Tarundeep Rai

India's women's recurve team achieved a monumental victory, defeating 10-time Olympic champions South Korea 5-1 to reach the Archery World Cup Stage 2 final. Deepika Kumari and her teammates displayed exceptional composure, securing a medal and setting up a gold medal match against China. The men's team, however, faced an early exit.

Lucknow gears up for the Times of India Sports Awards on March 21, 2026, celebrating India's athletic excellence in 2025. The event will honour top performers across various sports, with a special focus on archery.

tarundeep rai will take on France's Gael Prevost in the bronze medal match of the men's recurve individual event of the World Cup Stage III at Ogden in United States.

tarundeep rai who became the first Indian to win an individual archery medal in the Asian Games after he bagged a silver, visited his coach RB Tamang and showed him the medal.

India's archery team, including veteran archers Deepika Kumari and tarundeep rai, will begin their Paris Olympics journey on Thursday. The team, consisting of six archers, will compete in all five medal events, marking their first full team participation since the London 2012 Olympics. Ranking rounds are crucial for India's archery prospects.

Sikkim is on its way to having an archery academy. Chief minister Pawan Chamling has agreed to a proposal by the Sikkim Archery Association.

Archers tarundeep rai of Services and Rahul Banerjee of Railways have been named in the Indian men's recurve team for the first three World Cups.

tarundeep rai remains the rare Indian sportsperson whose preparation for the Tokyo Olympics has not been affected much due to the pandemic. The recurve archer decided not to return home and stayed back at the Army Sports Institute in Pune where the national camp resumed this month.

A 21-member Indian archery team, comprising the likes of tarundeep rai and Deepika Kumari, will leave on Saturday for the Wroclaw, Poland to participate in the World Cup Stage IV starting August 19.

tarundeep rai, who was part of Indian team that won the silver medal in the Archery World Cup Stage I, said the team could have won the ultimate prize.

tarundeep rai, who won a silver in the recently-concluded Asian Games, returned home to a grand welcome with people lining the streets to greet him at his home town.

The Indian men's archery team secured third place in the Olympic ranking round, ensuring a spot in the quarterfinals. Standout performances came from Dhiraj Bommadevara and the mixed team duo of Ankita Bhakat and Bommadevara. They are all set for further competitions in Paris.

Following is India's schedule on the opening day of the Tokyo Olympics on Friday.

Atanu Das and Deepika Kumari will be the first Indian couple to take part in the same event in an Olympic Games as both recurve archers earned their tickets to the Tokyo Games after the 3-day final selection trials concluded at Army Sports Institute in Pune on Monday.

Indian men's archery team of Pravin Jadhav, Atanu Das and tarundeep rai downed Kazakhstan 6-2 to set up a quarterfinal clash against heavyweights Korea at the Tokyo Olympics here on Monday.

The sports ministry has added 39 more athletes, including ace archers Deepika Kumari and tarundeep rai, to the Target Olympic Podium scheme (TOP).

Dola Banerjee and Mangal Singh Champia failed to make the cut as youngsters Seema Verma and Sharan Vishwas were selected for the Archery World Cup Stage I .

The Indian men's recurve team of Jayanta Talukdar, tarundeep rai and Rahul Banerjee settled for a silver after going down to their opponents from Great Britain in the Archery World Cup Stage II in Antalya.

Four Indians including Deepika Kumari and tarundeep rai advanced into third round even as Atanu Das crashed out in the recurve individual section of the Archery World Cup Stage III on Wednesday.

The Olympic-bound Indian archers on Wednesday took their second shots of COVID-19 vaccine, becoming the first fully vaccinated lot of athletes from the country ahead of the Tokyo Games.

Olympians Jayanta Talukdar, tarundeep rai and L Bombayla Devi have made a comeback to the Indian squad for the first time this year after making the cut in the recurve event for the upcoming World Cup leg IV in Berlin.

Indian archer tarundeep rai faced a narrow defeat in the individual men’s recurve round of 32 at the Paris Olympics, losing to Tom Hall of Great Britain. The match was tightly contested, with both archers tied after the first set. Hall gained a slight lead in the second set, but Rai fought back to win the third set. Hall edged the fourth set, and the final set ended in a tie, ultimately favouring Hall. Despite the loss, Rai's performance reflected his skill and determination.

Three-time 'World Cup Final' silver medallist Deepika Kumari today shook off her erratic form to make it to the Indian squad for the upcoming Archery World Cup and Asian Games.

India secures quotas for both men's and women's archery teams at the next Olympics in Paris after finishing first among non-qualified countries, as per PTI.

Ace Indian archers tarundeep rai and Rahul Banerjee are presently undergoing a 10-day training session at Paljor Stadium, in preparation for next year's London Olympics.

Indian archers would look to make amends of a forgettable start to their Tokyo Olympics campaign when the men's team takes the field for the elimination round on Monday. The men's trio of Pravin Jadhav, Atanu Das and tarundeep rai all finished outside top-30 in the ranking round to get a ninth seeding. The team would start off against Kazakhstan.

Deepika Kumari finished second while tarundeep rai ended on top in women's and men's senior division recurve qualification round on the opening day of the 3rd National Ranking tournament.

India's compound archers' preparation for the World Championships in the Netherlands has suffered a blow, as the Sports Authority of India (SAI) has turned down the request to fund their acclimatisation-cum-training camp in Antalya, Turkey from May 27 to June 8.

All eyes are on ace archer Deepika Kumari, who is struggling for form, as the two-phase selection trial for the Asian Games and World Cup Stage IV has begun on Thursday.

The Indian men's archery team, comprising the likes of stalwart tarundeep rai, Dhiraj Bommadevara and Pravin Jadhav, came up short against a fired up young Turkish team to be knocked out 2-6 in the quarterfinals at the Olympics in Paris on Monday.