Rajat Chauhan

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Rajat Chauhan
File:Arjuna Award for the year-2016 to Shri Rajat Chauhan for Archery, in New Delhi on August 29, 2016 (cropped).jpg
Personal information
Born (1994-12-30) 30 December 1994 (age 31)
Rajasthan, India
Sport
CountryFile:Flag of India.svg India
SportArchery
Medal record

Rajat Chauhan (born 30 December 1994[1]) is an Indian archer. Chauhan won a silver medal in the World Archery Championships in Copenhagen, becoming the first Indian to win an individual medal in compound archery at the World Championships.[2] He won the Gold Medal in the Asian Games 2014 in Incheon in the men's compound archery team event along with Abhishek Verma and Sandeep Kumar. In 2014 he also became the first Indian compound archer to qualify for the Archery World Cup final, and in 2015 reached the final of the 2015 World Archery Championships. [3][4]

Other Achievements

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1st place, gold medalist(s) 2015 Asian Archery Championships: Men's Individual[5]

1st place, gold medalist(s) 2015 Asian Archery Championships: Men's Team[5]

Awards

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File:The President, Shri Pranab Mukherjee presenting the Arjuna Award for the year-2016 to Shri Rajat Chauhan for Archery, in a glittering ceremony, at Rashtrapati Bhavan, in New Delhi on August 29, 2016.jpg
The President, Shri Pranab Mukherjee presenting the Arjuna Award for the year-2016 to Rajat Chauhan for Archery, in a glittering ceremony, at Rashtrapati Bhavan, in New Delhi on 29 August 2016

References

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