Jayanta Talukdar (born 2 March 1986 in Guwahati) is an Indian archer from Assam. He has won individual gold Medal in the 2006 Archery World Cup.
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Medal record
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Career
editTalukdar was part of the Indian team that won the silver medal at the 2004 Junior World Championships. He followed up with a gold medal at the FITA Meteksan World Cup in 2006, becoming the first Indian archer (bhartiya tirandaj)[clarification needed] to win gold at the event.[1] In 2006 he also won a gold medal at the South Asian Games and a bronze medal in the team competition at the 2006 Asian Games.
Despite losses in 2009, the Tata Steel sponsored Talukdar was seeded Number 1 for the 2009 World Cup in Copenhagen.[2]
On 21 June 2012, Jayanta Talukdar made it to the Indian men's recurve archers team for London Olympics 2012, he competed in both the men's individual and the men's team events.[3][4] He lost to Jacob Wukie in the first round of the individual event, and India lost to Japan in the first round of the team event.[5][6]
In November, 2015, he won Bronze medal in the 2015 Asian Archery Championships with Deepika Kumari in the Recurve Mixed Team event.[7]
Tokyo Olympics
editHe is most probably in for the Tokyo 2021 Olympic Games.[8]
Awards
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Jayanta was awarded the Arjuna Award in archery in August, 2007.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b "Jayanta, Assamese archer wins Arjuna Award". Assam Times. 10 August 2007. Archived from the original on 25 July 2011. Retrieved 22 September 2009.
- ^ "Talukdar eyes World Cup gold". Press Trust of India. 22 September 2009. Retrieved 22 September 2009.
- ^ "Indian archery team books Olympic ticket". 23 June 2012.
- ^ "Jayanta Talukdar Bio, Stats, and Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 7 March 2016. Retrieved 3 February 2016.
- ^ "individual (FITA Olympic round – 70m) men results – Archery – London 2012 Olympics". olympic.org. Retrieved 3 February 2016.
- ^ "team (FITA Olympic round – 70m) men results – Archery – London 2012 Olympics". olympic.org. Retrieved 3 February 2016.
- ^ "19th Asian Championships + CQT Asia". World Archery. Retrieved 6 November 2015.
- ^ "Selection trials for Olympic archery qualifiers in March". Olympic Channel. Retrieved 2 February 2021.
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