Dola Banerjee

Personal information
Nationality	Indian
Born	(1980-06-02)2 June 1980 (age 45) Baranagar,North 24 Parganas district,West Bengal, India
Occupation	Sportsperson (Archer)
Medal record Women'srecurve archery Representing India Asian Games 2010 Guangzhou Team Asian Championships 2005 New Delhi Team 2007 Xi'an Team World Cup 2007 Dubai Individual Commonwealth Games 2010 New Delhi Team 2010 New Delhi Individual

Dola Banerjee (Bengali:দোলা ব্যানার্জি; born 2 June 1980) is an Indian sportswoman who competes inarchery.^[1]

Dola Banerjee is daughter of Ashok Banerjee and Kalpana Banerjee. She was born inBaranagar nearKolkata. She studied in Baranagar Rajkumari Memorial Girls High School. At the age of eight, she joined Baranagar Archery Club.^[2] Her first international appearance was in Youth World Championship in San Diego in 1996^[3]

Dola Banerjee started archery at the Baranagar Archery Club in 1990 when she was barely 9 years of age. She represented at 16 at the Youth World Championship, San Diego in 1996. Since then she has been a regular member of the Indian women's archery team. Dola Banerjee represented India at the2004 Summer Olympics. She was placed 13th in the women's individual ranking round with a 72-arrow score of 642. In the first round of elimination, she faced 52nd-rankedKirstin Jean Lewis ofSouth Africa. Dola fell victim to an upset, losing 141–131 in the 18-arrow match, placing 52nd overall in women's individual archery. Dola was also a member of the 8th-place Indian women's archery team.

During her 20 years in international Archery she has represented the country at more than 50 competitions including 2 Olympic Games, 3 Asian Games, 4 World Championship, 4 Asian Championship, 11 World Cups, 3 European Grand Prix, 10 Asian Grand Prix, 2 SAF Games, 1 Commonwealth Games and many others. She has won more than 16 Gold, 3 Silver and 8 Bronze medals for the country.

Dola Banerjee won the second international gold medal of her career when she won the individual recurve title of the fourth leg of the Meteksan World Cup archery at Dover (England) in August 2007. Having won the fourth leg, she qualified for the world cup final held at Dubai in November 2007 where the winners of the four legs competed.^[4]

Dola Banerjee became world champion in archery by winning the gold medal in the women's individual recurve competition at the archery world cup held at Dubai, in November 2007.[1]

Dola Banerjee is the second woman archer to be honored with theArjuna award by theGovernment of India in 2005.^[5]

At the National Level she has won more than 52 gold, 21 silver and eight bronze medals. Her absolute dominance at the Junior National Level during the five years that she played at that level is clear as she won a medal in all categories by winning 19 gold, five silver and six bronze medals. She won 30 medals out of a possibility of 30 medals.

Dola Banerjee was honored by the Indian Government when she was awarded the Arjuna Award in 2005 for her excellent contribution to Archery.

She was a Member in the Sports Development body of the West Bengal Government since July 2011 and playing a key role in development of sports in her state.

Banerjee was also a member of the Steering Committee for Youth Affairs and Sports for the Twelfth Five Year Plan.

She is also actively involved with Baranagar Archery Club, her local club where she started her career, for the development of the sport.

Presently she is employed with the Eastern Railways. She has been also part of the Railways Sports Promotion Board contingent, traveling to the London Olympics 2012 and Rio Olympics 2016.

Dola represented India in the women's individual as well as team events at the2008 Beijing Olympics, but failed to reach the finals in both events. She teamed up withPranitha Vardhineni andBombayala Devi in the team event. They were ranked sixth in the qualifiers. They got a bye in the round of 16, but lost toChina by 206–211 in the quarterfinals. in the individual event, she was ranked 31st, and lost toMarie-Pier Beaudet ofCanada by 8–10 in the tie break, after scoring 108–108 in the full set of arrows.^[6]

InCommonwealth Games 2010 inNew Delhi, she won the gold medal in women's team recurve withDeepika Kumari andL Bombayala Devi^[7]

She also won a bronze medal in the recurve individual event.

• Arjuna Award on the year of 2005.
• 1st woman who have qualified for Olympic in the individual event on 2004 Athens Olympic.
• Won individual gold on 2007 World Cup and as well as World Cup final on the same year.
• Won gold in the 2010 Commonwealth games.
• Team bronze in the Asian Games in 2010.

Dola Banerjee is married to a corporate professional, Medhadeep Banerjee, and is a mother of a son, Diyan. Her younger brotherRahul Banerjee is also an Olympian and Arjuna Awardee archer. She is a cousin of the singersShaan andSagarika.^[5]

• Archery at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
• Indian Squad for 2008 Olympics

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• 1980 births
• Living people
• Indian female archers
• Archers from Kolkata
• Sportspeople from Kolkata
• People from Baranagar
• Archers at the 2002 Asian Games
• Archers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
• Archers at the 2006 Asian Games
• Archers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
• Archers at the 2010 Asian Games
• Archers at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
• Asian Games bronze medalists for India
• Asian Games bronze medalists in archery
• Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for India
• Commonwealth Games gold medallists for India
• Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games
• Olympic archers for India
• Recipients of the Arjuna Award
• Indian sports executives and administrators
• Medallists at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
• Commonwealth Games gold medallists in archery
• Commonwealth Games bronze medallists in archery
• Sportspeople from North 24 Parganas district
• 21st-century Indian sportswomen

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