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In life, when difficulties and physical limitations try to block a person’s path, only unwavering willpower and unwavering courage become the weapons that propel one forward towards creating history. The life journey of Indian Para Archery star player Harvinder Singh has also been similarly struggling and inspiring. In childhood, at the age of just one and a half years, his legs stopped working due to a wrong injection, but he never considered this physical challenge as his destiny. On the strength of his hard work, continuous practice and never-say-die spirit, Harvinder Singh has once again made India proud on the international stage. Performing brilliantly in the Asian Para Games, he has won the gold medal in the archery competition. His golden success has not only made the entire nation proud, but has also lit a ray of hope for millions of people who are struggling with difficult circumstances.
Born in a middle-class farmer family of a small village in Haryana, Harvinder Singh had a very simple beginning. When he was only one and a half years old, he suffered from high fever. During treatment, he suffered paralysis in both his legs due to a reaction to a wrong medicine or injection. This accident shocked his family, but since childhood, Harvinder never considered himself weaker than others. Along with being top in studies, he maintained his interest in sports. During his college days, he saw the sport of archery for the first time and, inspired by the 2012 London Paralympics, decided to take up the bow and arrow. This journey, which started from the footpaths of the fields, has today reached the biggest sporting stages of the world, where he is continuously winning medals for India.
In this historic match of the Asian Para Games, Harvinder Singh’s utmost concentration and accuracy was seen from the very beginning. In the final match of the recurve men’s individual event, he faced the world’s best para archers. During a very tense and tough match, Harvinder maintained excellent control over his nerves and hit accurate targets one after the other. When in the final set he hit the bullseye straight with his last arrow, the entire stadium erupted in applause in support of India. When Harvinder Singh won the gold medal by giving a crushing defeat to the opposition player, the Indian tricolor was hoisted at the top and the echo of the national anthem gave goosebumps to every Indian sports lover.
Harvinder Singh is not only a champion in the field of sports, but he has also proved his mettle in the field of education. He is one of those rare athletes in the country who has continued his higher education while being at the highest pinnacle of the sport. Harvinder Singh has completed his Ph.D. in Economics, which is why he is fondly called ‘Doctor Harvinder’. Practicing archery for hours from morning till evening and then sitting among books till late night and writing research papers shows his strict discipline. His personality proves that if there is determination in the mind, a person can write history in both studies and sports simultaneously.
After this golden achievement of Harvinder Singh, the Prime Minister of the country, Sports Minister and various state governments have sent congratulatory messages to him. There is an atmosphere of celebration from social media to his home state Haryana and people are distributing sweets to each other. Sports experts believe that this gold medal of Harvinder Singh will boost the morale of the Indian team manifold for the upcoming Paralympic Games. After his victory, Harvinder said that his next goal is to hoist the tricolor for India once again in the Olympics and Paralympics. His success gives a message to the young generation of the country that if you have courage and the power of hard work, then even physical disability cannot come in the way of your dreams.