Archer Atanu Das books a ticket to Rio Olympics

Das will be the only Indian representative in the men’s category at the Rio Games, to be held in August. It will be Das’s first Olympics. During the trial, the 24-yearold Kolkata lad edged out the experienced former Olympian duo of Jayanta Talukdar and Mangal Singh Champia to qualify for his maiden Olympic Games. Having made the World Cup stage three semis at the Antalya, Das (653) had a bonus points of 1.5 and he qualified behind Talukdar (659) and Champia (649). The women’s recurve team of Deepika Kumari, L Bombayla Devi and Laxmirani Manjhi has already qualified for the individual as well as team event in Rio.