FULL NAME: Payal Nag
GENDER: Female
DATE OF BIRTH: 17 or 18 years by 2026 (Date not known)
PARENTS: Father (Bijay Nag), Mother (Janata Nag)
HOME ADDRESS: Jamunabahal, Muribahal, Balangir, Odisha, India
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION: Studied at Gudiahat High School and Sadeipali Pallishree High School, Balangir.
PROFESSION: Not known
TRAINING PLACE: Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Archery Academy in Katra, Jammu & Kashmir
RECEIVED COACHING FROM: Kuldeep Vedwan & Abhilasha Chaudhary
IDOL: Sheetal Devi (Paralympc medalist)
TEAMS/UNITS REPRESENTED: Odisha State Sub-junior Girls, Senior Women; India Youth & Senior Women.

MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS:

NATIONAL:
*     Won 1 Silver and 1 Bronze medal at the 7th National Para Archery Championship, held in Patiala, Punjab, in 2026.
*     Won the women compound open Silver medal in para-archery competition of the 2nd Khelo India Para Games at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, New Delhi on 23 March 2025.
*     Won 2 Gold medals at the 6th National Para Archery Championship, held in Jaipur, Rajasthan on 11-12 January 2025. Defeated 2024 Paris Paralympics medalist and her idol Sheetal Devi in Compound Round.

INTERNATIONAL:
*     Won 2 Gold medals (both womens compound individual and team events) at the World Archery Para Series, held in Bangkok, Thailand from 30 March-4 April 2026. Beat idol and Paralympic medallist Sheetal Devi in the individual final 139-136.
*     Won the Bronze medal in the U-21 women compound team event at the Asian Youth Para Games, held in Dubai from 7-14 December 2025.

OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
*     She is the only archer of the world without any hand or leg.
*     Payal is also a talented artist and draws with her mouth.
*     As an artist, she won prizes at block and district level competitions.
*     Impressed with her art, the State Government provided her with high-end robotic limbs.
*     She underwent fitment process at the Advance Rehabilitation Centre in Bhubaneswar.
*     Her parents are migrants labourers.
*     Payal lost all her four limbs at the age of eight due to electocution, which occured in April 2015 when she stepped on a live wire while playing.
*     Due to the mishap, which occured in Raipur, Chhattisgarh, doctors had to ampute both her legs and hands.
*     At the time of the accident, the five-member family of Payal was working at a brick kiln in Raipur.
*     She stayed at childcare institution, Parbatigiri Balniketen in Balangir for her education and nutrition from 2019 to 2022.
*     After knowing her talent in art, archery coach Vedwan took Payal to Katra in 2022 and trained her as a para archer at Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Archery Academy.
*     Elder sister Barsha plays a major supporting role in the daily life of Payal.

PROFILE FIRST UPLOADED: 5 March 2025
PROFILE LAST UPDATED: 7 April 2026