Para-archer Sheetal Devi started off India’s campaign at the Paris 2024 Paralympics on the best possible note by surpassing the existing world record qualifying score of 698 in the qualification round of the women’s individual compound archery event. Sheetal Devi shot 703 points out of possible 720, leaving behind the previous world record score of 698. Unfortunately, Sheetal will not have the world record against her name since Turkey’s Oznur Girdi Cure shot 704 points, to take the record by one more point than the Indian. Sheetal ended second in overall ranking round and will compete in the round of 16 at Paris. However, what’s remarkable about Sheetal is that she’s a rare archer in the Paralympics who competes in the discipline without arms. In fact, there are just three armless archers at Paris Paralympics – Matt Stutzman, Piotr Van Montagu and Sheetal, with the Indian the solitary female archer. The American Stutzman is one of the featured stars in the Netflix documentary The Rising Phoenix and is considered to be the pioneer of this …