Parneet Kaur is an Indian archer. In 2023, she won the gold medal in the women’s team compound archery competition at the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, China.
Wiki/Biography
Parneet Kaur was born in 2005 in Punjab, India (age 18 in 2023). She belongs to Mansa, Punjab.
appearance
Height (approximately): 5′ 5″
Hair color: black
Eye color: black
family
Parents and siblings
Her father Avtar Singh is a teacher.
Profession
In 2015, she began training in archery. In 2017, she started professional training at Panjab University in Patiala, Punjab, under the guidance of coach Surinder Singh Randhawa.
Parneet Kaur and her coach Surinder Singh Randhawa
In 2019, she won a silver medal in the archery event at the National Interschool Championships. In November 2021, she participated in the women’s individual compound event of the Asian Archery Championships held in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and defeated Vietnamese player Zhou Qiaoying 147-144. She won the women’s individual compound bronze medal at the 2022 Asian Archery Cup in Sharjah, UAE.
Parneet Kaur (far right) after winning the bronze medal at the 2022 Archery Asia Cup
In March 2023, she defeated Iran’s Delgeson Binova Panit Kaur 143-141 at the Asian Cup in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. She competed in the 2023 World Archery Youth Championships in Limerick, Ireland. In the same year, she defeated the Mexican team 235-229 in the final and won the gold medal in the compound women’s team event. She won a bronze medal in the compound women’s team at the 2023 Archery World Cup in Medellín.
Parneet Kaur (third from right) and her team win bronze medal at Archery World Cup 2023
She was part of the Indian women’s compound archery team that won the gold medal at the 2023 Asian Games in Hangzhou, China, beating Chinese Taipei 230-219.
medal
gold
- 2021: World Archery Championships, Yankton, USA (Team)
- 2023: Asian Cup, Taoyuan, Taiwan (Team Competition)
Parneet Kaur (fourth from right) with her team after winning the gold medal at the 2023 Asia Cup in Taoyuan, Taiwan
- 2023: World Youth Archery Championships, Limerick, Ireland (Team)
- 2023: World Archery Championships in Berlin, Germany (team)
Panit Kaur (far left) and her team win gold at the World Archery Championships in Berlin
- 2023: Archery World Cup – Stage 4, Paris (Team)
- 2023: Asian Games, Hangzhou, China (Team)
we are the champion! @19thAG official pic.twitter.com/1ydFuByhQA
— Parneet Kaur (@Parrneettt) October 5, 2023
silver
- 2023: Asian Cup, Taoyuan, Taiwan (individual)
bronze
- 2022: Bronze medal (individual) at the Asian Cup in Sharjah, UAE
- 2022: 36th National Games to be held in Ahmedabad, Gujarat (Team)
Won Bronze Medal in Compound Women’s Team Event at 36th National Games held in Ahmedabad, Gujarat 🥉. @preneet_kaur Mom supports me. And my sponsors, coaches and family.#panitkaur #Ramrodsarchery @IndianOilcl #IndiaArchery #NationalGames2022 #gujurat pic.twitter.com/TgkuTHf9QX
— Parneet Kaur (@Parrneettt) October 6, 2022
- 2023: Archery World Cup – Stage 3 Medellin (Team)
Facts/Trivia
- Panit is interested in English literature.
- In her spare time, she likes to read books. Her favorite book is The Race of My Life: An Autobiography by Milkha Singh, which she has read many times.
- Her father wanted her to be an athlete. Panit had to choose between fencing and archery. In an interview, he said of the matter,
I have always loved sports and wanted my children to try their hand at both sports and studies, so I moved to Patiala. Fencing and archery are my favorite sports, so I took her to the trials and she was fascinated by ‘tirandazi’. ”
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