New Delhi [India], January 25 (ANI): On the eve of the Republic Day, India’s para-archer Harvinder Singh is among the many recipients of the Padma Awards 2025. The Paris Paralympics gold medallist is being awarded with Padma Shri.
The Padma awards, among the many nation’s highest civilian honours, are conferred in three classes – and Padma Shri, Padma Bhushan and Padma Vibhushan.
The awards are given in varied disciplines, equivalent to artwork, social work, public affairs, science and engineering, commerce and trade, drugs, and literature amongst others.
The Padma Shri award is the fourth-highest civilian award of the Republic of India after the Bharat Ratna, Padma Vibhushan, and the Padma Bhushan.
Harvinder has tasted success prior to now yr together with his constant performances. He obtained his fingers on India’s first-ever gold medal in para-archery on the Paris 2024 Paralympics.
It was a one-sided affair within the males’s particular person recurve open occasion. Harvinder ousted Poland’s Lukasz Ciszek with a straight-set win, 6-0, within the gold medal match.
His triumph in Paris marked a medal in two successive Paralympics, having gained a bronze medal within the recurve para-archery on the Tokyo Paralympics 2020. His triumph in Tokyo was India’s first medal in archery within the Paralympics.
Harvinder had the chance so as to add one other medal to his tally however landed brief within the decisive conflict. Harvinder and Pooja fell brief within the bronze medal tie in opposition to Slovenia’s Ziva Lavrinc and Dejan Fabcic within the combined crew recurve open on the Paris Paralympics. Despite beginning brightly, they finally succumbed to a 4-6 defeat within the bronze medal match.
Following his historic success, Harvinder together with Preeti Pal have been named the flag bearers for India on the closing ceremony of the Paris Paralympics 2024.
Recently, through the National Para Archery Championship, which was held in Jaipur, Harvinder gained 4 gold medals.
Harvinder, who hails from Kaithal, Haryana confronted hardship when he was simply over a yr previous. He had contracted dengue and required injections for therapy. The uncomfortable side effects of these injections led to the lack of operate in his legs. (ANI)