India's Deepika Kumari won her first World Cup individual recurve gold medal on Saturday in Antalya, Turkey, beating South Korea's Lee Sung Jin by six set points to four in the final, according to information received here.Deepika won the second set (29-27), fourth (27-26) and the fifth set (28-27) after losing the first (27-30) and the third (27-29). Deepika is the current junior World Champion and a gold medallist at the Delhi Commonwealth Games. She had also won the Cadet World Title in 2009.
Deepika Kumari was born on13 June 1994. She was born in the city of Ranchi, in the state of Jharkhand, India. Deepika Kumari father Shivnarayan Mahato, an auto-rickshaw driver and Geeta Mahato, a nurse in Ranchi Medical College. In the early days it was rather difficult for the parents to financially support Deepika's dream, often compromising on the family budget to buy her new equipments for her training. In fact, when her father came to know that she wanted to make a career in archery, he wasn't happy. But the young gutsy archer never gave up and started her practice with bamboo made bows and arrows. Finally it was Deepika's cousin Vidya Kumari, also an archer at Tata Archery Academy, who showed her the way.
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