matt stutzman ‘Armless Archer' takes gold at Paris Paralympics

Paris it was a historical first as us parah archery icon Matt stutsman and Mexican Victor Sardina viveros went Arrow to arrow in Paris it marked the first time that two armless archers competed head-to-head at a par Olympic Games stutsman jumped out to a quick start nailing five consecutive bulls eyes in comfortably won his round of 16 elimination match 140 to to 136 both per archers overcame tricky rainy conditions at the historic and balids venue on Friday early evening the future of the sport with armless archers is going to go well above and beyond what I started and for me that's my gold medal stutsman said after the victory no one imagined armless people competing with armed people in archery so what happened today was amazing I knew it was historic moment and of course I wanted to be on the winning end of it he added stutsman notes that he and Sardina viveros are two of four armless archers competing in the French Capital Victor is going to be the future of the sport of course I had to remind him that I am better than him right now dudman said with a laugh sardin viveros 29 is at his first par Olympics having only taken up the sport of par archery in 2022 stutsman envisions that there could be as many as seven armless archers represented at the next par Olympic Games in Los Angeles in 2028

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