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Kolkata, Oct 16 (IANS) The Archery Association of India (AAI) Friday named the Indian teams for the coming fifth Asian Grand Prix at Dhaka and the 16th Asian championship at Bali, Indonesia.
The Dhaka event will be held Oct 21-24, and the Indonesia competition Nov 16-21.

The two-day trials held Oct 14-15 at the Sports Authority of India, Eastern Centre saw the surprising failure of the three women Beijing Olympians, Dola Banerjee, Laishram Bombayla Devi and V. Pranitha to make it to the first team for the Asian championship.

The AAI had decided to send the top four to the prestigious Asian meet and the next four to the Asian Grand Prix.

At the end of two days of action, youngsters like Atanu Das and Pawan Xalxo (men’s recurve), Belsari Narsary (women’s recurve), Priyanshu Kachhap and Gagandeep Kaur (both women’s compound) came to the fore with their fine performances.

Former junior men’s compound world champion (2006) Palton Hansda returned to the Indian team after a considerable gap.

The Indian team for Dhaka is expected to leave Oct 20

The Asian GP squad:

Recurve, Men: Pawan Xalxo (Steel Plant Sports Board), Tarundeep Rai (Services), Kapil (Chandigarh) and K. Shiva Shankar (Services).

Women: Dola Banerjee (Railways), L. Bombayla Devi (Railways), Belsari Narsary (Assam) and V. Pranitha (SPSB).

Compound, Men: Chungda Sherpa, Gokul Tamuli, Bijay Rai (all Services) and Amrinder Singh (Punjab).

Women: Asrita Kerketta (Jharkhand), S. Jayalakshmi (Maharashtra), Sumanlata Murmu

and Priyanshu Kachhap (both Jharkhand).

The Asian championship squad:

Recurve, Men: Jayanta Talukdar (SPSB), Mangal Singh Champia (Rly), Rahul Banerjee and Atanu Das (both SPSB).

Women: Chekrovolu Swuro (Nagaland), Reena Kumari (Railways), Laxmirani Majhi and Rimil Buriuly (both SPSB).

Compound, Men: C. Srither (Ser), Isaiah R. Sanam (AP), Kh. Ratan Singh (Ser) and Palton Hansda (Jharkhand).

Women: Jhano Hansdah, Namita Yadav, Manjudha Soy (all Jharkhand) and Gagandeep Kaur (Punjab).