Tarundeep Rai Height, Age, Wife, Family, Biography & More 2024

Some Lesser Known Facts About Tarundeep Rai

• Tarundeep Rai is an Indian Archer since 2003 and probably the most well-known sportspersons hailing from the Northeastern area.

• He was born in a sports-oriented family. His father was an expert photographer. He is the cousin of Baichung Bhutia, a well known face in Indian soccer.

• He has represented India in two Olympic games- Athens 2004, the place the crew completed at eleventh place, and London 2012, the place his crew completed at twelfth place. The solely recreation that he had missed was Beijing 2008 attributable to a nagging shoulder damage.

• He made his worldwide debut on the age of 19 within the Asian Archery Championship 2003. Since then, he has been persistently performing and bringing medals for India.

• He received his maiden Gold medal on the Asian Grand Prix Bangkok in 2004. Later on, he received the bronze within the males’s recurve crew occasion on the Asian Archery Championship within the following 12 months.

• In 2005, Rai received the silver medal in recurve males crew occasion on the World Archery Championship, the place he misplaced to Won Jong Choi by 106-112 within the semis. He additionally received a bronze medal at recurve particular person occasion on the Asian Archery Grand Prix in Jakarta.

• At the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, India got here to the limelight in Archery when Tarundeep Rai bagged the Bronze medal within the males’s recurve crew occasion together with Viswash, Jayanta Talukdar, and Mangal Singh.

• But it was not all that good in Tarundeep’s life when he suffered from accidents that made him shoot with the mistaken hand. He remembers that occasion by saying,
  

  Those few years once I needed to grapple with the shoulder damage taught me every little thing in life. I even tried taking pictures left-handed but it surely didn’t assist. I used to be taking painkillers however in useless. The 12 months 2008 and virtually half of 2009 have been forgettable.”

• Injury at such a younger age of 24 was an enormous setback for him. But he didn’t quit when throughout the second half of 2009, he received the Asian Grand Prix at Tehran.
  

• The following 12 months noticed essentially the most fruitful 12 months in his life when he received 4 medals on the prestigious world occasions. Not solely this, however he additionally received males recurve crew gold at 2nd Asian Grand Prix in Bangkok in March 2009, then silver medal in the identical occasion on the Archery World Cup at Porec, Croatia.

• He grew to become the first-ever Indian Archer to bag a silver medal on the sixteenth Asian Games in November 2010 at Yangon, Myanmar.

• As time glided by, he confirmed no indicators of slowing down. He was dominant at worldwide tournaments over the previous decade. His silver medal on the 2019 World Championship in s-Hertogenbosch and bronze medal on the 2019 Asian Archery championship in Bangkok itself denotes that the veteran has loads to supply within the coming future.

• He grabbed the quota for the Tokyo Olympics 2020 to be held in 2021. As the COVID pandemic hit the whole nation, he was additionally underneath lockdown. Meanwhile, he selected to stay in Pune’s Army Sports Institute with an aspiring Archer Pravin Jadhav and get himself educated for the final Olympics of his profession.
  

• He additionally serves in an Indian Army on the rank of Subedar.