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Toddler secures archery record in India

Author
Newstalk ZB staff,
Publish Date
Thu, 26 Mar 2015, 7:56AM
Photo: Getty Images
Photo: Getty Images

Toddler secures archery record in India

Author
Newstalk ZB staff,
Publish Date
Thu, 26 Mar 2015, 7:56AM

A two-year-old Indian girl has set a new national record in archery.

Dolly Cherkuri - who turns three next week - has become the youngest Indian to score more than 200 points at a trial event.

Her achievement's been witnessed by senior sports personalities and India Book of Records officials.

Her father says she's been trained since birth to be a champion - she was conceived through surrogacy after the 2010 death of her brother who was an international archer.

Arrows were specially made for the toddler out of carbon to make them light enough for her when she was first learning.

They're now attempting to get Dolly's name into the Guinness Book of World Records.

 

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