With a impressive jaw strengthwhile holds his heavy compound bow with his right footand breathe calmly, Sheetal Devi (17 years old), achieved the dream of many archers: connect a perfect 10 during his presentation of Archery at the 2024 Paralympic Games.
with a msilver medal won in the Czech Republic at the 2023 Paralympic Archery World Championships and 2 golds at the 2022 Para Asian Games, Sheetal Devi It was presented as the great bet of the Indian contingent to win the gold metal in the Paris event.
Sheetal Devi, a unique story
Para athletes have earned respect and undoubted admiration of the entire public that watches them day after day in anticipation of their dates at the summer fair in Paris, to show everyone that despite physical disabilitiesthey can achieve unprecedented feats.
Such is the case of the young woman from India, Sheetal Devi, who comes from a farming family in Jammu and Kashmir in the north of the country, where he was born without fully developed arms because of a stranger congenital disorder called phocomelia.
Devi is the only archer in the world that competes without its upper limbs, overcoming difficulties and leaving an indelible mark in the discipline, one of the oldest in the Paralympic Games.
At 15 years old, Sheetal took a bow and arrow for the first time in 2021, who always saw himself as Matt Stutzman -2012 Paralympic medalist who shares the same condition-, and since then He has been motivated to go as far as possibleand today he managed to conquer the hearts of the public.
Sheetal Devi makes a perfect 10
Sheetal has never visited the capital of India, but for 2 years she The young archer has begun her professional career, has managed to visit many countries, to the extent that today, managed to qualify to participate in the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games.
Your ability took her to the round of 16 in Compound Archery where she faced the Chilean, Mariana Zúñiga. Sheetal She looked calm, took her pulley bow with her right foot, slid the arrow between the cables, and With the help of his jaw he pulled the bow stronglyand without owing it or fearing it, hit a perfect 10 on the shooting target.
However, Devi was eliminated by Zúñiga by just 1 point difference (138 to 137), so your participation in Paris 2024 has already ended but she managed to captivate the entire public and the Internet with her great feat, and we will surely expect more from her in the next edition of the Paralympics.
This was Sheetal Devi’s perfect 10 in Paris 2024
