Brief History

Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata envisaged not only Asia's first fully integrated Steel Plant but also the model township of Jamshedpur. He wrote to his son Dorabji Tata, emphasising the need for creating large spaces for playgrounds, when planning the township of Jamshedpur.

His son, Sir Dorabji Tata provided the impetus and financial support from their personal funds to facilitate the Indian Team's participation in the 1920 Antwerp Olympics. Sir Dorabji Tata then went on to become the first President of the Indian Olympic Association.

Commitment to sports, coupled with mushrooming talent in the Jharkhand where the Steel is plant is located led to creation of Tata Archery Academy in 1996.

Vision

"Sports promotion is about creating a feel good environment. I am not asking anyone to support sports as a social obligation, but as a tool for a sequence of interdependent processes that would trigger social prosperity and dividend to be reaped by all of us."

Objectives

Tata Archery Academy main objective is to help talented youth to realize their full potential and achieve excellence in Archery through sustained scientific training. We are committed to creating value by continually improving Archery Cadet's performance at National and international level.

Administrative Team

Grooming Ground for Overall Excellence

A Four Year Residential Training Programme is offered with wide range of basic and advanced training. Physical and mental strength development is essential ingredients to create winners. Promising cadets are regularly sent overseas for specialised training.

While molding the budding talents, emphasis is placed on technical and tactical training to help them achieve better understanding of the sport and its success strategies. Practical lessons are supplemented with theory classes, to provide them with knowledge of Physiology and Psychology. As a result, cadets understand their abilities and achieve greater success at the highest level of the sport.

Academy details
 

Facilities

Free boarding and lodging
Free full playing kit
Monthly stipend
Paid Annual Leave
Free medical facilities
Sports medicine specialist
Physiotherapist
Fitness monitoring Centre
Injury Rehabilitation Centre
Foreign exposure
Free education
Free In-house & Formal uniform
Recreation facilities
Well equipped gymnasiums
Well equipped Archery Ground with attached Sports Hostel

Achievements

Doha Asian Games 2006 - Jayant Talukdar - Bronze Medal

Our Hopes

Jayant Talukdar

Jayanta joined the Archery in 2000 without having any significant exposure to the sport. On completing his course, he was selected to represent India at the 1st Junior Asian Archery Championship where he won two medals Since then, Jayanta has represented the country at virtually all important international Archery fixtures. Today, he is India's top archer and among the top four in the world. He is a Bronze Medal winner at the Doha Asian Games. He won Arjuna Award Winner in 2007.

RAHUL BANERJEE

Rahul was talent identified by international archery coach, He along with Jayant Talukdar, formed part of formidable trio, which won a silver Medal in the team event at the Junior World Archery Championship held in UK in 2004. He won a Gold Medal in the recently concluded Asian Archery Championship in China in October 2007.

PROTIMA BORO/NISHA RANI DUTTA/V PRANITHA/ROSIE LALREM

The above girls are members of the Junior Indian Team. They have won medals at the Asian grand Prix and also at the Junior & Cadet World Archery Championship at Mexico in Oct'06.

Road Ahead

India got one men's berth and three berths in the Women's section of the Beijing Olympics 2008. Presently our academy cadets are training the Korean Coach in Korea with an aim to win an Olympic Medal for the country.