Sheetal Devi now a worldwide star at Paralympics 2024, India's star called 'Truly Incredible'

The Indian contingent at the Paralympics has been continuously delivering medals in Paris. And one of the athletes from India has captured the imagination of everyone with her spectacular display in Paris. Sheetal Devi has emerged as a superstar after the armless archer's incredible outing in the Paralympics caught a lot of attention. Her ability to perform archery without arms and hunting the perfect ten has wowed the fans. Not just in India, but Sheetal has been receiving international recognition with everyone mesmerised by her grit and talent. 

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Sheetal Devi Stuns Renowned Celebrities & Dignitaries With Her Brilliance in Armless Archery at 2024 Paris Paralympics

Sheetal Devi is one of India's youngest para-archers and has turned heads with her performance at the Paralympics. She hit the bullseye, which amazed the fans as they cheered for her in the stadium. Her immaculate skills in using her arms to shoot arrows at the target garnered a lot of applause and recognition over social media platforms. Not just in India, but Devi's performance has been recognized by some world-renowned entities.

British Broadcaster Piers Morgan was amazed at Sheetal Devi's bow and arrow skills as he tweeted a video of the armless archer's outing in the Paralympics. He tweeted, "These Paralympians are truly incredible. Wow."

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Former Minister of Climate and the Environment of Norway, Erik Solheim, was stunned by Sheetal Devi's abilities and deemed her as a poetry in motion.

“This is beyond possible! Sheetal Devi is poetry in motion. Just 17 years old. Born without arms. A true hero. Congrats India,” Solheim tweeted.

Sheetal Devi had left Barcelona defender Jules Kounde speechless with her special shooting technique and hitting a bullseye. The French Footballer shared a video of the para-archer hitting a bullseye at the Paralympics.

Sheetal may have missed out on a medal but she won hearts at Paralympics

Even though Sheetal was eliminated in the Women's Individual Compound Open event's pre-quarterfinals, she will be competing in the Mixed events and chasing the coveted medal.  

Sheetal, who draws the arrow with her toes, endured a blip in the second end where she shot the 7-point red ring to go down to Tokyo silver medalist Mariana Zuniga of Chile 137-138 in the pre-quarters.

All eyes were on Asian Para Games double gold medalist Sheetal, who also had bettered the previous world record of 698 shooting 703, to get a bye into the last-16 round.

Sheetal started out on a positive note as she hit two X dropped one point to take the opening set 29-28.

But her 7-point in the second arrow gave the Chilean seasoned archer the much-needed opening as she won the second end 27-26 to make it level (55-all).

It was a neck-and-neck affair for the duo in the next eight arrows, before Mariana edged out Sheetal in the final arrow by shooting a 9 as the Paralympics debutant Sheetal slipped to the 8-ring to lose by one-point.

On a day second seed Sheetal suffered an early elimination, ninth seed Sarita put up a dominated from the start to down Italy's Eleonora Sarti 141-135 in a one-sided affair in her pre-quarters.

(with PTI inputs)