PANAJI
Rising stars of Indian archery - Priya Gurjar, Bishal Changmai, Parneet Kaur and Kushal Dalal - are amongst a host of talented young archers from across the country set to participate in the 42nd NTPC National Junior Archery Championship 2022 to be held from November 3-12 at SAG ground, Campal.
Amateur Archery Association Goa (AAAG) is organising the national championship under the aegis of Archery Association of India (AAI), with support of Sports Authority of Goa. In a press conference at a city hotel on Wednesday, AAAG secretary Chetan Kavlekar announced the details of the national championship, which begins with recurve event on Friday morning.
After two days of recurve action, the compound event will be played on November 7 and 8. The Indian round will take the centre stage on November 10 and 11. A total of 800 archers across 32 teams from all over India, will be seen in action during the prestigious championship.
Organising secretary Kavlekar expressed confidence that the hosts team will put up their best effort. "The team has undergone a training camp at Ponda sports complex. The state archers are practising at the venue (Campal) from Tuesday. We expect a good show in recurve and Indian round," said Kavlekar, while picking out Mallika Varde for a special mention as one to watch out for, labelling her as the next Snehal Divakar.
Dr Joris Paulose, competition director, Kiran Kandolkar, AAAG president, Dr Neelesh Korde, working president, Dr Ajay Yadav, joint organising secretary, Osvaldo da Costa, finance secretary, were also present for the briefing.
