DOGRA HERALD BUREAU
JAMMU, Nov 27
Adding to her expanding list of firsts, prodigious Indian para archer Sheetal Devi won the Best Youth Athlete Of The Year honour at the Asian Awards 2023 in Riyadh on Saturday, November 25. The 16-year-old became the first Indian athlete ever to win the laurel.
According to World Para Archery, Sheetal is the world’s first female archer to compete internationally without arms. She is not just competing, however. The teenager is winning medals at major events in a dream debut season.
Sheetal won the the silver medal at the World Para Archery Championships in Pilsen in the Czech Republic earlier this year, and followed it up with three medals at the Asian Para Games 2023 in Hangzhou that catapulted her to national attention. Her tally included two gold medals, which made her the first Indian woman to win two gold in a single edition of the Asian Para Games.
