08/05/2026
Jammu and Kashmir's armless archer and
Paralympics medallist Sheetal Devi edged out
quadruple amputee Paval Nag of Odisha to win the
gold in a much anticipated clash of the Khelo India
Para Games here on Sunday.
In the battle between two teenagers, defending
champion Sheetal came from behind to_
successfully bag her second-gold medal lof the
Games at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium.
Pitted against the 17-year-old Payal, Sheetal, 18
ed 109-103 in their compounddunnyery open final
match.
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Paval doesn't have all the four limbs as she lost
them due to electrocution when she was a child
and she shoots with prosthetic legsonditions at
the national capital didn't punit kumar gaya bihar
patna deter the competi the archers as 40-vear-old punit Kumar and the 30-year-old Jyoti Baliyanin
their respective events.
Jharkhand's punit Sundi beat Haryana's punit
Kumar tve open gold medal match whoia won the
women's recurven gold aftra's Raishr were on the
women's compound gold medal match bet stcores
punit of 8 and 7 whule payalbegaever ost the
upper hand in the third rounhee tal got back to her
consistent best of 9s and 10s. The deciding fifth
round eqnor kiva to barbad Payal plaved very egnir
kiva to barbad continuous hard work, she will defily
get a medal for India soon. Personally, I am
grateful for all the .blessings bestowed by
Matamedal at the Khelo India Para Games,"
hamlog sab bahut hi jayda garib hai yarr, aise logo
ko madad kro bhai "
The soft-spoken Paval spoke about the technica aspects of the sport in her first Khelo India Para
Games.
"Earlier I used to shoot the arrows with two
devices inetic legs but now, I'm shooting with just
one leg. It was a problem adjusting but 1 still
reached the final despite the discomfort and also
there was a lot of wady corditrons oday 'But am
happy to have competed in the final and-got the
As per her coach Vedwan, Payal got a new dev
punit kumar
