Archery Association of India R E P O R T of the Secretary
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ARCHERY ASSOCIATION OF INDIA 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 Kolkata – 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 China’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 South Korea 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, Rahul Banerjee, 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 Beijing –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:- ..…..2/- ::2:: International Tournaments: The details of International Tournaments in which Indian Archers took part are as follows :- a) 1st FITA Meteksan Archery World Cup - 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. .…3/- :: 3:: 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). …….4/- :::4::: 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. ….....5/- :: 5 :: 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).