Three-year-old kid archery Dolly Shivani entered the India Book of Records as the first mixed recurve archer of the country by performing with five archers in five different distances at the Volga Archery Academy here on Sunday.
Shivani, who made her entry into the record book as the India’s youngest archer in March, competed with V. Sai (10m), Bilwesh Dutta Sai (9m), Susanth (8m), Virat Sai (7m) and Nischal (6m) and scored more than the required points set by the adjudicator.
Shivani hauled 90 points with V. Sai in 10 metre distance, while 105 points with Bilwesh in the nine-metre.
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“With Susanth, she punched 95 points in eight-metre and 85 with Virat Sai in seven. Along with Nischal she scored 110 points in the six-metre distance,” said Viswaroop Roy Chowdary, the representative of the India Book of Records.
“In total, Shivani used 40 arrows (8 X 5 rounds) while each of her fellow archers used eight each,” he added.
The archers from the academy set a new record in which 39 archers belonging to Indian, Recurve and Compound segments, using different bows took part in a group event.
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“In 29 minutes and 55 seconds they scored 430 points in the 15 metre distance aiming at a 122 centimetre target face. The specified time was 60 minutes and 320 arrows. They did it in less than half time,” said Mr Chowdary.
The group event saw literally everyone from Volga Archery Academy, including chairman Cherukuri Satyanarayana to rookie archers taking part.
Machilipatnam MP K. Narayana, local corporator D. Annapurna, sports administrators Jasti Satyanarayana, K.P. Rao and others took part in the event.
The five-member film crew from United States of America, which is here to shoot a trailer on Shivani, captured the entire event.