Paralympics 2024: Harvinder Singh clinches India's first-ever Gold medal in archery

India's Para-archer Harvinder Singh created history on September 4, Wednesday as he got the first-ever Paralympics gold medal in the discipline for the nation in Paris. Harvinder defeated Poland's Lukasz Ciszek 6-0 with a dominant performance in the final of the Men's Individual Recurve Open to clinch India's 4th gold medal at the Paris Paralympics 2024. This was India's second medal of the day.

Harvinder had a near perfect start to the final as he was quickly off the blocks in the first set. He scored 9, 10 and 9 while Ciszek could only get 9,7 and 8



with his first 3 arrows. The next set saw both archers go neck-to-neck as they both hits 9s with their first 2 arrows. Ciszek finished with a 9 and Harvinder would go one better with a 10 to take a 4-0 lead.

Harvinder would then secure the medal with two 10s and a 9 in the third set to bring home the gold as Ciszek was only able to hit a 7 and 2 9s. This was Harvinder's second medal at the Paralympics as he won bronze in Tokyo in 2021. This was also India's third archery medal after Rakesh Kumar and Sheetal Devi won Bronze in the Mixed Team Compound Open.