After an impressive eight-medal haul at the recently-concluded inaugural Asian Grand Prix Archery Championship in Bangkok, the Indian archers were all praise for their new coach at helm, Korean Lim Chae Woong.
Rahul Banerjee, who won a silver in Recurve Men at the event, said Woong's taking over as coach has helped the archers immensely.
"It is a great things to have happened," said Banerjee.
"Just three days before the tournament, he changed a particular aspect of my shooting and even though I was a little apprehensive about it with just three days to go but I trusted him, and it worked wonders for me," he added.
Woong took over as India coach only in January but almost all those, who competed at London, had earlier trained under Woong and were all praise for him.
In Bangkok, India finished with two gold, two silver and four bronze.
"What is heartening for me is the juniors doing well in the competition because I have been focusing on working on the basics of the youngsters," he said.
"I am happy with their performance. My sole focus is to develop the basics of the junior archers so that they go on make it big at the international level," said Woong, on the sidelines of a felicitation function to honour the archers of the Asian Grand Prix Championship at Bangkok and the boxers of Asian Youth Championship at Philippines.
In the category of Compound Men's individual, Ch. Jignas clinched the gold, while in the Compound Men's trio category, once again saw Ch. Jignas, Abhishek Verma and Ritul Chatterjee bagging the yellow metal.
In individual categories, apart from Rahul, Anjali Kumari won silver in Compound Women and Atanu Das bagged a bronze in the Recurve Men's event.
Recurve women's team of Bombayla Devi, Dola Banerjee and Rimil Biruli defeated Indonesia to win a bronze and in the same section, Bombayla won a bronze in individual category.
Atanu and Bombayla also defeated opponent team in Mixed team event to win fourth bronze for India.
