha Boro SAI 104 2nd Reshma Banerjee Jharkhand 96 3rd Balemai Hansda Jharkhand 95

CHAMPION - TEAM (BOYS)

Position State Team Members Score

1st SPSB Adonda Raju, Prabhat Kandir, 204 Rajib Basumatary & Amardeep Kerketta 2nd W.B. Somenath Mandal, Atanu Das & 171 Sabhrajit Samanta 3rd U.P Baidyanath, Anand, Jyotikant & 205 Charan

CHAMPION - TEAM (GIRLS)

Position State Team Members Score

1st SPSB Nisha Dutta, Pratima Boro, 205 V.Pranith & Rosie Lalremhluni 2nd Jharkhand Balemai Hansda, Reshma 195 Banerjee, Laxmi Rani Majhi & Rimil Buriuly 3rd SAI Lydia, Ritu, Anuraha Patil and 187 Nisha Tomar Sheet - II

COMPOUND DIVISION

QUALIFICATION - FITA ROUND (BOYS)

Position Name State Score

1st Sanjay Swansi Jharkhand 1320 2nd Abhishek Verma Delhi 1310 3rd Deepak Karmakar Jharkhand 1308

QUALIFICATION - FITA ROUND (GIRLS)

Position Name State Score

1st Namita Yadav Jharkhand 1346 2nd Babita Bisai Jharkhand 1320 3rd Niva Kerketta Jharkhand 1294

CHAMPION INDIVIDUAL (BOYS)

Position Name State Score

1st Abhishek Verma Delhi 108 2nd Sanjay Swansi Jharkhand 107 3rd Jignas Ch. A.P. 118

CHAMPION INDIVIDUAL (GIRLS)

Position Name State Score

1st Namita Yadav Jharkhand 111 2nd Babita Bisai Jharkhand 109 3rd Sweety Kumari Jharkhand 109

CHAMPION - TEAM (BOYS)

Position State Team Members Score

1st Manipur M.Anupam, Nikon Ksh, 203 Ph.Dayanand & L.Romio 2nd Andhra Pradesh V.Shivkumar, Jignas Ch, 203 T.Bhargav Reddy & T.Rohit 3rd Jharkhand Sanjay Swansi, Deepak 215 Karmakar, Sumit Mishra & Manish Sharma

CHAMPION - TEAM (GIRLS)

Position State Team Members Score

1st Jharkhand Namita Yadav, Babit Bisai, Niva 204 Kerketta & Asrita Kerketta 2nd Andhra Pradesh B.Anila Rani, CH Yogitha, 160 R.Priyanka & Y.Anushareddy

Sheet -III

INDIAN ROUND

CHAMPION - INDIVIDUAL (BOYS)

Position Name State Score

1st Satish Dubey U.P. 665 2nd Bipul Sutradhar SAI 651 3rd Assam Assam 650

CHAMPION - INDIVIDUAL (GIRLS)

Position Name State Score

1st Mahamoti Basumatary Assam 637 2nd Kunitu Namdevrao Ingole Maharashtra 630 3rd Rupal U.P. 629

CHAMPION - TEAM (BOYS)

Position State Team Members Score

1st Manipur P.Somen, M.Sanjay, G.Robert 1919 Sharma & M.Yaima 2nd Maharashtra Anand W.Govindrao, Pawan 1906 S.Jadhao, Mohod A.Raju & Vaibhav G.Deshmukh 3rd Assam Arun Boro, Hemlata Basumatary, 1888 Uttam Swargiary & Suraj T.Phukon

CHAMPION - TEAM (GIRLS)

Position State Team Members Score

1st Manipur K.Manavdya Devi, Chreestina Aribam 1811 B.Honey Devi & P.Pravahini 2nd Maharashtra Nitu N.Ingole, Komal V.Katke, Nikita 1785 P.Ugavekar & Ujade P.Bhikaji 3rd SAI Santhoi Devi, Dhaneshwori Devi, 1762 Binita Boro & Pallabi Boro

Annexure C (III)

28th Sub-Junior National Archery Championship Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh –October, 2007

RECURVE DIVISION

QUALIFICATION - FITA ROUND (BOYS)

