Jayanta Talukdar
Indian archer
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Jayanta Talukdar (born 2 March 1986 in Guwahati) is an Indian archer from Assam. He has won individual gold Medal in the 2006 Archery World Cup.
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Medal record
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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 Olympic Games.[8]
Awards
Jayanta was awarded the Arjuna Award in archery in August, 2007.[1]
