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{{short description|Indian archer}}
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{{Use Indian English|date=July 2018}}
{{Infobox sportsperson
| name = Dola Banerjee
| image = Dola_banerjee.JPG
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1980|06|02}}
| birth_place = [[Baranagar]], [[North 24 Parganas district]], [[West Bengal]]
| nationality = Indian
| occupation = [[Sportsperson|Sportsman]] ([[Archery|Archer]])
| headercolor = lightsteelblue
| show-medals = yes
| medaltemplates =
{{MedalSport|Women's [[archery]]}}
{{MedalCountry|{{IND}}}}
{{MedalCompetition | [[FITA Archery World Cup|World Cup]]}}
{{MedalGold|[[2007 FITA Archery World Cup|2007 Dubai]]|Individual}}
{{MedalCompetition | [[Commonwealth Games]]}}
{{MedalGold|[[2010 Commonwealth Games|2010 New Delhi]]|[[Archery at the 2010 Commonwealth Games|Team Recurve]]}}
{{MedalBronze|[[2010 Commonwealth Games|2010 New Delhi]]|[[Archery at the 2010 Commonwealth Games|Individual Recurve]]}}
{{MedalCompetition | [[Asian Games]]}}
{{MedalBronze|[[Archery at the 2010 Asian Games|2010 Guangzhou]]|Recurve Team}}
}}

'''Dola Banerjee''' ({{lang-bn|দোলা ব্যানার্জি}};born 2 June 1980) is an [[India]]n sportswoman who competes in [[archery]].<ref>{{cite web|title=DOLA BANERJEE|url=http://sportzdivas.net/star_dolabanerjee.html|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120916210747/http://sportzdivas.net/star_dolabanerjee.html|archivedate=2012-09-16}}</ref>

==Early life==
Dola Banerjee is daughter of Ashok Banerjee and Kalpana Banerjee. She was born in [[Baranagar]] near [[Kolkata]]. She studied in Baranagar Rajkumari Memorial Girls High School. At the age of eight, she joined Baranagar Archery Club.<ref>[http://www.telegraphindia.com/1070912/asp/telekids/story_8304908.asp My Fundays by Dola Banerjee] in ''The Telegraph'', 14 September 2007</ref> Her first international appearance was in Youth World Championship in San Diego in 1996<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.archeryworldcup.org/content.asp?me_id=331&cnt_id=2484. |title=Dola Banerjee, biography |website=archeryworldcup.org |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722051842/http://www.archeryworldcup.org/content.asp?me_id=331&cnt_id=2484. |archivedate=22 July 2011 }}</ref>

== Career ==
[[File:XIX Commonwealth Games-2010 Delhi Archery (Women’s Individual Recurve) Deepika Kumari of India (Gold), Alison Jane Williamson of England (Silver) and Dola Banerjee of India (Bronze) during the medal presentation ceremony.jpg|thumb|XIX Commonwealth Games-2010 Delhi Archery (Women’s Individual Recurve) Deepika Kumari of India (Gold), Alison Jane Williamson of England (Silver) and Dola Banerjee of India (Bronze) during the medal presentation ceremony]]

[[File:The President Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam presenting the Arjuna Award -2005 to Ms. Dola Banerjee for Archery, at a glittering function in New Delhi on August 29, 2006.jpg|thumb|The President Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam presenting the Arjuna Award -2005 to Ms. Dola Banerjee for Archery, at a glittering function in New Delhi on August 29, 2006]]

Dola Banerjee started archery at the Baranagar Archery Club in 1990 when she was barely 9 years of age. She represented at the tender age of 16 at the Youth World Championship, Sandiego in 1996. Since then she has been a regular member of the Indian women’s archery team. Dola Banerjee represented India at the [[2004 Summer Olympics]]. She was placed 13th in the women's individual ranking round with a 72-arrow score of 642. In the first round of elimination, she faced 52nd-ranked [[Kirstin Jean Lewis]] of [[South Africa]]. Dola fell victim to an upset, losing 141-131 in the 18-arrow match, placing 52nd overall in women's individual archery. Dola was also a member of the 8th-place Indian women's archery team.

During her 20 years in international Archery she has represented the country at more than 50 competitions including 2 Olympic Games, 3 Asian Games, 4 World Championship, 4 Asian Championship, 11 World Cups, 3 European Grand Prix, 10 Asian Grand Prix, 2 SAF Games, 1 Commonwealth Games and many others. She has won more than 16 Gold, 3 Silver and 8 Bronze medals for the country.

