Dressing yourself. Remembering to say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’. These are the usual achievements of your average 2-year-old.
Step
forward Dolly Shivani Cherukuri. Nine days before her third birthday,
the eagle-eyed archer became the youngest Indian to score more than 200
points at a trial event, according to the India Book of Records.
Dolly
scored a total of 388 points. She began by firing 36 arrows at a target
15 feet away, then shot 36 more, this time from 21 feet.
The
young record-breaker was being set up for bow and arrow stardom “when
she was in the womb itself,” Cherukuri Satyanarayana, Dolly’s father,
told AFP. Light carbon arrows were made so she wouldn’t struggle with
their weight when training.
“You
can’t put too much pressure on children, they can be trained for a
maximum of two or three hours a day,” he explained. “But Dolly comes
from a family of archers so she’s capable of a lot.”
Archery
is indeed in the blood. Dolly’s father runs an academy and her older
brother, who sadly died in 2011, was an international archer and coach.
The record-breaker with her medal and certificate.
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