Position Name State Score

1st Somenath Mandal W.B. 1317 2nd Mangal Ho Jharkhand 1303 3rd Jitender Chouhan SPSB 1271

QUALIFICATION - FITA ROUND (GIRLS)

Position Name State Score

1st Rimil Buruily Jharkhand 1307 2nd Lovina Saluza SPSB 1268 3rd Balmai Jharkhand 1259

CHAMPION INDIVIDUAL (BOYS)

Position Name State Score

1st Atanu Das W.B. 107 2nd Vishesh Punjab 100 3rd Anurag Punjab 105

CHAMPION INDIVIDUAL (GIRLS)

Position Name State Score

1st Rimil Buriuly Jharkhand 111 2nd Balmai Jharkhand 88 3rd Lovina Saluza SPSB 98

CHAMPION - TEAM (BOYS)

Position State Team Members Score

1st W.B. Atanu Das, Somnath Mondol & 206 Subhrajit Samanta 2nd SPSB Jeetendra, M.Ramesh & Harkirat 205 Singh 3rd SSCB A.Dicky Sharma, Raj Govind 203 Swamsh & H.Netaji Meitei

CHAMPION - TEAM (GIRLS)

Position State Team Members Score

1st Jharkhand Rimil Buriuly, Balmai & Swati 206 Thakur 2nd SPSB Seema Verma, Lovina Saluja & 195 Meenakshi Tomar 3rd SAI Amradha Patil, L.Rabika Devi & 194 Jashmine Kaur Sheet - II

COMPOUND DIVISION

QUALIFICATION - FITA ROUND (BOYS)

Position Name State Score

1st CH Jignab A.P. 1309 2nd Tanu Jharkhand 1284 3rd Rohit Aseem Jharkhand 1282

QUALIFICATION - FITA ROUND (GIRLS)

Position Name State Score

1st Priyanshu Jharkhand 1323 2nd Reena Kumari Jharkhand 1220 3rd Sarikonda Jayalaxmi Maharashtra 1193

CHAMPION INDIVIDUAL (BOYS)

Position Name State Score

1st Jignash A.P 106 2nd Rohit Aseem Jharkhand 101 3rd Hem Bahadur Gurung Chattisgarh 102

CHAMPION INDIVIDUAL (GIRLS)

Position Name State Score

1st Priyanshu Jharkhand 105 2nd Kirem Majhi Chattisgarh 96 3rd Sarikonda Jayalaxmi Maharashtra 87

CHAMPION - TEAM (BOYS)

Position State Team Members Score

1st A.P. CH. Jignas, T.Rohit & V.Shiva 216 2nd Jharkhand Tanu, Avinash & Rohit Aseem 214 3rd Chattisgarh Akash Sarkar, Hem Bahadur & 199 Montu Soren

CHAMPION - TEAM (GIRLS)

Position State Team Members Score

1st Jharkhand Priyanshu, Meena Kumari & 176 Gayatri Bodra 2nd Haryana Harsha Kumari, Rajni Kaur & 166 Neelam Bodra

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CHAMPION - INDIVIDUAL (BOYS)

Position Name State Score

1st Om Prakash Uttranchal 687 2nd Shahid Arif Meghalya 683 3rd Hemlata Basumatary SAI 673

CHAMPION - INDIVIDUAL (GIRLS)

Position Name State Score

1st Binita Boro Assam 640 2nd Nihita Bhagat Maharashtra 639 3rd R.K.Satyapriyadevi SAI 630

CHAMPION - TEAM (BOYS)

Position State Team Members Score

1st SSCB Th.Ton Sam, G.Rocky Sharma, 2009 Pravish Rai & T.Abuncha Singh 2nd Jharkhand Shivadhan Tudu, Sanjay Jarika, 1958 Pawan & Pradip Swansi 3rd Punjab Gurlal Singh, Himmat, Vishu & 1929 Asrhdeep Singh

CHAMPION - TEAM (GIRLS)

Position State Team Members Score

1st SAI R.K.Satyapriya Devi, Pallavi Boro, 1819 Aruna Songara & Ch.Ronibala 2nd Assam Binita Boro, Mirnali Boro, Khuman 1803 Chetia & Pratima Boro 3rd Maharashtra Nihita Bhagat, Garge Karmakar, 1794 v Ujade Pooja & Nikeeta Deshmukh

