New Delhi, July 24 (Ians) With three medals including their first-ever gold medal and six quota places for the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, the Indian para-archers have reached new heights at the recently concluded 2023 World Archery Para Championships in Pilsen, Czech Republic.
India’s medal tally at Pilsen included one gold, one silver and one bronze with Sarita and Rakesh Kumar winning their first-ever gold medal after clinching the top spot on the podium in the compound mixed team open event.
Sarita also won bronze in the compound women’s team event with Jyoti while armless archer Sheetal Devi, only 16, accounted for India’s only individual medal in Pilsen – a silver in women’s compound.
This was the country’s best-ever result at the Para archery World Championships with India’s previous-best tally being two silver medals in Dubai last year. India fielded a 13-member team at the Pilsen 2023 World Archery Para Championships.
India’s medal tally at Pilsen included one gold, one silver and one bronze with Sarita and Rakesh Kumar winning their first-ever gold medal after clinching the top spot on the podium in the compound mixed team open event.
Sarita also won bronze in the compound women’s team event with Jyoti while armless archer Sheetal Devi, only 16, accounted for India’s only individual medal in Pilsen – a silver in women’s compound.
This was the country’s best-ever result at the Para archery World Championships with India’s previous-best tally being two silver medals in Dubai last year. India fielded a 13-member team at the Pilsen 2023 World Archery Para Championships.
- 7/24/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
The 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo, Japan, are almost here, bringing international sport back into the spotlight just a few short weeks after the Tokyo Olympics ended. Over 4,000 athletes will descend upon the Japanese capital for 12 days of sport with Paralympians old and new ready to compete on a global stage.
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For the uninitiated, like the Olympics, all para athletes must qualify at a trials event or through another measured standard determined by the International Paralympic Committee. Beyond that, each sport has classifications that signify...
Defining Moments of the Tokyo Olympics
For the uninitiated, like the Olympics, all para athletes must qualify at a trials event or through another measured standard determined by the International Paralympic Committee. Beyond that, each sport has classifications that signify...
- 8/23/2021
- by Dan Meyer
- Rollingstone.com
A celebration of the Paralympics movement and its heroes, Netflix’s “Rising Phoenix,” which debuts Aug. 26, gives sports fans a jolt of greatness, inspiration, history and drop-dead gorgeous photography.
Directors Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui (“McQueen”) zero in on what makes athletes special: Their work ethic and determination. Some of the featured athletes include Matt Stutzman, an archery champion who was born without arms and uses his feet to shoot; Tatyana McFadden, a wheelchair racer who was told she couldn’t compete in high school; or Ellie Cole, a swimmer with one leg who continues to break records.
Besides McFadden, Cole and Stutzman, the film also features fencer Bebe Vio, sprinter Jonnie Peacock, runner Jean-Baptiste Alaize, powerlifter Cui Zhe, wheelchair rugby player Ryley Batt and South African track athlete Ntando Mahlangu.
The tenets of determination, positivity and motivation are threaded through the doc.
“People shy away from stories that encompass disabilities and suffering,...
Directors Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui (“McQueen”) zero in on what makes athletes special: Their work ethic and determination. Some of the featured athletes include Matt Stutzman, an archery champion who was born without arms and uses his feet to shoot; Tatyana McFadden, a wheelchair racer who was told she couldn’t compete in high school; or Ellie Cole, a swimmer with one leg who continues to break records.
Besides McFadden, Cole and Stutzman, the film also features fencer Bebe Vio, sprinter Jonnie Peacock, runner Jean-Baptiste Alaize, powerlifter Cui Zhe, wheelchair rugby player Ryley Batt and South African track athlete Ntando Mahlangu.
The tenets of determination, positivity and motivation are threaded through the doc.
“People shy away from stories that encompass disabilities and suffering,...
- 8/26/2020
- by Carole Horst
- Variety Film + TV
Netflix © 2020
Premiering this Wednesday, August 26, is the NetFlix documentary Rising Phoenix.
Rising Phoenix tells the extraordinary story of the Paralympic Games. From the rubble of World War II to the third biggest sporting event on the planet, the Paralympics sparked a global movement which continues to change the way the world thinks about disability, diversity & human potential.
Athletes featured in the film include Bebe Vio (Italy), Ellie Cole (Australia), Jean-Baptiste Alaize (France), Matt Stutzman (USA), Jonnie Peacock (UK), Cui Zhe (China), Ryley Batt (Australia), Ntando Mahlangu (South Africa) and Tatyana McFadden (US).
