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Jayanta Talukdar (born 2 March 1986 inGuwahati) is an Indianarcher from Assam. He has won individual gold Medal in the2006 Archery World Cup.
Talukdar was part of the Indian team that won the silver medal at the 2004 Junior World Championships. He followed up with a gold medal at theFITA Meteksan World Cup in 2006, becoming the first Indian archer (bhartiya tirandaj)[clarification needed] to win gold at the event.[1] In 2006 he also won a gold medal at theSouth Asian Games and a bronze medal in the team competition at the2006 Asian Games.
Despite losses in 2009, theTata Steel sponsored Talukdar was seeded Number 1 for the 2009 World Cup in Copenhagen.[2]
On 21 June 2012, Jayanta Talukdar made it to the Indian men's recurve archers team forLondon Olympics 2012, he competed in both the men's individual and the men's team events.[3][4] He lost toJacob Wukie in the first round of the individual event, and India lost to Japan in the first round of the team event.[5][6]
In November, 2015, he won Bronze medal in the2015 Asian Archery Championships withDeepika Kumari in the Recurve Mixed Team event.[7]
He is most probably in for the Tokyo 2021 Olympic Games.[8]
Jayanta was awarded theArjuna Award in archery in August, 2007.[1]
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