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The article does not say how old the "young archer"
is and whether TATA is looking after his sporting interests.
Is there anything we can do to further encourage
this rising "Star"?
Anjan
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Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 11:39
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Subject: [Assam] Great News
Guwahati, Friday, July 8,
2005
 City archer Jayanta makes India
proud
By Pabitra Gogoi
GUWAHATI,
July 7 June 26 last was a historic day for Indian sports as its archers won
silver medal in the Madrid World Cup for the first time that day. The Indian
quartet comprising Jayanta Talukdar, Tarundeep Rai, Gautam Singh and Robin
Sing lost the final to the Koreans 232-244. Jayanta, a city boy and now an
inmate of the Jamshedpur-based Tata Academy, really made the country
proud.
The Robinhood of the city arrived home this evening after
participating in the national championship in Lucknow, where he won a silver
medal, immediately after returning from Madrid. His family members received
him at the LPGB International Airport.
Jayanta, the youngest son of
Ranjan Talukdar, had taken to the sport in 1999 when he was a student of
Dispur Vidyalaya. Inspired by his elder brother Nikhilesh, Jayanta immediately
started hitting the bulls eye and was picked up by the Tata Academy in 2002.
In the very next year, he won two gold medals in the Asian Junior Championship
held in Jamshedpur.
He became a champion archer within a short time
after joining the Tata Academy and captured three gold medals in the Asian
Grand Prix held in Malaysia in 2004. He also won a silver medal in the London
world junior championship that very year.
This year he entered the
senior category and won gold medals in both FITA and Olympic rounds in the
Kochi and Hyderabad nationals held in February and April respectively. Prior
to the Madrid Championship, he visited Turkey in May for the European Grand
Prix. Now Jayanta is not only a national champion but also the most important
member of the Indian team.
How he took up this sport when it is not so
familiar in Guwahati? The proud father revealed that following the footsteps
of his brother Nikhilesh who was also a talented archer, Jayanta started
practising with an indigenous bow. His mother Satyabati Talukdar prepared a
target with straw. Later the senior Talukdar brought two bows for his sons
from Shillong. Pointing to the bows, now carefully kept mementoes, at their
Bagharbari, Panjabari residence here, Ranjan Talukdar said these are the
equipments which made his son a world class archer.
Talking to The
Assam Tribune Jayanta said that he will proceed to Bangalore on July 15,
and will join the national camp for the Asian Championship wich will be held
in New Delhi in November next. Although my goal is to win medal in the
Beijing Olympics, I am at present concentrating for the Asian Championship and
the Asian Games, Jayanta said.
On Madrid championship, he said he was
little bit nervous during the final as India was facing world champions Korea.
The windy weather also disturbed them on that day.
He further said that
the Indian Railway, ITBP, Indian Army and recently the Jharkhand Police had
offered him jobs, but he rejected all the offers. He fears that if he joins
any job he will be deprived of all the present facilities and that may lower
his performance.
With five international and eight national gold medals
in his kitty Jayanta has already made a mark in the world archery scenario and
all are hoping that this young archer wins an Olympic medal for the
country.
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