Archery

Former world number one in recurve archery.

Abhishek Verma (born 26 June 1989) is an Indian compound archer. He has won multiple medals at the Asian Games, World Cup and Asian Championships, including a silver in the mixed team event at the 2021 World Championships. He became the first Indian archer to score a perfect 600 in an international competition, achieving the feat at the 2024 GT Open.

Aditi Swami (born 15 June 2006) is an Indian compound archer. She won the gold medal in the women's individual compound event at the 2023 World Championships, becoming the first Indian female archer to achieve this feat.

Aman Saini (born 15 July 1997) is an Indian compound archer.

Ankita Bhakat (born 17 June 1998) is an Indian recurve archer. Bhakat competed at the 2024 Paris Olympics, where she finished fourth in the recurve mixed team event after losing the bronze medal match.

Atanu Das (born 5 April 1992) is an Indian archer. He represents India in the recurve men's individual and team events.

Bhajan Kaur (born 26 August 2005) is an Indian archer from Haryana. She was selected for the Indian Archery team for the recurve events at the 2022 Asian Games held in Hangzhou, China. Along with Ankita Bhakat and Simranjeet Kaur, she won the Women's team recurve event bronze medal for India.

Bombayla Devi Laishram (born 22 February 1985) is an Indian former archer. A member of the national recurve team representing India at the international events for a decade-and-a-half starting 2007, she has won a silver medal at the World Archery Championships, and four gold, five silver, and four bronze medals at various editions of the Archery World Cup. Laishram peaked at no.

Chekrovolü Swüro (born 21 November 1982) is an Indian archer from Nagaland. She represented India in archery in the 2002 Asian Games and 2006 Asian Games held at Busan, South Korea, and Doha, Qatar, respectively. She was a member of the silver medal-winning team in the 2011 World Archery Championships, held at Turin, Italy.

Cherukuri Lenin (1985 or 1986 – 24 October 2010) was an Indian archer and coach. He was the son of Cherukuri Satyanarayana. In 2005, he won a silver medal at the Asian Grand Prix in Malaysia.

Dhiraj Bommadevara (born 4 September 2001) is an Indian recurve archer. Dhiraj competed at the 2024 Olympics, where he narrowly missed the podium, finishing fourth in the recurve mixed team event.

Divya Dhayal is an Indian archer. She became the national archery champion at age 15.

Dola Banerjee (born 2 June 1980) is an Indian sportswoman who competes in archery.

Gagandeep Kaur (born 1988) is an Indian archer. She is the first archer from Punjab to win a medal in the Archery women's compound team with Jhano Hansdah and Bhagyabati Chanu, defeating Malaysia. For her unexpected performance, she was even awarded with Rs 2 lakh cash award from Punjab University in Patiala.

Harvinder Singh (born 25 February 1991) is an Indian paralympic archer. He is a double Paralympic medalist having won the gold at 2024 Paris and the bronze at 2020 Tokyo in the men's singles recurve archery event. His medals were the first Paralympic gold and bronze archery medals for India.

Jayanta Talukdar (born 2 March 1986 in Guwahati) is an Indian archer from Assam. He has won individual gold Medal in the 2006 Archery World Cup.

Jhano Hansdah (born 24 October 1975) is an Indian female compound archer and part of the national team. She competed at the 2013 World Archery Championships.

Jyothi Surekha Vennam (born 3 July 1996) is an Indian archer. She competes in the compound discipline, a non-Olympic event debuting at the 2028 LA Olympics. She has won gold medals at the World Championships, World Cup, Asian Games and the Asian Championships.

Komalika Bari (born 5 February 2002 in Jamshedpur) is only the third Indian player to win the world title at the Tata Archery Academy's Cadet World Youth Archery Championships. She made her mark to ensure her place in the Indian team for elite events including the World Championships and the Olympic Test Event. She participated in world u-18 championship held in Wroclaw in August.

Krishna Das (Bengali: কৃষ্ণা দাস; born 23 May 1959 in Calcutta) is a former Indian archer. Das represented India in the Asian Games in 1978 in Bangkok and 1982 in Delhi, and in three Asian Archery meets. She was the first archer to receive the Indian Government's Arjuna Award to recognise outstanding sportspersons in 1984.

Laxmirani Majhi (born 26 January 1989) is an Indian female right handed recurve archer.

Limba Ram is an Indian archer who represented India in international competitions, including three Olympics. He equalled an archery world record in 1992 at the Asian Archery Championships in Beijing. He was awarded the Padma Shri Award in 2012.

