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Rajat Chauhan

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Rajat Chauhan
Personal information
Born (1994-12-30) December 30, 1994 (age 29)
Sport
Country India
SportArchery
Medal record
Men's Archery
Representing  India
World Championships
Silver medal – second place 2015 Copenhagen Individual
Asian Games
Gold medal – first place 2014 Incheon Compound team
Silver medal – second place 2018 Jakarta Compound team
Updated on 21 December 2017

Rajat Chauhan (born 30 December 1994[1]) is an Indian Archer . Rajat Chauhan created history by winning a silver medal in the World Archery Championships in Copenhagen. He won the Gold Medal Asian Games 2014 in Incheon in the men's compound archery team event along with Abhishek Verma and Sandeep Kumar. In 2014 he also became the first Indian compound archer to qualify for the Archery World Cup final, and in 2015 reached the final of the 2015 World Archery Championships. [2][3]

Other Achievements

1st place, gold medalist(s) 2015 Asian Archery Championships: Men's Individual[4]

1st place, gold medalist(s) 2015 Asian Archery Championships: Men's Team[4]

Awards

The President, Shri Pranab Mukherjee presenting the Arjuna Award for the year-2016 to Rajat Chauhan for Archery, in a glittering ceremony, at Rashtrapati Bhavan, in New Delhi on August 29, 2016

References

  1. ^ [1]
  2. ^ "Asian Games 2014: Indian men's compound team wins gold; women settle for bronze". Hindustan Times. September 27, 2014. Archived from the original on 27 September 2014. Retrieved 27 September 2014.
  3. ^ "Asian Games LIVE: Indian men's compound archery team wins historic gold; women settle for bronze". Dattaraj Thaly. Zee News. 27 September 2014. Retrieved 27 September 2014.
  4. ^ a b "19th Asian Championships + CQT Asia". World Archery. Retrieved 2015-11-07.