Dola Banerjee started archery at the Baranagar Archery Club in 1990 when she was barely 9 years of age. She represented India at the tender age of 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.
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Rahul Banerjee started archery at the age of thirteen. His first international appearance was in Youth World Championship in 2004; he won a team silver medal, which was the first world level medal for Indian archers. Rahul Banerjee is 28 years old with over 10 years of International career in representing the country in the game of Archery.
Know MoreThe sister and brother duo of Dola and Rahul Banerjee has founded the Dola and Rahul Banerjee Sports Foundation with the sole intention of promoting Sports and Archery in particular. Both Dola and Rahul Banerjee has earned various achievements and recognition from Archery and they want to give it back to the society by promoting Archery and through Archery encouraging the youth of the state to indulge in positive activity and also ensuring a good future for them.
We have also formed a formidable Team of Experts in the field of Archery. It includes qualified Professional Coaches and other support staffs like Sports Medicine Doctors, Physiotherapist, Sports Analyst and Masseuses.
The Foundation is acting as consultants for the West Bengal State Government and they have come up with a state of the art Bengal Archery Academy Jhargram district in West Bengal.
We are running an academy with Kolkata Police at Ultadanga.
We are currently running our own training centre at Rabindra Sarovar, Kolkata.
We have successfully organized an Indoor Archery event, named "INDIA OPEN INDOOR ARCHERY" at Netaji Indoor Stadium, Kolkata on 27-28 October 2018. This was the 1st ever Indoor Archery event organized in India. Over 450 participants from all over the country, including International archers like Deepika Kumari, Atanu Das, Tarundeep Rai, Trisha Deb, Abhishek Verma, Komalika Bari, and Mangal Singh Champia, were featured in that event.
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