Sanjay, Atul win OGQ scholarship

BENGALURU: Promising archers Sanjay Boro and Atul Verma has been selected by the Olympic Gold Quest (OGQ) as part of its junior scholarship programme.
The 19-year-old Boro has shown excellent improvement over the past two years and is the one of the most promising junior archers having represented the senior team in four tournaments in 2014-15. Last month, he won an individual gold medal at the Asia Cup Stage 2 in Bangkok.
Atul Verma, 17 years, has won multiple medals at the national level events including the team gold for Uttar Pradesh at the National Games. The winner of a bronze medal at the 2014 Youth Olympics in China, Verma has already represented the senior India team at two Grand Prix events. The two archers are now gearing up for the World Youth Championships in USA in June.
"One of the endeavors of OGQ is to identify and groom the most promising young talent in the country across various sports. Sanjay and Atul are very talented young archers who we have selected after rigorous research. OGQ is supporting them for the long term with an eye on the 2020 and 2024 Olympics," Viren Rasquinha, CEO OGQ said.
The OGQ already supports seven senior archers Deepika Kumari, Bombayla Devi, Rimil Buriuly, Jayanta Talukdar, Tarundeep Rai, Atanu Das and Rahul Banerjee. 17 year old archer Madhu Vedwan is part of the junior scholarship program, the OGQ said in a press release.