Women's Archery team for Olympics named


A three-member Indian women's archery team comprising Deepika Kumari, Bombayla Devi and Laxmirani Majhi was on Monday named for the Rio Olympics after a series of selection trials in the last three months. They will compete in the individual events as well as team event at the Rio Games which will be held in the month of August.

 

The Archery Association of India said in a press release that after the rigorous six stages of selection trials and training over three-and-a-half months starting in January in Jamshedpur, then at Delhi and finally in Bengaluru, they were able to select the three-member women's team for the Rio Olympic Games