Dola Banerjee won the second international gold medal of her career when she won the individual recurve title of the fourth leg of the Meteksan World Cup archery at Dover (England) in August 2007. Having won the fourth leg, she qualified for the world cup final held at Dubai in November 2007 where the winners of the four legs competed.<ref>[https://archive.is/20130125151741/http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=a594e4b1-ac5d-4dd0-b6ce-9ccb8f6dc775&ParentID=cbe5c184-c8e8-498d-84a5-2504aa318f27&&Headline=Dola+creates+history,+sits+on+top+of+the+world Dola creates history, sits on top of the world- Hindustan Times]</ref>

Dola Banerjee became world champion in archery by winning the gold medal in the women's individual recurve competition at the archery world cup held at Dubai, in November 2007. [http://www.rediff.com/sports/2007/nov/24dola.htm]

Dola Banerjee is the second woman archer to be honored with the [[Arjuna award]] by the [[Government of India]] in 2005.<ref name="ht">[http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=cbe5c184-c8e8-498d-84a5-2504aa318f27&&Headline=Idol%20Dola%20becomes%20an%20icon Idol Dola becomes an icon- Hindustan Times]{{dead link|date=December 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

=== Contribution at National Level ===
At the National Level she has won more than 52 gold, 21 silver and eight bronze medals. Her absolute dominance at the Junior National Level during the five years that she played at that level is clear as she won a medal in all categories by winning 19 gold, five silver and six bronze medals. She won 30 medals out of a possibility of 30 medals.

Dola Banerjee was honored by the Indian Government when she was awarded the Arjuna Award in 2005 for her excellent contribution to Archery.

She was a Member in the Sports Development body of the West Bengal Government since July 2011 and playing a key role in development of sports in her state.

Banerjee was also a member of the Steering Committee for Youth Affairs and Sports for the Twelfth Five Year Plan.

She is also actively involved with Baranagar Archery Club, her local club where she started her career, for the development of the sport.

Presently she is employed with the Eastern Railways. She has been also part of the Railways Sports Promotion Board contingent, traveling to the London Olympics 2012 and Rio Olympics 2016.

===2008 Beijing Summer Olympics===
Dola represented India in the women's individual as well as team events at the [[2008 Beijing Olympics]], but failed to reach the finals in both events. She teamed up with [[Pranitha Vardhineni]] and [[Bombayala Devi]] in the team event. They were ranked sixth in the qualifiers. They got a bye in the round of 16, but lost to [[China]] by 206-211 in the quarterfinals. in the individual event, she was ranked 31st, and lost to [[Marie-Pier Beaudet]] of [[Canada]] by 8-10 in the tie break, after scoring 108-108 in the full set of arrows.<ref name="bio">{{cite web |url=http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/BIO/Athlete/1/205921.shtml |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080813055727/http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/BIO/Athlete/1/205921.shtml |archivedate=2008-08-13 |url-status=dead |title=Athlete biography: Dola Banerjee |website=[[Beijing2008.cn]] |accessdate=23 August 2008}}</ref>

===2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games===
In [[Commonwealth Games 2010]] in [[New Delhi]], she won Gold Medal in Women's Team Recurve with [[Deepika Kumari]] and [[L Bombayala Devi]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/commonwealth-games-2010/india-news/Dola-Co-create-history-with-archery-gold/cwgarticleshow/6712775.cms |title=Dola & Co create history with archery gold |access-date=14 October 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101013220243/http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/commonwealth-games-2010/india-news/Dola-Co-create-history-with-archery-gold/cwgarticleshow/6712775.cms |archive-date=13 October 2010 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

She also won a Bronze medal on the Recurve Individual event.

== Achievements ==

* Arjuna Award on the year of 2005.
* 1st woman who have qualified for Olympic in the individual event on 2004 Athens Olympic.
* Won Individual Gold on 2007 World Cup and as well as World Cup Final on the same year.
* Won gold in the 2010 Commonwealth games.
* Team Bronze in the Asian Games in 2010.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+
!
!
!
!
!
|-
|'''Year'''
|'''Name of the Competition'''
|'''Venue'''
|'''Name of the Event'''
|'''Place'''
|-
|'''2010'''
|16th Asian Games
|Gwangju, China
|Team
|Bronze
|-
|'''2010'''
|19th Commonwealth Games
|New Delhi
|Indv

Team
|Bronze

Gold
|-
|
== 2010 ==
|3rd World Cup
|Ogden,USA
|Team
|Silver
|-
|'''2010'''
|2nd World Cup
|Antaliya,Turkey
|Indv
|4th
|-
|'''2010'''
|1st World Cup
|Porec,Croatia
|
|Participate
|-
|'''2010'''
|1st Asian Grand Prix
|Bangkokok