Rising Phoenix is from filmmakers of McQueen Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui.
Additional featured interviews include The Duke of Sussex, Founder of The Invictus Games; Sir Philip Craven, MBE Former President of the International Paralympics Committee (Ipc); Andrew Parsons President of the Ipc.
Watch Rising Phoenix, only on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/81122408
A caucasian woman is suspended underwater,...
Premiering this Wednesday, August 26, is the NetFlix documentary Rising Phoenix.
Rising Phoenix tells the extraordinary story of the Paralympic Games. From the rubble of World War II to the third biggest sporting event on the planet, the Paralympics sparked a global movement which continues to change the way the world thinks about disability, diversity & human potential.
Athletes featured in the film include Bebe Vio (Italy), Ellie Cole (Australia), Jean-Baptiste Alaize (France), Matt Stutzman (USA), Jonnie Peacock (UK), Cui Zhe (China), Ryley Batt (Australia), Ntando Mahlangu (South Africa) and Tatyana McFadden (US).
Rising Phoenix is from filmmakers of McQueen Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui.
Additional featured interviews include The Duke of Sussex, Founder of The Invictus Games; Sir Philip Craven, MBE Former President of the International Paralympics Committee (Ipc); Andrew Parsons President of the Ipc.
Watch Rising Phoenix, only on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/81122408
A caucasian woman is suspended underwater,...
- 8/24/2020
- by Michelle Hannett
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Netflix has launched a new trailer for its upcoming documentary on the Paralympic Games ‘Rising Phoenix’.
The documentary tells the extraordinary story of the Paralympic Games. From the rubble of World War II to the third biggest sporting event on the planet, the Paralympics sparked a global movement which continues to change the way the world thinks about disability, diversity & human potential.
Athletes featured in the film include Bebe Vio (Italy), Ellie Cole (Australia), Jean-Baptiste Alaize (France), Matt Stutzman (USA), Jonnie Peacock (UK), Cui Zhe (China), Ryley Batt (Australia), Ntando Mahlangu (South Africa) and Tatyana McFadden (US).
Rising Phoenix is directed by Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui.
Also in trailers – Welcome to the escape room from hell in trailer for ‘No Escape’
The documentary hits Netflix August 26th
The post Netflix launch trailer for documentary ‘Rising Phoenix’ appeared first on HeyUGuys.
The documentary tells the extraordinary story of the Paralympic Games. From the rubble of World War II to the third biggest sporting event on the planet, the Paralympics sparked a global movement which continues to change the way the world thinks about disability, diversity & human potential.
Athletes featured in the film include Bebe Vio (Italy), Ellie Cole (Australia), Jean-Baptiste Alaize (France), Matt Stutzman (USA), Jonnie Peacock (UK), Cui Zhe (China), Ryley Batt (Australia), Ntando Mahlangu (South Africa) and Tatyana McFadden (US).
Rising Phoenix is directed by Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui.
Also in trailers – Welcome to the escape room from hell in trailer for ‘No Escape’
The documentary hits Netflix August 26th
The post Netflix launch trailer for documentary ‘Rising Phoenix’ appeared first on HeyUGuys.
- 8/17/2020
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Matt Stutzman just wanted to put a bit of food on the table for his wife and his three sons. Born without arms, he found himself out of work in 2009 and hardpressed to land a job. "People would tell me, 'If you had prosthetic arms, I'd hire you,' " Stutzman tells People. "I'd tell them, 'Just let me prove I can do this.' But no one wanted to give me a chance." So Stutzman, who had begun to grow depressed that he "wasn't doing his part" to provide for his family, came up with an idea that initially left...
- 9/10/2016
- by By Johnny Dodd, @Johnny_Dodd
- PEOPLE.com
Matt Stutzman just wanted to put a bit of food on the table for his wife and his three sons. Born without arms, he found himself out of work in 2009 and hardpressed to land a job. "People would tell me, 'If you had prosthetic arms, I'd hire you,' " Stutzman tells People. "I'd tell them, 'Just let me prove I can do this.' But no one wanted to give me a chance." So Stutzman, who had begun to grow depressed that he "wasn't doing his part" to provide for his family, came up with an idea that initially left...
- 9/10/2016
- by By Johnny Dodd, @Johnny_Dodd
- PEOPLE.com
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