Invitational Commonwealth Games Test Event
March 07-13, 2010, Yamuna Sports Complex, Delhi
Day 4 - Final Day
India made a clean sweep of individual medals in the recurve sections but came a cropper in the compound bow category on the final day of the four-day Commonwealth Games Test Event at the Yamuna Sports Complex in Delhi on March 12, 2010.
Tarundeep Rai lived up to the billing as the top seed to win the men’s recurve title stopping compatriot Kapil Singh by six sets to two in the final. National Champion Rahul Banerjee, who lost to Kapil in the semifinals, annexed the bronze medal beating Malaysia’s Chu Sian Cheng 6-4.
Rai is the gold medal winner at the South Asian Games individual recurve section and before that had won a gold medal in the fifth Asian GP at Dhaka.
The biggest disappointment is Olympian Mangal Singh Champia. The big built, cheerful Champia has been travelling with the Indian men’s recurve team for almost two years and won a number of team gold medals but his record in the individual section is rather miserable. Having stood second overall in the Beijing Olympic Games’ qualification, Champia was shown the door in the second round of the individual section by the ultimate bronze medal winner.
Since winning his last individual medal, that too a bronze, in the second Commonwealth Archery championship at Yangoon, Myanmar, in 2006, Champia has nothing to show to his credit. This has put a big question mark on his ``match temperament.'' Having persisted with and given a long run with the National team without any success, chief National coach, Limba Ram, has to take a call on whether to persist with him or discard this talented yet temperamental archer before the XIX Commonwealth Games at Delhi this October.
Deepika Kumari was a revelation. The National women’s recurve champion proved his worth with a gold medal winning performance overcoming such big names like Olympian Laishram Bombayla Devi, Sushma and Chekrovolu Swuro, all her compatriots, in the quarterfinals, semifinals and the final.
The cadet world champion looks India’s biggest bet for an Olympic medal in two year’s time at London. Another Olympian V. Pranitha took the bronze medal depriving Sushma of the honour.
Muhammad Zaki Mahazan of Malaysia won the men’s compound individual gold medal defeating Chungda Sherpa 7-3. National champion C. Srither took the bronze beating Asian champion Isaiah Rajender Sanam 6-2.
Lucy Marie O’Sullivan of Jersey defeated India’s Gagandeep Kaur Bawa 7-3 to take the women’s compound individual gold medal Nichola Rae Simpson of England took the bronze medal beating Tracey McGowan of Scotland 6-2.
Day 3
Expectedly, India picked up both the team gold medals in the recurve
section but came a cropper in the compound bow division settling for
silver in the women’s side and a bronze in the men’s group.
The individual finals will be played on the final day, March 12, 2010.
The Indian men’s recurve team, comprising of Kapil, Mangal Singh
Champia and Tarundeep Rai, outplayed England 213-190 in the semifinals
and downed Malaysia in the final 218-211. The bronze medal went to
England which defeated Scotland 210-203.
India – Gold; Malaysia – Silver and England – Bronze.
India’s trio of Dola Banerjee, Laishram Bombayla Devi and Rimil
Buriuly, was in terrific form crossing the 200 points mark, not once
but twice, in its march towards the gold medal. India scored 204 as
against Malaysia’s 190 in the final. In the semifinals, India defeated
Singapore 205-168 and Malaysia ousted Wales 193-153. Singapore
overcame Wales 190-183 for the bronze medal.
India – Gold; Malaysia – Silver and Singapore – Bronze.
England won both the compound gold medal with easy. The English men’s
compound team edged past Malaysia 232-229 in the final to win the gold
medal. England had knocked out India, comprising I.R. Sanam, Chungda
Sherpa and C. Srither, 226-225 and Malaysia ousted Wales 225-217.
India won the bronze medal beating Wales 224-205.
England – Gold; Malaysia – Silver and India – Bronze.
The English women had to fight really hard to get the better of India,
consisting of Gagandeep Kaur Bawa, Vrushali Gorle and Namita Yadav, a
fairly young and inexperienced side, 222 (30) – 222 (25). After the
tie, the teams were given three arrows each in which England got three
10s. Indian ladies managed only 25 points to lose the tie-breaker.
India was too good for Scotland in the semifinals winning the match
221-211 and England managed to win against Malaysia 219-214. The
bronze medal went to Malaysian with a 217-209 victory over Scotland.
England – Gold; India – Silver and Malaysia – Bronze.
Day 2
Indians crowded the semifinal of the individual events of the Invitational Commonwealth Games Test Event at the Yamuna Sports Complex in Delhi on March 10, 2010. The Indian teams also figured in the semifinals of all the four categories of team championship by virtue of their seeding.
