New Delhi, Mar 8 (PTI) Para shooter Kiranjeet Singh was just going about his routine of transporting harvesting equipment from one farm to another in his truck in Auckland when tragedy struck.

A heavy component fell on his neck, leaving him paralysed.

After being bed-ridden for more than two years, he underwent multiple surgeries, which restored partial mobility in his arms but left him incapacitated below the waist.

Persuaded by friends to take up a sport to “kill boredom” and “avoid going into depression”, Kiranjeet settled on shooting sport after dabbling briefly in wheelchair table tennis.

The 36-year-old 10m air rifle marksman (SH2 category) of Indian descent now has the sole aim of winning a medal at the ongoing Para Shooting World Cup at the Karni Singh Ranges here and secure a quota place for the 2024 Paris Paralympics.

“I migrated to New Zealand in 2010, a year after my marriage. I was 22 or 23 then. In 2016, I got seriously injured when a heavy component of the harvesting machine I was unloading from my truck fell off. That 100kg component severely damaged my C4-C5 vertebrae,” Kiranjeet told

Source: PTI News