Paris Paralympics 2024 Day 1 Live Updates: Archery - Recurve Also starting their campaigns will be Harvinder Singh in men's recurve individual, Shyam Sundar Swami in men's compound individual and Pooja in women's recurve open individual. Paris Paralympics 2024 Day 1 Live Updates: Men's archery In the men's compound archery, India's Rakesh Kumar, who had narrowly missed a medal in the Tokyo Paralympic Games, is hoping to bag his maiden medal in Paris and will also start his campaign in the men's individual compound open ranking round. Rakesh has won multiple medals in the Fazza Para Archery World Ranking event and is a gold medallist in the Mixed Team section in the World Para Archery Championship 2023 and also bagged a gold and two silver medals in the Asian Para Games in Hangzhou.
Paris Paralympics 2024 Day 1 Live Updates: The wonder archer Sheetal, the wonder archer who shoots arrows in bullseye with ease using her legs and mouth, won two gold and one silver medal in the Asian Para Games in Hangzhou last year. The archer from Kishtwar from Jammu and Kashmir will be hoping to achieve a top seeding in the Open Ranking round in women's compound archery. Paris Paralympics 2024 Day 1 Live Updates: Archer Sheetal Devi, taekwondo star Aruna Tanwar to launch India's campaign Determined to return with their best-ever haul in the Paralympic Games, India's biggest-ever contingent for the mega event will launch a historical campaign in French Capital on Thursday with action starting in badminton, archery and table tennis.
India's archers, shuttlers and paddlers will get into action on the opening day of competition, getting through the preliminary rounds. The 16-year-old para-archer Sheetal Devi will be among the first Indian participants to take the field for the Women's Individual Compound Open Ranking Round along with compatriot Sarita. Paris Paralympics 2024 Day 1 Live Updates: Here's what French president Emmanuel Macron said "Dear athletes, welcome to the country of love and revolution.
Rest assured, tonight, no Storming of the Bastille, no guillotine, because tonight the most beautiful revolution starts -- the paralympic revolution," Paris 2024 president Tony Estanguet said in his speech. "It's a sweet revolution that will change all of us deeply." Paris Paralympics 2024 Day 1 Live Updates: Joyful ceremony kickstarts Paris 2024 Paralympics French president Emmanuel Macron declared the Paralympic Games open on Wednesday after a glorious ceremony in which competitors were celebrated by joyful volunteers and spectators on a sweet summer night.
The event on the Champs Elysees and the Place de la Concorde was the first Paralympics curtain-raiser to be held outside a stadium. Security was tight, with some 15,000 law enforcement officers on site, but there was a light summer feeling to the evening as the sun slowly set on the French capital. Hello and welcome to the Live coverage of Day 1 of the Paris Paralympics Top Stories Right Now.
