Deepika Kumari

Country
India
Birth date		Age
13/06/1994 - RATU RANCHI		18
Height	Weight	Gender
Not provided	Not provided	F
Sport
Archery Archery Women's Individual Women's Team

Rank	Event	Year	Location
World Championships
2	Team W	2011	Turin, ITA
5	Team X	2011	Turin, ITA
17	Individual	2011	Turin, ITA
Asian Games
3	Team W	2010	Guangzhou, CHN
4	Individual	2010	Guangzhou, CHN
Asian Championships
3	Team W	2011	Tehran, IRI
World Cup Final
2	Individual	2011	Istanbul, TUR
World Cup
1	Individual	2012	Antalya, TUR
2	Individual	2011	Ogden, UT, USA
2	Team X	2011	Ogden, UT, USA
2	Team X	2011	Antalya, TUR
2	Individual	2010	Shanghai, CHN
3	Individual	2011	Shanghai, CHN
World Junior Championships
1	Individual	2011	Legnica, POL
3	Team W	2011	Legnica, POL

Nickname

Deepa. (archery.org, 13 Sep 2011)

Occupation

Student

Education

KMCT College, India

Language(s) spoken

Hindi

Club name

Tata Archery Academy , Jamshedpur, IND

Coach

Dharmendra Tiwary, Purnima Mahto (IND) (archery.org, 13 Sep 2011; tribuneindia.com, 05 Dec 2009)

Handedness

Right (FITA, 05 Feb 2010)

Other sports

Cousin Vidya Kumari is also an archer. (indiansportswomen.org, 07 Sep 2011)

Debut

2008 for India (FITA, 05 Feb 2010)

Additional information

Start of sporting career
She took up the sport in Kharsawan before moving to the Tata Archery Academy. (hindustantimes.com, 11 Oct 2010)

Reason for taking up this sport
Her cousin was an archer and encouraged her to take up the sport. (siasat.com, 10 Oct 2010; hindustantimes.com, 11 Oct 2010; epaper.indiatimes.com, Oct 2010)

Ambitions
To win an Olympic gold medal. (siasat.com, 10 Oct 2010)

 Training
Her training regime begins at 5am with running and yoga. Shooting practice runs from 8.30am until 4.30pm. She fits in time for her studies after dinner. (tatanagaronline.com, 13 Sep 2011)

Hero
Indian archers Jayanta Talukdar and Dola Banerjee. (tribuneindia.com, 05 Dec 2009)

Sporting philosophy / motto
"It is not impossible to achieve anything in life; because if you have confidence in yourself then you can even go to the moon." (Youtube.com, 11 Aug 2011)

Awards
Outstanding Performance at Commonwealth Games [Female] Award at Sahara Sports Awards 2010 for winning two gold medals [individual and team] at the Games. (indiansportswomen.org, 07 Sep 2011)

She became only the second Indian [after Palton Hansda in 2006] to win a world championship title when she won gold in the junior compound individual event at the World Archery Championships in Ogden, USA, in 2009. (indiansportswomen.org, 07 Sep 2011)

General
DOUBTING FATHER

Her father, Ranchi, was initially sceptical of her ambition to be a top archer. "From where I come from, people do not know about archery," she said. "So when my father heard I wanted to pick up archery, he was not very happy. But I was determined. I was the first even in the extended family to play any sport. My mother is conservative and was against my decision. But now they - my parents and my younger sister - are genuinely proud of me." (tehelka.com, 28 Aug 2010; hindustantimes.com, 11 Oct 2010),, ,,,,