Pravin Jadhav

Indian archer pravin jadhav knocked out world number two Galsan Bazarzhapov in his opening match but suffered a heavy defeat to world champion Brady Ellison in the next to make a second round exit in the men's individual section at the Tokyo Olympics here on Wednesday.

Olympian couple Atanu Das and Deepika Kumari are all set to miss this year’s Asian Games, finishing poorly in the final selection trial at the Sports Authority of India Centre in Sonipat on Sunday.

India experienced a perfect start to their archery campaign at the Olympics on Saturday as the mixed duo of Deepika Kumari and pravin jadhav bounced back from behind to knock out Chinese Taipei and book a quarterfinal berth.

In 2012, a track and field athlete pravin jadhav had never imagined himself using a set of bow and arrows. Representing the country at the archery World Championships final was not even a distant dream.

Archer pravin jadhav knows that qualifying for the Olympic Games is never a cakewalk. But in pursuit of achieving his dream, he didn’t expect that he would be staying away from his family for almost 30 months.

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.

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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.

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The 92-year-old Shri Datta Samaj Tarun Mandal on Dwayer Lane in Pune Cantonment celebrates Ganeshotsav solely on the contributions from members. No `vargani’ (voluntary contribution) is sought.

Deepika Kumari will partner pravin jadhav in the archery mixed pair event of the Olympic Games after the debutant was preferred by the team think-tank ahead of her husband and more experienced Atanu Das based on form shown in Friday's qualification round.

Indian archer pravin jadhav had two choices to make as a young boy -- join his father as a wage labourer or run on the track for a better living.

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

The 32-inch rectangular TV in Amravati-based archery coach Praful Dange’s house could have passed for a circular target board on Wednesday as around 13 pairs of eyes fixated on it between 12.30 pm and 1.30 pm.

Top archers fell by the wayside as upsets marked the second National Ranking Archery Championship that concluded at Kharsawan in Jharkhand on Monday.

Deepika Kumari shrugged off the disappointment of missing out on an Olympic team quota place as she finished among top three in all the three qualifying rounds of the Archery World Cup Stage 3 in Paris on Tuesday. The second-seeded Indian women’s recurve team will face the winners of the tie between Spain and Sweden in the last 16.

Maharashtra government has given Rs 50 lakh assistance to five players each who have been selected to represent India for the Tokyo Olympics in 2021. Chief minister Uddhav Thackeray handed over the cheques to Swaroop Unhalkar, Rahi Sarnobat, pravin jadhav, Tejaswini Sawant and Avinash Sable at Varsha, the CM’s official residence.

Recently-engaged couple Atanu Das and Deepika Kumari made it to the Indian squad for the World Archery Championship to be held in s'Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands, from June 10-16. The squad was selected after a three-day trial in Bhubaneswar among the top 16 archers that were identified from an open selection trials held in Jan.

Four-time world championship silver medallist archer Jyothi Surekha Vennam produced a below-par effort and failed to secure a berth in the Indian women's compound team for the Asian Games at the ongoing selection trials on Tuesday.

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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.

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.

Returning from his maiden Olympics, Indian archer pravin jadhav received anxious calls from his family members, who were warned against renovating their tin house by "jealous neighbours". The 25-year-old grabbed eyeballs in an otherwise dismal campaign in Tokyo, finishing ahead of his senior India teammates, Atanu Das and Tarundeep Rai, in the ranking round.

For most of his life, archer pravin jadhav lived in a shack near a drain in the drought-prone Sarade village in Maharashtra's Satara district.