Harvinder Singh is an Indian para-archery athlete who achieved a historic feat by winning a bronze medal at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, becoming the first Indian to win an archery medal at the Paralympics.
Wiki/Biography
Harvinder Singh Dhanju was born in 1990 (31 years old; as of 2021) in Guhla Cheeka village, Ketal, Haryana. Born into a middle-class farmer family in Haryana, he received his primary education at Guhla Cheeka, a small village near Kaital. He studied in a village school until grade 10 and then went to the city of Ketal to continue his studies. After completing his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Panjab University, Patiala, Harvind started pursuing PhD (economics) at the same university.
appearance
Height (approximately): 5′ 9″
Hair color: black
Eye color: black
family
Parents and siblings
Harvinder Singh’s father Paramjeet Singh was a farmer. His mother’s name was late Harbhajan Kaur. Harvind has an elder brother with whom he lives in Kaital, Haryana.
Profession
After winning multiple medals at various state and national level events, the World Para Archery Championships in Beijing in 2017 gave him his first opportunity to represent India at an international competition; he was ranked seventh overall. Harvinder Singh became the first Indian athlete to win a gold medal in a major Para Games when he won the men’s open individual recurve event at the Asian Para Games 2018. Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated him on his achievement in a tweet.
Harvinder Singh relied on his superb archery skills and unremitting efforts to win the gold medal for the Indian team in the men’s individual recurve open event at the Asian Para Games 2018. Congratulations Harvind! We are proud of you! pic.twitter.com/45AJmLLMRu6
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) October 16, 2018
After participating in the 2019 World Archery Para Championships in the Netherlands, he qualified for the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics. On September 3, 2021, Harvind won India’s first Paralympic archery medal after losing 6-4 to world number 10 Kevin Mather of the United States in the semi-finals.
medal
- 2016: Bronze medal at National Para Archery Championship in Rohtak
- 2018: Won gold medal at the 2018 Asian Para Games in Indonesia
- 2019: Bronze medal at the Asian Para Archery Championships in Thailand
- 2021: Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games Bronze Medal
Facts/Trivia
- When he was one year old, doctors gave him an injection after he contracted dengue fever, which left his legs unable to function properly as a side effect of the injection.
- He became interested in learning archery after watching the archery competition at the 2012 London Olympics.
- During his graduation from Punjab University, Patiala, he started attending field training courses.
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Source: HIS Education