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Ball badminton is a sport native to India. It is a racket sport game, played with a yellow ball made of wool, on a court of fixed dimensions (12 by 24 metres) divided by a net. The game was played as early as 1856 by the royal family in Tanjore, the capital of Thanjavur district in Tamil Nadu, India.
Thoda (archery) Thoda is an Indian form of archery found in Himachal Pradesh, with elements of dance and music included. [1] It is generally performed during various local festivals alongside other traditional games, [2] and may be a symbolic representation of the war described in the Mahabharata. [3] [4] The aim of Thoda is for two opposing ...
In Commonwealth Games 2010 in New Delhi, she won gold medal in women's team recurve with Deepika Kumari. Rajat Chauhan is the first Indian archer to win a silver medal in men's individual compound event in World Archery Championships. He achieved this feat at 2015 World Archery Championships.
Representing India. Purnima Mahato is an Indian archer and archery coach from Jamshedpur, India. [1] 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. She was awarded Dronacharya award from President of ...
Archery is the sport, practice, or skill of using a bow to shoot arrows. [1] The word comes from the Latin arcus, meaning bow. [2] Historically, archery has been used for hunting and combat. In modern times, it is mainly a competitive sport and recreational activity.
A variety of ball games and war-training activities were present in ancient India, [7][8][9] with both men and women participating. [5] The traditional Indian physical culture generally used little to no equipment. [10] Ayurvedic medical treatises such as the Charaka Samhita and the Sushruta Samhita emphasized exercise as a way of avoiding ...
Mukkha is an archery sport. The game is played with a long arrow (ghashay) and a long bow (leenda). The arrow has a saucer shaped metallic plate (tubray) at its distal end. The archers play in teams and attempt to hit a small white wooden target called takai surrounded by a circular ring called kwaara. The target is secured in fresh clay placed ...
Deepika Kumari (born 13 June 1994) is an Indian professional archer. She won a gold medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in the women's individual recurve event. She also won a gold there in the women's team recurve event with Dola Banerjee and Bombayala Devi. [3] She won individual gold in two of the three stages of the World Cup—one in ...