Enjoy: Arm-Less Archer Sheetal Devi Draws Rousing Applause At National Sports Awards Ceremony

Para-archer Sheetal Devi was honoured by the Arjuna award © Twitter India’s best-performing professional athletes were on Tuesday consulted the nationwide sports awards by President Droupadi Murmu in a regal event where cricketer Mohammed Shami and para archer Sheetal Devi strolled in to a rapturous applause at the Rashtrapati Bhawan. Shuttlers Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy were selected for the desired Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna award for a breakout 2023, throughout which they won their first Asian Games gold– a very first for India in badminton–, while likewise clinching the Asian Championships title and the Indonesia Open Super 1000 title. The duo is presently playing in Malaysia Open Super 1000 and for that reason avoided the function. The awards event, normally hung on August 29 to honor the birth anniversary of hockey legend Major Dhyan Chand, was delayed since of the Hangzhou Asian Games from September 23 till October 8 in 2015. An environment of merriment pervaded the Rashtrapati Bhawan as 26 professional athletes and para-athletes were settled for the Arjuna Awards this year, with teen handgun ace Esha Singh the just one to miss out on the event. The 19-year-old Esha is contending in the Asian Olympic Qualifiers in Jakarta and, on Monday, had actually gotten approved for the Paris Olympics after winning the specific and group gold in 10m air handgun. The imprint of the Asian Games in 2015, and India’s record haul of 107 medals there, appeared in the event as a bulk of the professional athletes, who strolled to the dais, were medal winners in Hangzhou. The Durbar Hall resounded with the claps of the dignitaries when para archer Sheetal Devi, winner of 3 gold medals at the Para Asian Games in Hangzhou, approached gather her Arjuna. The 16-year-old is the only global para-archery champ without upper limbs due to an uncommon medical condition called Phocomelia. The President held Sheetal’s
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