Jayalakshmi Sarikonda

Jayalakshmi sarikonda' born on 19 August 1994 (Chandrapur, Maharashtra, India), height: 5 ft 2" is an Indian archer having competed internationally since 2008–present. She is mononymously called Lakshmi by all. Lakshmi was formerly a rifle shooter who later at the age of 11 turned to be an archer and opted archery as her career. She competes in the compound women event. She had won a lot of medals in the international archery events. She is a part of the bronze winning team in the youth world archery championships held in Utah, Usa 2009, and Wuxi, China 2013. Lakshmi was the youngest archer to participate in the world championships, Korea 2009. She had won laurels for the nation in both senior and junior categories. Lakshmi was declared the most promising archer of the year 2009 by Sahara Indiapariwar. She received the shiv chatrapati award from the maharastra government which is awarded to the elite sportsperson in maharastra. She won he silver medal in the team event at the Asian archery championships 2015 held at bangkok, thailand.She was also awarded the Women Of The Year Award 2012 by Dainik Bhaskar Group. She has depicted her talent in various reality shows in Hindi on Sony TV, and other regional TV programmes like adhurs and super on etv Telugu, etv kannad respectively.
She is born to sarikonda trinadh (mining engineer) and vani(teacher) and sarikonda saisiddardh (sibling ). She states she gives all the credit to her Dad who is with her all her life.