Madhumita Kumari is an Indian archer. She won the Silver Medal Asian Games 2018 in the Women's compound archery team event.

Majhi Sawaiyan (born 23 December 1981) is an athlete from India. He competes in archery. Sawaiyan competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in men's individual archery.

Mangal Singh Champia (born 9 November 1983) is an Indian archer, who won multiple medals in several international events, including the 2006 Asian Games. He was conferred with the Arjuna award by the President of India for the year 2009. Mangal started archery in the year 1995 and became pro in 2008.

Muskan Kirar (born 2001) is an Indian archer. She won the gold medal in the women's compound final event at the Archery Asia Cup, stage-1 competition in Bangkok on 7 March 2018. She beat Malaysian archer Sazatul Nadhirah Zakaria by 139-136.

Ojas Pravin Deotale (born 18 June 2002) is an Indian compound archer. He won the gold medal in the men's individual compound event at the 2023 World Championships, becoming the first Indian male archer to achieve this feat.

Parth Sushant Salunkhe (born 4 November 2003) is an Indian recurve archer. He's a silver medalist at the Asian Championships as well as a 4-time gold, 5-time silver, 2-time bronze medalist at the Asian Cup. He's also a 3-time gold medalist and 1-time bronze medalist at the World Youth Championships.

Payal Nag (born 2008) is an Indian para archer from Odisha. She is a quadruple amputee.

Pooja Jatyan (born 1998) is a para archer from Haryana. She is the first para athlete from India to take part in an Olympic Archery event at the Rio Paralympics 2016. She took part in the recurve women's open competition and qualified for the Rio event at the final world qualifier in the Czech Republic in 2016.

Pooja Khanna is India's first ever Paralympic Archery player. She debuted at the 2016 Rio Paralympics at the age of 25 and was the only archer from India among all 19 athletes sent to the Games. She secured a fifth-place in the final Paralympic Qualifier which secured India's spot in the 2016 Olympics under World Quota Recurve Women Open in the Czech Republic 2016.

Pranitha Vardhineni is an Indian Recurve Archer.

Pravin Ramesh Jadhav (born 6 July 1996) is an Indian archer who competes in the recurve discipline. At the 2019 World Archery Championships, he was a member of the first Indian team to qualify for the final since 2005; the team received the silver medal. He made his Olympic debut in Tokyo at the 2020 Summer Olympics and represented India again at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.

Purnima Mahato is an Indian archer and archery coach from Jamshedpur, India. She has won the Indian national archery championships. She was a coach for the Indian national team at the 2008 Summer Olympics and was selected to coach the team at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Purvasha Sudhir Shende is an Indian Archer. She won the Bronze Medal Asian Games 2014 in Incheon in the Women's team compound event along with Surekha Jyothi and Trisha Deb. She is a young budding archer the country has produced.

Rahul Banerjee (Bengali: রাহুল বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়; born 15 December 1986) is an Indian Olympian and Arjuna Awardee archer.

Raj Kaur is an Indian professional archer. She won the bronze medal in the women's compound division at the 2019 World Archery Championships held from 10 June to 16 June 2019 at 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands. The Indian women's compound team of Muskan Kirar, Jyothi Surekha Vennam, and Raj Kaur defeated Turkey 229-226.

Rajat Chauhan (born 30 December 1994) is an Indian archer. Chauhan won a silver medal in the World Archery Championships in Copenhagen, becoming the first Indian to win an individual medal in compound archery at the World Championships. He won the Gold Medal in the Asian Games 2014 in Incheon in the men's compound archery team event along with Abhishek Verma and Sandeep Kumar.

Rakesh Kumar (born 13 January 1985) is an Indian compound para-archer. He won a bronze medal in the mixed team compound event at the 2024 Paris Paralympics. Kumar has also won gold medals at the 2022 Asian Para Games and the 2023 World Championships in the same event.

Reena Kumari (born 15 January 1984) is an athlete from India who competes in archery. Kumari represented India at the 2004 Summer Olympics. She placed 43rd in the women's individual ranking round with a 72-arrow score of 620.

Rimil Buriuly (born 9 January 1991) is an Indian archer. Rimil was part of bronze winning team in Women's Recurve event at the 2010 Asian Games held in Guangzhou, China between 12 and 27 November 2010. Rimil is employed in Indian Railways in Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh.