The elimination of Jayanta Talukdar and Pawan Xalxo in the pre-quarterfinals of the men’s recurve individual event was the talking point of the second day’s action. Talukdar was felled by compatriot Thupuvoyi Swuro in the pre-quarterfinals.
The men’s semifinal line-up is as follows: Tarundeep Rai vs Chu Sian Cheng of Malaysia and Kapil vs Rahul Banerjee. In the team event, India will take on England and Scotland will challenge Malaysia.
It was a complete sweep in the women’s individual recurve section as four out of eight remained to fight for the three medals. Here too the loss of top seed Rimil Buriuly shocked the followers of Indian archery. She lost to English woman Louise Emma Colville in the pre-quarterfinals. The semifinal line-up will be Sushma vs Deepika Kumari and Chekrovolu Swuro vs V. Pranitha. In the team semifinals, India will take on Singapore while Wales will play Malaysia.
Surprisingly, three of the four men in the compound individual semifinals are Indians. Top seed C. Srither will play Chungda Sherpa and second seed Isaiah Rajender Sanam will be challenged by Muhammad Zaki Mahazan of Malaysia. In the team semifinals, Malaysia will face Wales and India will take on England.
The biggest disappointment was in the women’s individual compound section where only Gagandeep Kaur Bawa is the lone entry to have made it. Out of eight, only two made it to the quarterfinals where Gagandeep stopped compatriot Jhano Hansdah. The semifinal line-up will be Tracy McGowan of Scotland vs Lucy Marie O’Sullivan of Jersey and Gagandeep vs Nichola Rae Simpson of England. Malaysia will challenge England in the team semifinals while Scotland will face India.
For the first time, the individual eliminations were played in a new format of best of three sets. Each set was a contest of six arrows by either of the archers with 60 points available to each. Whoever won the set earned two points and a tie fetched each one point. An archer who reached four points won the contest. If the archers were tied at one set each, the match went into the third set where both shot six more arrows each to decide the match.
This rule will come into force from April 1, 2010. This event being a test event, it was decided to introduce the new rule. The team championship is being played on the old format for a total of 240 points.
The semifinals and the finals of all the individual championship will be of best of five sets with the winner needing six points to win (three sets). The rule change by FITA is aimed at giving the better and consistent archers a level playing field.
Day 1
India's domination in the recurve section of the Commonwealth Games Test Event at New Delhi was almost complete but its compound campaign left a lot to be desired on the opening day of the four-day competition at the Yamuna Sports Complex on March 9, 2010.
The first day saw qualification round in both men's and women's recurve and compound categories. On the opening day, archers shot 72 arrows over 70m distance as followed in Olympics and Asian Games.
Tarundeep Rai (668/720 points), Rahul Banerjee (667) and Kapil Singh (665) occupied the top three spots to give India a brilliant start to its campaign aimed at garnering maximum medals at the XIX Commonwealth Games later this year. Olympian Mangal Singh Champia (659) was fifth, ranked No. 4 in the FITA ranking, Jayanta Talukdar (658) was sixth, Pawan Xalxo (650) was seventh and Atanu Das (647), who earned India a quota place in the Youth Olympic Games at Singapore, was ninth and Thupuvoyi Swuro (639), brother of veteran women archery Chekrovolu Swuro, was 11th in a field of 27.
Out of six teams in fray, India men’s recurve side emerged on top with a total of 1992. The Indian team, comprising Mangal Singh Champia, Tarundeep Rai and Kapil Singh, did very well after the most experienced and well drilled team of Jayanta Talukdar, Rahul Banerjee and Mangal Singh broke up for the first time after almost two years of representing the country in international events.
Malaysia was second with 1941 and Scotland was third with 1881 among six teams.
It was a complete sweep in the women’s recurve in individual qualification. Led by in-form Rimil Buriuly (663/720), all the eight Indian archers took the top eight places. The only disappointing note was Olympians Laishram Bombayla Devi (645) and Dola Banerjee (637) finishing fourth and sixth respectively. The other Beijing Olympian V. Pranitha (649) was second and Chekrovolu Swuro (646) was third.
World cadet champion Deepika Kumari (645) was fifth. Laxmi Rani Majhi (619) and Sushma Arya (611) were seventh and eighth respectively in a field of 23.
The Indian threesome of Dola, Rimil and Bombayla accumulated 1945 points to take the top spot in the team placing. Malaysia (1775) was second and Wales (1732) was third in a five-team field.
Compound section:
National champion Chinnaraju Srither held his own to take the top spot with a total of 688 out of 720 points in the men’s compound individual qualification. Junior boy C. Jignas, a ward of former National champion Cherukuri Lenin, was third with 685. Out of 21 competitors, the third best placed Indian was Chungda Sherpa (680) at fourth. World junior champion in 2006, Palton Hansda (674) was a poor ninth, Jayantilal Ninamo (67)) was 12th. Reigning Asian individual champion Isaiah Rajender Sanam (666) was 15th. Kh. Ratan Singh (666) was 16th and up and coming Ritul Chatterjee (649) was 18th.
