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Archery At The 2010 Commonwealth Games
The archery competition at the 2010 Commonwealth Games was held at the Yamuna Sports Complex between 4 and 10 October. This was the second games appearance of the optional Commonwealth Games sport, almost thirty years after its debut at the 1982 Commonwealth Games. Twenty-three nations entered archers into the tournament. Medal table Events Archery at the Commonwealth Games is target archery, where competitors shoot arrows at outdoor targets at marked distances. Eight events are included: four each for women and men, with separate events for Recurve bow#Recurve bow, recurve and Compound bow, compound bows. The events are: Men Women Venues *Yamuna Sports Complex Participating nations * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * See also * 2010 Commonwealth Games References External links Schedule {{DEFAULTSORT:Archery At The 2010 Commonwealth Games Archery at the 2010 Commonwealth Games, Events at the 2010 Commonwealth Games 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archery
Archery is the sport, practice, or skill of using a Bow and arrow, bow to shooting, shoot arrows.Paterson ''Encyclopaedia of Archery'' p. 17 The word comes from the Latin ''arcus'', meaning bow. Historically, archery has been used for hunting and combat. In modern times, it is mainly a competitive sport and recreational activity. A person who practices archery is typically called an archer, bowman, or toxophilite. History Origins and ancient archery The oldest known evidence of arrows (not found with surviving bows) comes from South Africa, South African sites such as Sibudu Cave, where the remains of bone and stone arrowheads have been found dating approximately 72,000 to 60,000 years ago.Backwell L, d'Errico F, Wadley L.(2008). Middle Stone Age bone tools from the Howiesons Poort layers, Sibudu Cave, South Africa. Journal of Archaeological Science, 35:1566–1580. Backwell L, Bradfield J, Carlson KJ, Jashashvili T, Wadley L, d'Errico F.(2018). The antiquity of bow-and-arro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tarundeep Rai
Tarundeep Rai (born 22 February 1984) is an Indian archer from Sikkim. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 2021 by the Government of India for his contribution to sports. He is a three time Olympian. Early life Rai was born in Namchi, Sikkim, India. He is supported by a sports NGO, Olympic Gold Quest. Career Rai made his international debut in 2003 at the age of 19 years at the Asian Archery Championship 2003 held at Yangon, Myanmar. He won India's maiden individual silver medal at the 16th Asian Games on 24 November 2010 in Guangzhou, China. Earlier, he was also a member of the Indian team that won a bronze medal at the 15th Asian Games in Doha in 2006. He became an Olympian taking part in the 2004 Summer Olympics, where he was placed 32nd in the men's individual ranking round with a 72-arrow score of 647. He faced Alexandros Karageorgiou of Greece in the first elimination round and lost 147-143. His final rank was 43. He was also a member of the Indian men's archery ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alison Williamson
Alison Jane Williamson Order of the British Empire, MBE (born 3 November 1971) is a retired British archery, archer who represented Great Britain at the Summer Olympics, Great Britain at six consecutive Olympic Games from 1992 to 2012. She won a bronze medal in the women's individual event at the 2004 Summer Olympics, becoming the first British woman to win an Olympic archery medal in ninety-six years. Williamson achieved two medals at the World Archery Championships and represented England at the Commonwealth Games, England at the 2010 Commonwealth Games, winning two silver medals. Williamson was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 2012 Birthday Honours, 2012. She announced her retirement from archery in 2014. Early and personal life Alison Williamson was born on 3 November 1971 in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire. She was introduced to archery at the age of seven by her parents, who both practised the sport recreationally. As of 2012, both her parents r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deepika Kumari
