Purnima Mahato Biography: Personal Life, Career, Playing Style, Age, Height, Facts & Networth

Purnima Mahato Biography

Purnima Mahato an Indian archer and instructor hails from Jamshedpur. Purnima won the 1998 Commonwealth Games silver medal and the Indian national archery championships. Purnima Mahato was chosen to lead the Indian national team at the 2012 Summer Olympics after serving as the squad’s coach at the 2008 Summer Games. On August 29, of the year 2013, the President of India gave Purnima the Dronacharya Award for the year 2013.

Archery Career

Mahato watched archery as a child at a range in Birsanagar, Jamshedpur. When the range in Birsanagar closed, Purnima Mahato continued her training there until transferring to one in Burmamines, Jamshedpur. In the year 1992, Purnima Mahato was selected for the Indian national team and relocated to Delhi to practice with them.

Mahato won medals as an archer in both domestic and international contests. Purnima Mahato was also a national champion for India. Purnima Mahato won a gold medal for her team in the 1993 International Archery Championship. In the archery event at the 1994 Pune National Games, Purnima Mahato took home six gold medals. Purnima participated in the Asian Games in the year 1994 but didn’t win a medal.

Purnima won two gold medals and established two national records in the year 1997 at the National Championships. At the Commonwealth Games in the year 1998, Purnima took home a silver medal. Dola Banerjee beat the 30-meter archery record Mahato had established two years prior at the 1999 Indian National Games.

Coaching Career

Mahato is a trainer for archery. She began working as a coach at the Tata Archery Academy in 1994 and retained that post until the year 2012. Olympic archer Deepika Kumari was one of the archers she directly coached in the year 2012.

At a number of competitions, notably the 2005 Senior World Outdoor Archery Championship in Spain, when her team won a silver medal, Mahato has served as a coach for the Indian national teams. Purnima Mahato also served as the Indian team’s coach at the 2007 Senior Asian Archery Championship in China, where the men’s team she led to victory and the women’s team to third-place finishes. In the year 2008, Purnima Mahato served as India’s assistant coach at the Summer Olympics.

Purnima Mahato also served as the Indian team’s coach for the 2008 World Cup in Croatia, where her archers won a silver and a bronze medal. At the 2009 World Youth Archery Championship, Purnima Mahato guided India. The three Indian archers she tutored competed in the 2010 Archery World Cup Grand. Her archers won two bronze medals in the individual competitions while Purnima Mahato was coaching the Indian national squad at the 2010 Asian Games.

Her archers won three gold and two bronze medals while competing for India’s national squad in the 2010 Commonwealth Games. Purnima Mahato won the 2011 TURF Global Sports Summit Coach of the Year award. On June 23, of the year 2012, at Ranchi’s Olympic Day Run celebrations, she received the Ram Dayal Munda Award from the Government of Jharkhand for being the year’s best coach.

Mahato has been chosen to lead India’s national squad at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Awards

The President of India presented Purnima Mahato with the Dronacharya Award for 2013 on August 29, of the year 2013. The first woman from Jharkhand to receive the prestigious Dronacharya Award is Purnima Mahato.

Bio Data

Full Name: Purnima Mahato

Nationality: Indian

Born: Jamshedpur

Sport Details

Country: India

Sport: Archery

Club: Tata Archery Academy

Team: Indian Archery Team Coach

Turned Pro: 1993

Achievements and Titles

Highest world ranking: National Champions