At the World Youth Archery championship, Komalika Bari, Jharkhand archer makes headway to shoot in Wroclaw, Poland from August 9 to 15. Komalika Bari, age 19, a student of Tata Archery Academy, has procured a berth in India’s junior women’s recurve squad for the Poland event. Komalika is in lead form after occupying team gold with comrade archers Deepika Kumari and Ankita Bhakat at the latest world cup stage3 conducted in Paris.
At the beginning of this year, being the key player of the women’s recurve squad, the bespectacled Komalika had also shown love towards her victory by kissing a gold at the World Cup Stage 1 held in Guatemala. She was also elected in the Indian Squad after the recently conducted selection trials at Sonepat, Haryana. Currently, the teen archer is preparing with the Poland-bound National Squad in Sonepat.
Commending from Jamshedpur’s Birsanagpur, she gains respect after winning a gold medal at the World Youth Archery and Cadet Championships organized in Madrid, Spain in 2019. Although she is talented she had to face many difficulties to gain fame. She had buckled down to be regarded as one of the top women archers in the country. Dharmendra Tiwary, a counselor at Tata’s archery cradle, considers that his student is expected to clinch the top slot in Poland. He further added, “She (Komolika) is currently in top form and the rhythm should continue. She is also high in confidence, especially after the stupendous show in Paris,” the Dronacharya awardee who has worked with top archers, including Deepika and Ankita, added. He believes that the archer is a great talent to make splendid progress. The veteran coach about the Junior archer and a regular in the national senior recurve side said, “I am very confident that Komolika will win more laurels for the country and Jharkhand.”
In spite of not being able to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics, she is eligible to be part of the world’s biggest sporting event, mentioned her coach. Tiwary added, “Age is on Komolika’s side and she has a long way to go. I’m very optimistic about her future.” It is notable that Komolika belongs to a typical Indian middle-class family. Her father, Ghanshyam Bari, working as a LIC agent and her mother is a housewife. She was also a trainee at a cradle run by Indian Steel & Wire Product near Telco township in Jamshedpur. She acquired the Tata Cradle in 2016.
