India Olympic archery team

The Indian Olympic archery team competes at the Summer Olympic Games in the sport of archery.

India first entered an archery team for the Summer Olympic Games in 1988, at the Seoul Summer games.[1]

India entered three archers at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics[2]

India entered three archers at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics[3]

India entered six person archery team at the 2004 Athens Olympics[4][5]

India entered four archers at the Beijing Olympics in 2008.[6][7][8][9]

India entered with a six person archery team in the London 2012 Olympics.[10][11][12][13]

In the Rio 2016 Olympics, India's Atanu Das was the only individual from the Men's team to reach the Final, finishing equal 9th.[14] In the Women's individual competition, Bombayla Devi Laishram and Deepika Kumari finished equal 9th and Laxmirani Majhi finished equal 33rd.[15]

London Olympics 2012 Indian archery team members

#	Athlete	Date of Birth (age)	Club
1	Jayanta Talukdar	2 March 1986	Tata Archery Academy
2	Rahul Banerjee[13]	15 December 1986	Railways
3	Tarundeep Rai	22 February 1984	Indian Army
4	Deepika Kumari[12]	13 June 1994	Tata Archery Academy
5	Bombayala Devi[7]	22 February 1985	Mittal Champions Trust
6	Chekrovolu Swuro	21 November 1982	Mittal Champions Trust
7	Limba Ram (Coach)	30 January 1972	Archery Association of India
8	Purnima Mahato (Coach)	15 August 1976	Tata Archery Academy
9	Ravi Shankar (Coach)	5 February 1971	Indian Army
10	Paresh Nath Mukherjee (Manager)	2 June 1946	Archery Association of India

The Indian men's archery team of Jayanta Talukdar, Rahul Banerjee and Tarundeep Rai was knocked out of the London Olympics on the opening day.[16]

Beijing Olympics 2008 Indian archery team members

#	Athlete	Date of Birth (age)	Club
1	Mangal Singh Champia[9]	9 November 1983	Mittal Champions Trust
2	Dola Banerjee[8]	2 June 1980	Railways
3	Bombayala Devi[7]	22 February 1985	Mittal Champions Trust
4	Pranitha Vardhineni	17 November 1990	Railways
5	Limba Ram (Coach)	30 January 1972	Archery Association of India
6	Purnima Mahato (Coach)	15 August 1976	Tata Archery Academy
7	Lee Wang Woo (Coach)	5 February 1964	Mittal Champions Trust
8	Kulbir singh Kang (Manager)	2 June 1956	Archery Association of India

Athens Olympics 2004 Indian archery team members

#	Athlete	Date of Birth (age)
1	Satyadev Prasad	19 September 1979
2	Tarundeep Rai	22 February 1984
3	Majhi Sawaiyan	23 December 1981
4	Dola Banerjee[8]	2 June 1980
5	Reena kumari[5]	15 January 1984
6	Sumangala Sharma	30 December 1986

Atlanta Olympics 1996 Indian archery team members

#	Athlete
1	Limba Ram
2	Skalzang Dorje
3	Lalremsanga Chhangte

Barcelona Olympics 1992 Indian archery team members

#	Athlete
1	Limba Ram
2	Dhulchand Damor
3	Lalremsanga Chhangte

Seoul Olympics 1988 Indian archery team members

#	Athlete
1	Limba Ram
2	Shyam Lal
3	Sanjeeva Singh

References

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4. "Indian archers qualify for Athens Olympics". Times of India. 20 July 2003. Retrieved 23 July 2012.
5. "India Archery at the 2004 Athens Summer Games". Sports-Reference. Archived from the original on 6 November 2012. Retrieved 23 July 2012.
6. "India Archery at the 2008 Beijing Summer Games". Sports-Reference. Archived from the original on 12 October 2015. Retrieved 23 July 2012.
7. "Bombayla Devi: One of the three musketeers of Indian archery team".
8. "Dola Banerjee". Retrieved 23 July 2012.
9. "Jharkhand olympic association to go all out for Champia". The Times Of India. Retrieved 23 July 2012.
10. http://post.jagran.com/Deepika-leads-Indian-archers-Olympic-dream-in-London-1341493110
11. "Sport / Other Sports : Warm send-off for Indian archery squad". Chennai, India: The Hindu. 2012-07-15. Retrieved 2012-07-23.
12. Srinivasan, Madhumitha (23 July 2012). "India in London". The Hindu. Chennai, India.
13. http://olympicgoldquest.in/index.php?option=com_phocagallery&view=category&id=2&Itemid=2&cid=30
14. "Rio 2016 Individual Competition men - Olympic Archery". International Olympic Committee. 2019-03-08. Retrieved 2020-03-26.
15. "Rio 2016 Individual Competition women - Olympic Archery". International Olympic Committee. 2019-03-08. Retrieved 2020-03-26.
16. Srinivasan, Kamesh (28 July 2012). "Men's archery team knocked out of Olympics". The Hindu. Chennai, India.