It's really a great news. Thanks for the information.
Mridul
>From: "Anjan K. Nath" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "Mahesh Baishya" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[email protected]>
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>Subject: Re: [Assam] Great News
>Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2005 09:45:01 +0800
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>The article does not say how old the "young archer" is and whether TATA is looking after his sporting interests.
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>Is there anything we can do to further encourage this rising "Star"?
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>Anjan
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> Guwahati, Friday, July 8, 2005
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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 bull's 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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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