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Take a bow! Compound archers soar
The Morning Standard
|October 06, 2023
A world-record holder. World champions. Now, Asian Games champions. India's compound archers have been hitting 10s for months now. Their purple patch is such that they will find it harder to miss than to hit the inner 10. 2023 could well go down as the year when the country's super compound archers won the entire lot.
However, it wasn't that long ago when India didn't have much of an idea about the format. To the officials, compound may well have been chemistry and not part of archery.
Enter India's now high performance director, Sanjeeva Singh. The year's 2004 and post a trip to the Worlds in New York, he has come back with a single compound bow. "People laughed at me," he said. "They said... 'India has never won recurve, why should we get this?"
This story is from the October 06, 2023 edition of The Morning Standard.
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