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Jayanta Talukdar
Personal information
Born (1986-03-02) March 2, 1986 (age 38)
Guwahati, India
Medal record
Men's archery
Representing  India
World Championships
Silver medal – second place 2005 Madrid Men's Team
World Cup
Gold medal – first place 2006 Merida Individual
Asian Games
Bronze medal – third place 2006 Doha Team
Bronze medal – third place 2010 Guangzhou Team
Asian Archery Championships
Gold medal – first place 2007 Xi'an Recurve Team
Gold medal – first place 2013 Taipei Mixed Team
Silver medal – second place 2017 Dhaka Recurve Team
Bronze medal – third place 2015 Taipei Mixed Team
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Bangkok Recurve Team
Bronze medal – third place 2005 New Delhi Recurve Team

Jayanta Talukdar (born 2 March 1986 in Guwahati) is an Indian archer. He has won individual gold Medal in the 2006 Archery World Cup.

Career

Talukdar 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

He is most probably in for the tokyo 2021 Olympics games [8]

Awards

The President, Smt. Pratibha Patil presenting the Arjuna Award -2006 to Shri Jayanta Talukdar for Archery at a glittering function, in New Delhi on August 29, 2007

Jayanta was awarded the Arjuna Award in archery in August, 2006.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "Jayanta, Assamese archer wins Arjuna Award". Assam Times. 10 August 2007. Retrieved 22 September 2009.
  2. ^ "Talukdar eyes World Cup gold". Press Trust of India. 22 September 2009. Retrieved 22 September 2009.
  3. ^ "Indian archery team books Olympic ticket". 23 June 2012.
  4. ^ "Jayanta Talukdar Bio, Stats, and Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 7 March 2016. Retrieved 3 February 2016.
  5. ^ "individual (FITA Olympic round - 70m) men results - Archery - London 2012 Olympics". www.olympic.org. Retrieved 3 February 2016.
  6. ^ "team (FITA Olympic round - 70m) men results - Archery - London 2012 Olympics". www.olympic.org. Retrieved 3 February 2016.
  7. ^ "19th Asian Championships + CQT Asia". World Archery. Retrieved 6 November 2015.
  8. ^ "Selection trials for Olympic archery qualifiers in March". Olympic Channel. Retrieved 2 February 2021.


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