India’s Sheetal Devi competes within the ladies’s particular person compound archery occasion on the 4th Asian Para Games, in Hangzhou, China on Oct. 27, 2023. Devi received the gold medal within the occasion.
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Teenaged armless archer Sheetal Devi on October 27 grew to become the first Indian woman to win two gold medals in a single version of the Asian Para Games by claiming the highest honours within the ladies’s particular person compound occasion right here.
It is a hat-trick of medals for the 16-year-old from Jammu and Kashmir, who holds her bow together with her foot.
Earlier this week, Sheetal received a gold within the compound combined workforce occasion and girls’s doubles silver.
Discovered at a navy camp in a distant a part of Kishtwar and adopted by the Indian Army in her childhood, Sheetal, who grew to become the first armless woman to win a Para World Archery Championships medal in July, defeated Singapore’s Alim Nur Syahidah 144-142 within the gold medal match.
Ankur Dhama had turn into the first Indian to win two gold medals in a single version earlier this week.
India’s medal rush continued on the penultimate day of competitions as the country’s tally swelled to 94 medals with shuttlers contributing with 9 medals.
Reigning Paralympic champion shuttler Pramod Bhagat secured a gold medal within the single SL3 class as he outplayed compatriot Nitesh Kumar 22-20, 21-19 within the closing.
(*2*)Somehow even once I was trailing, I had a perception that I might make a comeback and will win, the considered shedding by no means occurred to me. I centered on 1 level at a time and made it doable,” he added.
Tokyo Paralympics silver medallist IAS officer Suhas Lalinakere Yathiraj bettered his bronze from the final version by profitable gold within the SL4 closing. Sukant Kadam took dwelling the bronze in the identical occasion.
Thulasmathi Murugesan warded off the problem posed by native shuttler Yang Qiuxia by eking out a 21-19, 21-19 win to clinch the coveted yellow steel within the ladies’s SU5 closing. Additionally, India’s Manisha Ramadass grabbed the bronze medal.
In within the males’s doubles SL3-SLF4, Nitesh and Tarun received the gold whereas Bhagat mixed with Sukant to bag the bronze.
Reigning Paralympic champion Krishna Nagar settled for a silver as he went down combating 10-21, 21-8, 11-21 in opposition to Hong Kong’s Chu Man Kai within the males’s SH6 closing.
In athletics, Raman Sharma reigned supreme within the males’s 1500m T38 occasion with a brand new Asian and Games file time of 4:20.80s whereas javelin throwers Pradeep Kumar (25.94m) and Laxit (21.20m) clinched the silver and bronze medals within the F54 occasion with private greatest efforts.
Discuss thrower Lakshmi too discovered a spot on the rostrum as she bagged the bronze medal with a private greatest effort of twenty-two.55m within the ladies’s F37.38 closing.
Archers Rakesh Kumar defeated Iran’s Alisin Manshaezadeh in 144(10)-144(9) in a shoot-off to win the silver medal in males’s compound occasion.
