Harvinder Singh has scripted history by becoming the first-ever Indian archer to win a Paralymic gold medal. He achieved the glory in the men’s individual recurve open event. Hailing from Ajitgarh village in Haryana’s Kaithal, he was born in 1992.
His father, Paramjeet Singh is a farmer. When Harvinder was 18-months-old, his father took him to a local clinic for treating an illness, while the doctor gave him the wrong injection, which resulted in the impairment in his left leg.
Year later expressing his happiness on his son’s big win, Paramjeet said, “To see him win his second Paralympic medal and this time a gold helps us erase memories of that day in 1992.”
The impairment kept him mostly indoor and bound to the textbooks. It was recently he completed his doctorate in labour reforms. “When he grew up, his only interest was getting good marks in studies. Even the reason he showed interest in archery was because the score (tens) fascinated him,” his father shared in a recent interview.
