Dhiraj Bommadevara Height, Age, Family, Biography
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Hometown: Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh
Height: 5' 11"
Age: 23 Years
Bio/Wiki | |
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Nickname | Diru |
Profession | Archer |
Physical Stats | |
Height (approx.) | 5' 11" (180 cm) |
Eye Colour | Black |
Hair Colour | Black |
Career | |
Coach | Kim Hyung Tak |
Medal(s) | Archery World Cup • Gold medal (2024; Shanghai) (Men's Team) • Silver medal (2023; Antalya) (Men's Team) • Bronze medal (2023; Antalya) (Individual) • Bronze medal (2023; Medellín) (Men's Team) • Bronze medal (2023; Paris) (Men's Team) • Bronze medal (2024; Shanghai) (Mixed Team) • Bronze medal (2024; Antalya) (Mixed Team) • Bronze medal (2024; Antalya) (Individual) Asian Games • Silver medal (2022; Hangzhou (Men's Team) World Youth Championships • Gold medal (2021; Wraclow) (Junior; Men's Team) |
Personal Life | |
Date of Birth | 3 September 2001 (Monday) |
Age (as of 2024) | 23 Years |
Birthplace | Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh |
Zodiac sign | Virgo |
Nationality | Indian |
Hometown | Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh |
School | Sri Nava Bharat School, Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh |
College/University | SRR & CVR Government Degree College, Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh |
Educational Qualification | A degree at the SRR & CVR Government Degree College, Vijayawada |
Religion | Hinduism |
Social Media | • Instagram |
Relationships & More | |
Marital Status | Unmarried |
Family | |
Parents | Father- Bommadevara Shravan Kumar (former technical official of the Archery Association of India, school teacher) Mother- Bommadevara Revathi (former school teacher) |
Some Lesser Known Facts About Dhiraj Bommadevara
- As a child, Dhiraj Bommadevara started liking archery as a sport after listening to the stories from the Indian epics Ramayana and Mahabharata at his home.
- When he was 5 years old, Dhiraj Bommadevara’s father gifted him his first bow and arrow.
- As he grew up, his love for archery also grew, but his family faced financial struggles.
- His father began working as a technical official in the Archery Association of India for a salary of around Rs. 5000 after the school he worked at shut down.
- Dhiraj Bommadevara’s father then mortgaged his mother’s mangal sutra to a bank to get a loan to buy archery equipment for Dhiraj. His father told him that this was the last thing he could do for Dhiraj.
- His father advised him that he had to choose between pursuing archery or continuing his studies and left the decision to him. Once, in a media conversation, he remembered that he thought that he would leave archery at that time. He said,
“I thought that I would leave archery. I was damaged by myself. I was so broken that I couldn’t do anything. I came to think like that.”
- Due to his family’s financial difficulties, Dhiraj had to make a tough decision. He then pursued archery and enrolled at the Cherukuri Volga Archery Academy in Vijayawada. He took training there from 2006 to 2018.
- After observing his performance in archery, the Olympic Gold Quest, a program of the Foundation for Promotion of Sports and Games, started supporting Dhiraj Bommadevara in his sports expenses.
- He joined the Indian Army in 2021 as a Havaldar after receiving professional training in archery at the Army Sports Institute in Pune for four years.
- In 2021, Dhiraj Bommadevara participated in the junior men’s team in the World Youth Championships organised in Wraclow and won a gold medal.
- He was selected to represent India at the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou, China. He competed in the Indian men’s recurve team with archers Atanu Das and Tushar Shelke and won a silver medal. They lost the final to the Republic of Korea.
- In January 2022, Dhiraj Bommadevara defeated Tarundeep Rai, a Tokyo Olympian, in a Ranking tournament organised in Hyderabad.
- In 2023, he represented India at the World Championships in Berlin, Germany. He competed in the men’s team, individual, and mixed team events.
- On 3 October 2023, Dhiraj Bommadevara faced a setback in the quarter-final of the individual event at the Asian Games against his opponent Abdullin. He blamed himself for a “technical fault” that caused him to miss the target twice, which led to his quarterfinal defeat.
- After that, in a media conversation, he said that he faced a lot of online abuse for his performance at the 2023 Asian Games, which left him “emotionally damaged.”
- In 2023, Dhiraj Bommadevara participated in the men’s individual and mixed team events in the recurve category at the World Cup in Antalya, Turkey.
- In 2023, at the World Cup Stage 3 in Medellin, Colombia, he won two bronze medals in the Men’s team and individual events.
- In September 2023, Dhiraj Bommadevara participated in the World Cup organised in Hermosillo.
- In 2023, he won bronze medals in the men’s individual event at the World Cups organised in Guatemala City, Guatemala, and Paris, France.
- Dhiraj Bommadevara competed in the men’s team, individual, and mixed team events at the World Cup organised in Shanghai, China, in 2024.
- He became the only Indian archer to secure a quota for the 2024 Paris Olympics. He qualified by winning a silver medal at the Asian Qualification Tournament in Bangkok in November 2023.
- Dhiraj Bommadevara is inspired by Atanu Das, an archery Olympian.