1. Deepika Kumari was born on 13 June 1994 and is an Indian professional archer.
19 Facts About Deepika Kumari
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Deepika Kumari won a gold medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in the women's individual recurve event.
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Deepika Kumari won a gold there in the women's team recurve event with Dola Banerjee and Bombayala Devi.
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Deepika Kumari made her first breakthrough in 2005 when she entered the Arjun Archery Academy at Kharsawan, an institute set up by Meera Munda, wife of Jharkhand's chief minister Arjun Munda.
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Deepika Kumari returned home once in her first three years there, only after having won the Cadet World Championship title in November 2009.
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Deepika Kumari has long been seen as the one to finally get India its first medal in archery.
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Deepika Kumari became the second Indian to win the title after Palton Hansda won the junior compound competition at the 2006 Archery World Cup in Merida, Mexico.
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Deepika Kumari won the 11th Youth World Archery Championship held in Ogden, Utah, United States in 2009, at the age of fifteen.
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Deepika Kumari won a gold medal in the same competition in the women's team recurve event, alongside Dola Banerjee and Bombayala Devi.
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At the Delhi Commonwealth games 2010, Deepika Kumari won two gold medals, one in the individual event and the other in the women's team recurve event.
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Later at the Asian Games of 2010, held in Guangzhou, China, Deepika Kumari missed out on a medal after she lost to Kwon Un Sil of North Korea in the bronze-medal play-off of the women's individual archery event.
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In May 2012, Deepika Kumari won her first World Cup individual stage recurve gold medal at Antalya, Turkey.
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Deepika Kumari beat Korea's Lee Sung-Jin by six set points to four in the final.
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In London Olympics 2012, Deepika Kumari lost against Amy Oliver of Great Britain in the opening round, attributing a relatively poor performance to fever and high winds.
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In 2014, Deepika Kumari was featured by Forbes as one of their '30 under 30'.
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Deepika Kumari was the part of the team that qualified for 2016 Rio Olympics.
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However, in the round of 16, Deepika Kumari went down to Taipei's Tan Ya-ting with a score of 0 against 6.
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In November 2019, Deepika Kumari secured an Olympic quota at the Continental Qualification Tournament being held on the sidelines of the 21st Asian Archery Championships in Bangkok.
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Deepika Kumari India won 3 gold medals in the Archery's World Cup Stage 3 tournament in Paris 2021.