Deepika Kumari (born 13 June 1994) is an Indian professional archer who competes in the recurve category. A four-time Olympian and two-time World Archery Championships silver medallist, Deepika is one of the most decorated Indian archer and the first Indian archer to rise to the top of the world rankings, reaching the World No. 1 ranking in 2012. Known for her precision and consistency, Deepika has won numerous medals at international tournaments, including World Cup, Commonwealth Games, Asian Games and Asian Championships. She has been honored with several national awards, including the Arjuna Award in 2012 and the Padma Shri in 2016, for her contribution to Indian sports. Early life Deepika Kumari was born in Ranchi, Bihar (now Jharkhand) to Shiv Charan Prajapati, an auto-rickshaw driver, and Geeta, a nurse at Ranchi Medical College, and a native of Ratu Chatti village, 15 km from Ranchi. She belongs to a Prajapati family. As a child, she practised aiming for mangoe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
XIX Commonwealth Games-2010 Delhi Winners Of (Women`s) Archery Individual Compound, Hunt Nicky Of England (Gold), DM Jones Of Canada (Silver) And C
19 (nineteen) is the natural number following 18 and preceding 20. It is a prime number. Mathematics Nineteen is the eighth prime number. Number theory 19 forms a twin prime with 17, a cousin prime with 23, and a sexy prime with 13. 19 is the fifth central trinomial coefficient, and the maximum number of fourth powers needed to sum up to any natural number (see, Waring's problem). It is the number of compositions of 8 into distinct parts. 19 is the eighth strictly non-palindromic number in any base, following 11 and preceding 47. 19 is also the second octahedral number, after 6, and the sixth Heegner number. In the Engel expansion of pi, 19 is the seventh term following and preceding . The sum of the first terms preceding 17 is in equivalence with 19, where its prime index (8) are the two previous members in the sequence. Prime properties 19 is the seventh Mersenne prime exponent. It is the second Keith number, and more specifically the first Keith prime ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kobus De Wet
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Nico Benade
Christa Päffgen (; 16 October 1938 – 18 July 1988), known by her stage name Nico, was a German singer, songwriter, actress, and model. Nico had roles in several films, including Federico Fellini's ''La Dolce Vita'' (1960) and Andy Warhol's ''Chelsea Girls'' (1966). At the insistence of Warhol, she sang lead on three songs of the Velvet Underground's debut album ''The Velvet Underground & Nico'' (1967). At the same time, she started a solo career and released '' Chelsea Girl'' (1967). Her friend Jim Morrison suggested that she start writing her own material. She then composed songs on a harmonium, not traditionally a rock instrument. John Cale of the Velvet Underground became her musical arranger and produced ''The Marble Index'' (1968), ''Desertshore'' (1970), '' The End...'' (1974) and other subsequent albums. In the 1980s, Nico toured extensively in Europe, United States, Australia and Japan. After a concert in Berlin in June 1988, she went on holiday in Ibiza, where she di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chinna Raju Srither (born 1955), Jamaican guitarist
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Jignas Chittibomma
Jignas Chittibomma (born 12 January 1994) is an Indian archer. He is noted for being instrumental in India's 2nd-place finish in the 2010 Commonwealth Games. Early life Chittibomma had a superlative performance at the schooling age of 14, while studying class IX, in Second South Asian Archery championship held in Jamshedpur. This was as a member of the Volga Archery academy under international coach Lenin, which won the Silver medal from E. S. L. Narasimhan, Governor of Andhra Pradesh and K. Roshaiah, Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh. 2010 Commonwealth Games He is noted as the youngest archer in India's team and being instrumental in winning team silver medal in Commonwealth Games of 2010 that was held at New Delhi in India by defeating South Africa with 226–224 in semifinal and settled for silver medal by losing to England in final with 229-231 points. Jignas was instrumental in entering final by scoring 78 points out of 80. (8 Arrows) in semi final and scored a record ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liam Grimwood
Liam Grimwood is an English archer who won a gold medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi Delhi, officially the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi, is a city and a union territory of India containing New Delhi, the capital of India. Straddling the Yamuna river, but spread chiefly to the west, or beyond its Bank (geography .... Liverpool Echo, 8 October 2010 References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