Annexure C (IV)

Mini (Under 13 years) National Archery Championship Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh – January, 2008

RECURVE DIVISION

CHAMPION INDIVIDUAL (BOYS)

Position Name State 1st Akash Nayak Jharkhand 2nd Samir Mandal Jharkhand 3rd Balram Prasad Jharkhand

CHAMPION INDIVIDUAL (GIRLS)

Position Name State 1st Ankita Tiwary Jharkhand 2nd Punja Munda Jharkhand 3rd Nirmala Munda Jharkhand

CHAMPION - TEAM (BOYS)

Position State Team Members 1st Jharkhand Akash Nayak, Samir Mandal, Balram Prasad & Kishan Gunda 2nd A.P DV Prajay Kongala,G.Bhargava Krishna,Hitesh Kurmi,Satyanaryana 3rd Maharashtra Ashok Bhilamekar, Bhushan, Shinde Ashish & Mithu Budhu Marskohle

CHAMPION - TEAM (GIRLS)

Position State Team Members 1st Jharkhand Ankita Tiwary, Puja Mahandna, Nirmala Munda, & B.Anisha 2nd AP Haritha, Pasupulati Laxmi, Madasu Alaikhya & Arja Mounisha 3rd Maharashtra Samrudhi Randeve, Shitija Dhudhe & Akansha Pathania

COMPOUND DIVISION

CHAMPION INDIVIDUAL (BOYS)

Position Name State 1st V.Shiv Kumar A.P. 2nd E G N Deepu A.P. 3rd Nilesh Singh Jharkhand

CHAMPION INDIVIDUAL (GIRLS)

Position Name State 1st V.Jyoti Surekha A.P. 2nd Mridula Parande Maharashtra 3rd Sri Keyura A.P.

CHAMPION - TEAM (BOYS)

Position State Team Members 1st A.P V.Shiv Kkumar, EGV Deepu, E.Sahith & K.Tejender Prasad 2nd Jharkhand Arjun Rao, Nilesh Singh, Anurag Kumar

CHAMPION - TEAM (GIRLS)

Position State Team Members 1st AP V.Jyoto Surekha, Sri Keyura & V.Susrita Chowdary 2nd Maharashtra Mridula Parande, Ryaz Khan & Janvi Pandya

Sheet - II

INDIAN ROUND

CHAMPION INDIVIDUAL (BOYS)

Position Name State 1st M.Bikram Singh Manipur 2nd Ritul Chattarjee U.P. 3rd Bhutan Swansi Jharkhand

CHAMPION INDIVIDUAL (GIRLS)

Position Name State 1st G.Vijaya Laxmi A.P. 2nd O Naobi Chanu Manipur 3rd N Reshma Devi Manipur

CHAMPION - TEAM (BOYS)

Position State Team Members 1st Jharkhand Bhutan Swansi, Binod Swansi, Arjun Mandal & Prabhakar 2nd Manipur M.Bikram Singh, Y.Tolen Meetei, Senator Th. & Y.Dina Kumar 3rd Maharashtra Akshay Chikhalkar, Akshay Shirke, Akshay Onkar & Vivek Borle

CHAMPION - TEAM (GIRLS)

Position State Team Members 1st Manipur O Naobi Chanu, N Reshma Devi, C H Debiya Devi & Fanta Devi 2nd Jharkhand Laxmi Purty, Sulochana Tudu, Jyoti Purty & Priti Rajak 3rd AP G Vijaya Laxmi, P.Srilaxmi, A Ritika & Varanasi Sonali

Annexure ‘D’

CALENDAR OF NATIONAL, INTERNATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS, COACHING CAMPS & SEMINAR

SNo Competition Venue Date

1. National Coaching Camp for the Asian Grand Prix and SAF Championships JRD TATA Sports (4 Jr.Rec.Boys + 4 Jr.Rec.Girls + 4 Complex, 11th February to 11th March, 2008 Jr.Comd.Boys + 4 Jr.Comd.Girls) Jamshedpur, Jharkhand (8 Indian Rd.Boys + 8 Indian Rd.Girls) Coaches – (4) 2. 1st Asian Grand Prix Archery Bangkok, Thailand 25th to 29th February, 2008 Championship (Junior’s exposure) 3. Selection Trials Kolkata 1st & 2nd March, 2008

