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Ch. Jignas Goud, the youngest archer and instrumental in winning team Silver medal in Commonwealth Games of 2010 that was held at New Delhi in India by defeating South Africa with 226-224 in semifinal and settled for Silver medal by losing to England in final with 229-231 points. Jignas was instrumental in entering final by scoring 78 points out of 80 (8 Arrows) in semi final and scored a record of 79 points out of 80(8 Arrows) to win silver medal by the Indian team comprising Ritul Chatterjee and Chinna alias Raju Sridhar.〔http://in.news.yahoo.com/20/20101007/1416/tnl-compound-archers-shed-their-underdog_1.html〕 Jignas is also credited for being youngest boy at the age of 14 years to participate in all Sub Junior, Junior and Senior Nationals in one single year between 2007-2008 held in India and Turkey. He is also credited for being youngest boy of 16 years old to play in Senior Archery world cup held in Croatia in 2010.〔http://jeetlocwg.in/site/ch-jignas/〕 His superlative performance at the schooling age of 14 while studying class IX in Second South Asian Archery championship held in Jamshedpur has brought fame to the entire Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh archery fraternity and also to Volga Archery academy under international coach Lenin, who died in an accident while travelling back home along with his team after receiving accolades and felicitation for winning Silver medal from E. S. L. Narasimhan, Governor of Andhra Pradesh and K. Roshaiah, Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, although his team members escaped unhurt. ==Personal Details== Jignas was born on January 12, 1994 to Sri. Ch.V. Rajasekhar an Irrigation Engineer and Smt. Ch. Nalini at Vijaywada in Andhra Pradesh.〔http://jeetlocwg.in/site/ch-jignas/〕 His fine skills were first noticed by his father when he was shooting darts accurately and took up archery at the age of 8 in May 2002 as he has facilities for archery training in his native place, although he was actually interested in shooting.〔http://in.news.yahoo.com/20/20101007/1416/tnl-compound-archers-shed-their-underdog_1.html〕〔http://jeetlocwg.in/site/ch-jignas/〕 His Father and Mother both being sports persons, encouraged and supported him right from his youth in sports despite high cost of Archery equipment. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jignas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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