Malaysia pipped India by a point to take the first place with 2035 points. India, represented by Sanam, Sherpa and Srither, was second with 2034 and England was third with 2022 among five teams.
Three best Indian entries for this meet, Gagandeep Kaur Bawa (661/720), Namita Yadav (657) and Vrushali Gorle (653) were placed a disappointing sixth, 10th and 12th respectively. Bheigyabati Chanu (669) was the best placed Indian in the women’s compound individual qualification at third. The top two places went to English ladies.
Ashrita Kerketta (658), National champion Jhano Hansdah (651), S. Jayalakshmi (643) and Manjudha Soy (640), who returned to international competition after a gap of three years were eighth, 14th, 18th and 20th respectively among 24 archers.
Expectedly, the English women’s team took the top slot with a total of 2004. India, with Vrushali, Gagandeep and Namita as team members, was second with 1971 and Scotland was third with 1953 in a five-team field.
Technical Details of Venues and other information about Invitational Commonwealth Games Test Event Delhi 2010
All set for Invitational Archery Test Event at Yamuna Sports Complex
New Delhi, 6th March 2010: With just two days to go the Invitational CWG Archery Test Event, Prof. Vijay Kumar Malhotra, President of Archery Association of India said in a press conference that a high quality competition is expected to unfold over the next few days at the venue of Commonwealth Games 2010, Yamuna Sports Complex, Delhi from 8th to 12th March 2010. More than 100 men and women archers and 45 team officials from ten commonwealth countries including Bangladesh, England, Welsh, Malaysia, Jersey, Sri Lanka, Scotland, New Zealand and host India have registered for test event in four categories - Recurve Men, Recurve Women, Compound Men and Compound Women.
While expressing his satisfaction over the preparation of Test Event, Prof. Malhotra enunciated that organizational preparation of the event is in full swing by holding regular meeting with multiple agencies and stakeholders which includes various functional areas of OC-CWG, Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sport, Delhi Police, Venue Owner - DDA and other concerned departments.
Prof. Malhotra explained that this competition will be organised following the new FITA set rules in both Recurve and Compound divisions. Official practice will be held in the morning and afternoon sessions of 8th March, 2010 (Monday). The qualification round will be slated on 9th March (Tuesday) and based on the scoring of 72 Arrows at 70 Mtrs, pairing of Archers will be drawn for the elimination rounds to be staged on 10th March and 11th March. The top ranked archers and teams will get to meet the bottom placed and so on. The Medal matches and Medal ceremony will be on 11th and 12th March.
Indian Archery Team
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Recurve Men
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Recurve Women
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| Tarundeep Rai |
Team & Individual |
Rimil Buruily |
Team & Individual |
| Mangal Singh |
Team & Individual |
Dola Banerjee |
Team & Individual |
| Kapil |
Team & Individual |
L. Bombayla Devi |
Team & Individual |
| Jayanta Talukdar |
Individual |
Deepika Kumari |
Individual |
| Rahul Banerjee |
Individual |
Chekrovolu Swuro |
Individual |
| Thupuvoyi Swuro |
Individual |
Laxmi rani Majhi |
Individual |
| Pawan xalxo |
Individual |
V. Pranitha |
Individual |
| Atanu Das |
Individual |
Sushma |
Individual |
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Compound Men
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Compound Women
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| C. Srither |
Team & Individual |
Gagandeep |
Team & Individual |
| I.R. Sanam |
Team & Individual |
Vrushali Gorle |
Team & Individual |
| Chungda Sherpa |
Team & Individual |
Namita Yadav |
Team & Individual |
| Palton Hansda |
Individual |
Jhanu Hansdah |
Individual |
| Jayantilal Nanoma |
Individual |
Jalalakshmi Sarikonda |
Individual |
| Ritul Chatterjee |
Individual |
Cheigyabati Chanu |
Individual |
| Ch. Jignas |
Individual |
Ashritha Kerketta |
Individual |
| Kh. Rattan Singh |
Individual |
Manjudha Soy |
Individual |
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Coaches & Supporting Staff
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| Shri. Limba Ram |
Chief Coach |
Shri. Dharmendra Tiwary |
Coach |
| Shri. Richpal Singh |
Coach |
Shri Lokesh Chand |
Coach |
| Ms. Purmina Mahato |
Coach |
Shri. Harender Singh |
Coach |
| Ms. D. Saiswary Devi |
Coach |
Shri. Lalram Sanga Changte |
Coach |
| Shri. R.B. Tamang |
Coach |
Shashi Prakash Saraf |
Sports Analyst |
| Ms. K. Nita |
Physiotherapist |
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