4. 1st Asian Junior Grand Prix and 2nd JRD TATA Sports 5th to 7th March, 2008 SAF Championship Complex, (Junior’s exposure for Recurve and Jamshedpur, Jharkhand Compound and Senior’s exposure for Indian Round) 5. Coaches’ Seminar Jamshedpur, Jharkhand 8th and 9th March, 2008

6. National Coaching Camp for the 1st and 2nd Stage of the World Cup Topurnts SAI Eastern Centre, 28th February to 14th April, 2008 (8 Rec.Boys + 8 Rec.Girls + 8 Kolkata, W.B. Comd.Boys + 8 Comd.Girls) Coaches – (5) 7. World Cup Tournament (Stage –I) – Dominican Republic 1st to 8th April, 2008 Recurve and Compound (M & W) (Senior’s exposure) 8. World Cup Tournament (Stage –II) – Porec, Croatia 15th to 19th April, 2008 Recurve and Compound (M & W) & European Grand Prix (Senior’s exposure) 9. Selection Trials for 3rd and 4th World SAI Eastern Centre, End of April, 2008 Cup Tournament Kolkata 10. World Cup Tournament (Stage –III) – Antalya, Turkey 27th to 31st May, 2008 Recurve and Compound (M & W) & European Grand Prix (Senior’s exposure) 11. 2nd Asian Grand Prix Archery June, 2008 Championship (Senior’s exposure) 12. World Cup Tournament (Stage –IV) – Boe, France 23rd to 29th June, 2008 Recurve and Compound (M & W)

13. 29th Olympic Games Beijing, China 11th to 18th August, 2008 (Recurve Men & Women) (8th to 24th August)

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14. 2nd South Asian Archery To be decided Yet to be decided Championship Recurve & Compound (M & W) 15. 11th South Bangladesh, Dhaka 2008 Recurve (M & W) 16. World Cup Final (If eligible based on Oct- Nov., 2008 four World Cup Tournaments)

CALENDAR OF NATIONAL, INTERNATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS, COACHING CAMPS & SEMINAR

During 1st April, 2007 to 31st March, 2008

SNo Competition Venue Date

1. 28th Sub-Junior Natl. Championship Jabalpur 26th to 30th October, 2007 Madhya Pradesh

2. 30th Junior National Championship Amravati 17th to 20th November, 2007 Maharashtra 3. 28th Senior National Championship Jamshedpur 27th to 31st January, 2008 Jharkhand 4. National Coaching Camp for the Asian Grand Prix and SAF Championships JRD TATA Sports (4 Jr.Rec.Boys + 4 Jr.Rec.Girls + 4 Complex, 11th February to 11th March, 2008 Jr.Comd.Boys + 4 Jr.Comd.Girls) Jamshedpur, Jharkhand (8 Indian Rd.Boys + 8 Indian Rd.Girls) Coaches – (4) 5. 1st Asian Grand Prix Archery Bangkok, Thailand 25th to 29th February, 2008 Championship (Junior’s exposure) 6. Selection Trials SAI, Eastern Centre, 1st & 2nd March, 2008 Kolkata 7. 1st Asian Junior Grand Prix and 2nd JRD TATA Sports 5th to 7th March, 2008 SAF Championship Complex, (Junior’s exposure for Recurve and Jamshedpur, Jharkhand Compound and Senior’s exposure for Indian Round) 8. Coaches’ Seminar Jamshedpur, Jharkhand 8th and 9th March, 2008

9. National Coaching Camp for the 1st and 2nd Stage of the World Cup Topurnts SAI Eastern Centre, 28th February to 14th April, 2008 (8 Rec.Boys + 8 Rec.Girls + 8 Kolkata, W.B. Comd.Boys + 8 Comd.Girls) Coaches – (5)

Venues and Dates of National Championships=2008 will be decided in the General Council Meeting to be held at New Delhi on 16th February, 2008.