Harvinder Singh managed to achieve what the country’s archery brotherhood had looked for age.
Children aged 31 years from the village of Ajitnagar Kaitna Regency, Friday picked up the first Paralympics medal in India in sports, past Kim Min Su from South Korea in the shooting to accommodate bronze in the category of Individual Recurve in Tokyo.
Harvinder again made a great comeback after losing to the world No.
10 Kevin Mather from US 6-4 (25-28, 24-24, 25-25, 25-24, 24-26) in the semifinals that day.
In the Bronze-Medal Playoff, India No.
23 India could not solve things while leading 5-3 when the Korean rival grabbed the fifth set to tie the score and force a shot.
His father’s efforts to turn his agricultural land into the archery range during locking finally paid off.
Coming from a middle class farm, Harvinder has a little knowledge about archery until he joins Punjabi University in Patiala in 2010.
It was on campus that he first saw archery training.
However, he decided to give a serious archery, only after watching it in London 2012 Paralympics on television.
Finding time for exercise is not easy while pursuing a doctorate in the economic field.
But the Hardinder has faced challenges since the day of a local doctor, who visited by his parents when a one and a half year old harshed with bloody fever, gave an injection that had a bad effect and his legs stopped functioning properly.
Harvinder, who was never hampered by disability, started new travel training twice a day and studied in the afternoon and end nights.