Thailand
|Team
|Gold
|-
|'''2010'''
|SAF Games
|Dhaka Bangladesh
|Indv

Team
|Gold

Gold
|-
|'''2009'''
|5th Asian Grand Prix
<br />
|Dhaka,Bangladesh
|Indv

Team
|Gold

Gold
|-
|'''2009'''
|4th Asian Grand Prix
|Kolkata, India
|Indv

Team
|Bronze

Gold
|-
|'''2009'''
|45th World Archery Championship
|Ulsan, Korea
|
|Participate
|-
|'''2009'''
|3rd World Cup
|Antalya,Turkey
|Team
|Bronze
|-
|'''2009'''
|2nd World Cup
|Porec, Croatia
|Team
|4th
|-
|'''2009'''
|1st World Cup
|Dominican Republic,
|Indv
|Bronze
|-
|'''2008'''
|Asian Grand Prix
|Manila, Philippines
|Indv

Team
|Bronze

Gold
|-
|'''2008'''
|XXIX Olympic Games
|Beijing, China
|Team
|7th
|-
|'''2008'''
|3rd Archery World Cup
|Antalya , Turkey
|<nowiki>-------------</nowiki>
|Participated
|-
|'''2008'''
|2nd Archery World Cup
|Porec, Croatia
|<nowiki>-------------</nowiki>
|Participated
|-
|'''2008'''
|1st Archery World Cup
|Santo Domingo
|<nowiki>-------------</nowiki>
|Participated
|-
|'''2007'''
|World Cup Final
|Dubai
|Individual
|Gold
|-
|'''2007'''
|Asian Archery Grand Prix
|Isfahan, Iran
|Team
|Gold
|-
|'''2007'''
|Asian Archery Championship, China
|China
|Team
|Bronze
|-
|'''2007'''
|World Archery Championship, Germany
|Germany
|Women Team Qualified for Olympics 08
|
|-
|'''2007'''
|4th World Cup
|Dover , Great Britain
|Individual

Team
|Gold

Bronze
|-
|'''2007'''
|2nd World Cup
|Antalya, Turkey
|<nowiki>-----------</nowiki>
|Participated
|-
|'''2007'''
|2nd World Cup
|Antalia, Turkey
|<nowiki>-----------</nowiki>
|Participated
|-
|'''2007'''
|1st World Cup
|Ulsan, Korea
|Individual
|Lost in Quarter Final
|-
|'''2006'''
|Asian Games
|Doha, Quatar
|Individual
|4th
<br />
|-
|'''2006'''
|Asian Circuit
|Myanmar,
|Team
|Silver
|-
|'''2006'''
|4th World Cup
|Sanghai, China
|Team
<br />
|4th
|-
|'''2006'''
|SAF Games
|Colombo, Sri Lanka
|Individual

Team
|Gold

Gold
|-
|'''2006'''
|2nd World Cup
|Antalia, Turkey
|Individual
|Lost In quarter Final
|-
|'''2006'''
|1st World Cup
|Croatia
|<nowiki>--------------</nowiki>
|Participated
|-
|'''2006'''
|SAF Championship
|Bangladesh
|Individual

Team
|Gold

Gold
<br />
|-
|'''2005'''
|Asian Archery Championship
|New Delhi
|Team
|Bronze
|-
|'''2005'''
|Senior World Archery Championship
|Madrid , Spain
|Team
|4th Place
|-
|'''2005'''
|European Grand Prix
|Antalya, Turkey
|Individual.

Team
|Gold

Silver
|-
|'''2004'''
|XXVIII Olympic Games
|Athens
|Team
|8th Place
|-
|'''2004'''
|3rd European grand Prix

|Turkey
|Individual.

Team
|7th Place

4th Place
|-
|'''2004'''
|2nd European Grand Prix
|Germany
|Team
|4th Place
|-
|'''2003'''
|13th Asian Archery Championship
|Myanmar
|Team
|4th Place
|-
|'''2003'''
|42nd World Archery Championship
|New York
|Individual
|Lost In quarter Final
|}

==Personal life==
Dola Banerjee is married to a corporate professional, Medhadeep Banerjee. and is a mother of a son, Diyan. Her younger brother [[Rahul Banerjee (archer)|Rahul Banerjee]] is also an archer. She is a cousin of the singers [[Shaan (singer)|Shaan]] and [[Sagarika daCosta|Sagarika]].<ref name="ht"/>

==See also==
* [[Archery at the 2010 Commonwealth Games]]
* [[Indian Squad for 2008 Olympics]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{SR/Olympics|ba/dola-banerjee-1|archive=20161202213807}}
* {{IOC profile|dola-banerjee}}

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