Rishabh Yadav (born 13 August 2002) is an Indian compound archer. He has won medals at the World Championships, World Cup the Asian Championships. In 2025, he partnered with Jyothi Surekha to set the mixed team world record with a score of 1431 at the World Cup.

Sanand Salil Mitra (born 5 May 1983) is an Indian national compound archer. He was twice awarded a national gold medal in the sport.

Sandeep Kumar is an Indian Archer. He won the gold medal at the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea in the men's compound archery team event along with Abhishek Verma and Rajat Chauhan. He had been honoured with the Arjuna award in the year 2015.

Sanjeev Singh (born 18 November 1965) is an Indian archer. He competed in the men's individual and team events at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Sarita Adhana (born 1 January 1987) is an Indian paralympic archer. She qualified to represent India at the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris in the women's Individual compound event of Archery competitions. She lost in the quarterfinals at Paris Paralympics.

Satyadev Prasad (born 19 September 1979) is an athlete from India. He competes in archery. Prasad competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in men's individual archery.

Sheetal Devi (born 10 January 2007) is an Indian compound para-archer. She won a bronze medal in the mixed team compound event at the 2024 Paris Paralympics, becoming the youngest Indian Paralympian medalist. She has won gold medals at all the major competitions including the World Championships, Asian Championships and the Asian Para Games.

On 8 September 2026 the Maharashtra Cabinet approved a revised policy for the 5 per cent parallel reservation for meritorious sportspersons in direct recruitment in state government and semi-government bodies. Sports included in at least three consecutive Summer Olympic Games after 2005 qualify, and Kabaddi, Kho-Kho, Chess, Mallakhamb and Cricket have been added as regional sports. Under the revised policy, sports certificates must be verified through a digital Sports E-Certificate system within three months, and earlier government resolutions on the quota were rescinded.

Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC), a Government of India enterprise, gives monthly scholarships to economically weaker young sportspersons who have the potential to excel in sport, in games including badminton, boxing, wrestling, kabaddi, chess, athletics and para sports. This is a public-sector company scheme, not a government department scheme. A scholarship is awarded for one year and can be extended up to two years based on annual performance. The number of scholarships is fixed game by game; for the 2025-26 round, for example, badminton had 6 (3 for men and 3 for women) and kabaddi had 20.

NHPC Limited, a Government of India enterprise, offers a sports scholarship to promising young players aged 14 to 19 years (14 to 24 years for para sports) in 16 games, to encourage their talent and build a talent pool during their formative years of education. This is a public-sector company scheme, not a government department scheme. Up to 32 scholarships are provided, two in each game, in two categories, Elite Scholar and Scholar, for a period of three years.

Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL), a Government of India enterprise, offers 100 para-sports scholarships (50 for men, 50 for women) in two categories, Para Scholar and Elite Para Scholar, across 16 para games including badminton. This is a public-sector company scheme, not a government department scheme. A scholarship runs for a maximum of three years, with a performance review after each year.

A flagship annual multi-disciplinary grassroots event held to identify and nurture young sporting talent at the school and college level across India.

Under instructions of the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT), central government ministries and departments can directly recruit meritorious sportspersons to Group C posts (including erstwhile Group D) that are filled by direct recruitment, in relaxation of the normal recruitment procedure. The list of qualifying sports has 65 disciplines (63 listed in 2020, with Tennis Ball Cricket added in January 2021 and Yogasana in June 2022). Kudo, Karate, Taekwondo, Golf, Judo, Boxing, Wrestling, Badminton, Cricket and Tennis are among them. Railways and a few scientific and atomic-energy services follow separate rules.

NTPC Limited committed ₹115 crore over five years from its CSR budget for the development of archery in India, under an agreement signed with the National Sports Development Fund and the Sports Ministry. Of this, ₹15 crore was a one-time spend on field targets, training centres and equipment such as bows and arrows, and ₹100 crore (about ₹20 crore a year) was for recurring costs: grassroots development, training of identified and elite talent, coach development, equipment, a sports science lab, scholarships and prize money for high performers, and foreign training and exposure for sub-junior and junior archers. Under this CSR scheme the Archery Association of India invites Expressions of Interest from schools and academies across India for accreditation; selected schools and academies receive financial support for five years. In July 2025 Chhattisgarh's Chief Minister said that NTPC would invest ₹20 crore in two archery academies in Jashpur and Raipur. This is NTPC's CSR funding, not a government department scheme.

A talent identification program targeting school children in rural districts for specialized training.