Deepika won a silver medal at the World Championships 2015 along ...
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Deepika won a silver medal at the World Championships 2015 along with Laxmirani Majhi and Rimil Buriuly to help India secure a quota for the 2016 Rio Olympics.
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Highest ranking: 1 (June 2012) Current ranking: 5 (June 2016)
The star of Indian archery, Deepika Kumari won silver at the Archery World Cup 2016 in Antalya in the mixed recurve team with Atanu Das. India lost to South Korea 5-1 in the final. In the women's recurve event of the Archery World Cup in Shanghai she scored 686/720 to equal the world record set by South Korea's Ki Bo-Bae in 2015.
Deepika was part of the Indian women’s team that won a silver medal at the World Championships 2015 in Copenhagen along with Laxmirani Majhi and Rimil Buriuly and bagged Archery World Cup second stage bronze in the individual recurve event to help India secure a quota for the 2016 Rio
Olympics
. Pairing with Jayanta Talukdar, she won a bronze medal at the Asian Archery Championships in the Recurve Mixed Team event. An individual silver medal followed in October at the Mexico World Cup. She added another bronze medal (recurved mixed team) to her kitty at the Asian Championship in Bangkok.
In 2012, Deepika won several medals on the world stage and became world No 1 in the women's recurve archery. At the 2012 London Olympics, Deepika competed in the individual and team events. This is her second trip to the Summer Games.
She has also has won three individual silver medals at World Cup finals.
Major achievements
Silver, Mixed Recurve Team, Archery World Cup 2016, Antalya Silver, World Championships 2015, Denmark Gold, Recurve Team World Cup 2014, Poland Bronze, Individual, World Cup 2014, Poland Gold, Recurve Team, World Cup 2013, Colombia Gold, Recurve Team, World Cup 2013, Poland Silver, Recurve Individual, World Cup Final 2012, Tokyo Gold, Recurve Individual, World Cup Stage 2 2012, Antalya Silver, Recurve Team, World Cup Stage 1 2012, Shanghai Silver, Recurve Team, Asian Grand Prix 2012, Bangkok Bronze, Recurve Team, Asian Archery Championships 2012, Iran Silver, Recurve Individual, World Cup Final 2011, Istanbul Gold, Recurve Team, World Cup Stage 4 2011, Shanghai Bronze, Recurve Individual, World Cup Stage 4 2011, Shanghai Silver, Recurve Individual, World Cup Stage 3 2011, USA Silver, Recurve Team, World Cup Stage 3 2011, USA Silver, Recurve Team, World Championships 2011, Torino Bronze, Recurve Team, World Cup Stage 2 2011, Antalya Bronze, Recurve Team, Asian Games 2010, China Gold, Recurve Individual, CWG 2010, New Delhi Silver, Recurve Team, World Cup Stage 4 2010, Shanghai Silver, Recurve Team, World Cup Stage 3 2010, USA
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