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{{Short description|Indian para archer}}
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{{Use Indian English|date=April 2026}}

'''Payal Nag''' (born 2008) is an Indian para archer from [[Odisha]]. She is a quadruple amputee.<ref name="rediff">{{Cite web |title=Teenage Archer Payal Nag Clinches Gold, India Dominates World Archery Para Series |url=https://www.rediff.com/sports/report/payal-nag-dethrones-sheetal-in-para-archery/20260404.htm |access-date=8 April 2026 |website=Rediff |language=en}}</ref>

== Early life ==
Nag is from Balangir, Odisha.<ref name="rediff"/> Her father is a daily wage mason.<ref name="indiatoday"/> In Class 3, she lost all her four limbs in an electrocution accident at the age of eight.<ref>{{Cite web |date=4 April 2026 |title=Payal Nag, who saw Sheetal Devi’s video and started Para Archery, defeats her idol for gold medal |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/sports/sport-others/payal-nag-sheetal-devi-idol-para-archery-gold-medal-10619360/ |access-date=8 April 2026 |website=The Indian Express |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Menon |first=Anirudh |date=5 April 2026 |title=Meet Payal Nag: World's first limbless archer who beat Sheetal Devi to World Archery Para Series gold |url=https://www.espn.in/olympics/story/_/id/48399809/meet-payal-nag-world-first-limbless-archer-beat-sheetal-devi-world-archery-para-series-gold |access-date=8 April 2026 |website=ESPN |language=en}}</ref> Four years after the accident, she was admitted to an orphanage, Parvatigiri Balniketan, in [[Balangir]], with the help of the district collector.<ref name="telanganatoday">{{Cite web |date=23 March 2025 |title=Defying all odds to script success: Meet Payal Nag, an archer without hands and feet |url=https://telanganatoday.com/defying-all-odds-to-script-success-meet-payal-nag-an-archer-without-hands-and-feet |access-date=8 April 2026 |website=Telangana Today |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=23 March 2025 |title=Meet Payal Nag, para-archery star in the making and among standout performers at Khelo India Para Games |url=https://www.firstpost.com/sports/meet-payal-nag-para-archery-star-in-the-making-khelo-india-para-games-2025-13873770.html |access-date=8 April 2026 |website=First Post}}</ref> It was Sheetal Devi's coach Kuldeep Vedwan, who also spotted and trained her at the Maata Vaishno Devi Shrine Archery Academy in Katra.<ref name="rediff"/><ref name="indiatimes">{{Cite news |date=7 April 2026 |title=India's unstoppable daughter: Who is Payal Nag - World’s first quadruple amputee archer |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/130082222.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst |access-date=8 April 2026 |work=The Times of India |issn=0971-8257}}</ref> Her elder sister Varsha Nag, stays at the academy as her caregiver.<ref name="telanganatoday"/>

== Career ==
She won a gold medal beating [[Sheetal Devi]] in the final at the World Archery Para Series in Bangkok on 4 April 2026.<ref name="indiatoday">{{Cite web |date=6 April 2026 |title=Graceful in defeat, Sheetal Devi helps limbless archer Payal Nag on podium: Video |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/sports/other-sports/story/payal-nag-wins-para-archery-gold-sheetal-devi-sportsmanship-bangkok-2892466-2026-04-06 |access-date=8 April 2026 |website=India Today |language=en}}</ref> She beat the World No.1 Devi 139–136 in the Compound event final in only her second international event.<ref>{{Cite web |date=4 April 2026 |title=Quadruple amputee Payal Nag beats Sheetal Devi to clinch gold in World Para Archery Series |url=https://sportstar.thehindu.com/archery/payal-nag-quadruple-amputee-archer-beats-sheetal-devi-world-para-archery-series-2026-bangkok-indian-medallists/article70823056.ece |access-date=8 April 2026 |website=Sportstar |language=en}}</ref> She made her international debut at the [[Dubai]] 2025 Asian Youth Para Games.<ref name="rediff"/><ref>{{Cite web |last=Mamgaain |first=Tushar |date=7 April 2026 |title=Sheetal Devi Helps Limbless Archer Payal Nag After Defeat, Gesture Wins Hearts. Video |url=https://sports.ndtv.com/archery/sheetal-devi-helps-limbless-archer-payal-nag-after-defeat-gesture-wins-hearts-video-11321066 |access-date=8 April 2026 |website=NDTV}}</ref> In December 2025, she beat her idol, Sheetal Devi for the first time at the Para Archery Nationals in [[Jaipur]].<ref name="indiatimes"/><ref name="thelogicalindian">{{Cite web |date=19 December 2025 |title=17-Year-Old Quadruple Amputee Payal Nag Stuns with Double Gold Over Paralympic Star Sheetal Devi - The Logical Indian |url=https://thelogicalindian.com/17-year-old-quadruple-amputee-payal-nag-stuns-with-double-gold-over-paralympic-star-sheetal-devi/ |access-date=8 April 2026 |language=en-US}}</ref> In her first major event in March 2025, she won a Compound Open silver at the [[Khelo India Para Games]] in Delhi.<ref name="thelogicalindian"/>

== References ==
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[[Category:2008 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Indian female archers]]
[[Category:Sportswomen from Odisha]]
[[Category:People without hands]]
[[Category:People from Balangir district]]
[[Category:21st-century Indian sportswomen]]

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