Twenty-four member archery team will represent Uttarakhand in the National Archery Championship slated in New Delhi from October 11 to 16. The Uttarakhand state archery team will participate in senior Indian round women archery competition, men senior Indian round and men’s compound and Ricub archery competition in the National Archery Championship.
The National Archery Championship will be held in Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium from 11 October. Uttarakhand State Archery Association general secretary Jaspal Singh Negi told The Pioneer that twenty four member squad will participate in the National Archery Championship, which includes 16 archery teams and eight officials.
Negi said that in compound team event of senior men category, Arvind Singh, Bipin Singh, Umesh Singh and Mohan Bhardwaj will represent Utttarakhand in Ricub team championship and Behaskar Singh, Narendra Singh and Davendra Singh Bisht will represent the state in senior men category while
K Arangam and KK Seema will be the coach and the team manager respectively in both the round and Ricub events. In Indian round women championship, Shashi, laxmi, Bharti and Sonal will represent Uttarakhand.
Usha will associate the team as coach and Anjana Negi as manager, while in Indian round men championship, Jaspal Singh, Preetam Rana, Mahendra Singh and Deepak Singh will represent Uttarakhand and Ramesh will associate the team as team coach and Rajendra Singh Tomar, vice-chairman Uttarakhand Archery Association, as a team manager. Negi further said that the names of the Uttarakhand archery team have been sent to the National Archery Association in advance.
The archery is being propagated in all the districts of the state and in the past few years, there is a great craze among the youths, including the women, in this particular sport and many district archery associations have organised competitions in the past. The team, participating in the National Archery Championship, is from both Garhwal and Kumaon regions of the Uttarakhand, Negi added.