Aiming for the Stars

Archery champion Parth Salunkhe's career trajectory seems to be on track

- Shail Desai

Parth Salunkhe had heard a lot about Korean archers. On July 9 this year, at the World Archery Youth Championships in Ireland, he stood alongside one, Song Injun, in the recurve under-21 men's final. "Koreans are high-level athletes, who have earned a reputation through their performance. But I chose not to pay attention to who my opponent was and just maintained my process-oriented thinking," says Salunkhe.