Deepika Kumari, born on 13 June 1994 in Ranchi in what is now Jharkhand, is an Indian recurve archer and the first Indian archer to reach the top of the world rankings, which she did in 2012. Her father drove an auto-rickshaw and her mother was a nurse, and she began by shooting at mangoes with stones before moving to homemade bamboo bows and then the Tata Archery Academy in Jamshedpur. She won the Youth World Championship in 2009 at fifteen and two gold medals at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, has been an Olympian four times, and is a two-time World Championships silver medallist. India honoured her with the Arjuna Award in 2012 and the Padma Shri in 2016.
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