22 Facts About Dola Banerjee

Dola Banerjee is an Indian sportswoman who competes in archery.

Dola Banerjee is daughter of Ashok Banerjee and Kalpana Banerjee.

Dola Banerjee studied in Baranagar Rajkumari Memorial Girls High School.

Dola Banerjee started archery at the Baranagar Archery Club in 1990 when she was barely 9 years of age.

Dola Banerjee represented at the tender age of 16 at the Youth World Championship, San Diego in 1996.

Dola Banerjee was placed 13th in the women's individual ranking round with a 72-arrow score of 642.

Dola Banerjee was a member of the 8th-place Indian women's archery team.

Dola Banerjee has won more than 16 Gold, 3 Silver and 8 Bronze medals for the country.

Dola Banerjee won the second international gold medal of her career when she won the individual recurve title of the fourth leg of the Meteksan World Cup archery at Dover in August 2007.

Dola Banerjee became world champion in archery by winning the gold medal in the women's individual recurve competition at the archery world cup held at Dubai, in November 2007.

Dola Banerjee is the second woman archer to be honored with the Arjuna award by the Government of India in 2005.

Dola Banerjee won 30 medals out of a possibility of 30 medals.

Dola Banerjee was honored by the Indian Government when she was awarded the Arjuna Award in 2005 for her excellent contribution to Archery.

Dola Banerjee was a Member in the Sports Development body of the West Bengal Government since July 2011 and playing a key role in development of sports in her state.

Dola Banerjee was a member of the Steering Committee for Youth Affairs and Sports for the Twelfth Five Year Plan.

Dola Banerjee is actively involved with Baranagar Archery Club, her local club where she started her career, for the development of the sport.

Dola Banerjee has been part of the Railways Sports Promotion Board contingent, traveling to the London Olympics 2012 and Rio Olympics 2016.

Dola Banerjee represented India in the women's individual as well as team events at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, but failed to reach the finals in both events.

Dola Banerjee teamed up with Pranitha Vardhineni and Bombayala Devi in the team event.

Dola Banerjee won a bronze medal in the recurve individual event.

Dola Banerjee is married to a corporate professional, Medhadeep Banerjee.

Dola Banerjee is a cousin of the singers Shaan and Sagarika.