KUMARI India’s sportsperson of 2013

The Commonwealth Games gold medallist, who has over 200,000 followers on Facebook, picked up her first podium of the year in Shanghai before two last-8 finishes in Medellin and Wroclaw.

That won her a ticket to Paris, and her fourth Archery World Cup Final in a row. And for the third time since 2011, Deepika KUMARI made it to the gold medal match – where she narrowly missed out (skip to 1:28:00) to Korea’s YUN Ok Hee.

At the age of just 19, KUMARI’s titles include Commonwealth Games Champion, world cadet and junior crowns and five World Cup stage podiums – including Antalya gold in 2012 – as well as those three Archery World Cup Final silver medals.

KUMARI and her fellow recurve women were also named Indian Team of the Year, thanks to gold medals in Medellin and Wroclaw to close out the 2013 season.

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