Jason Tabansky achieved his given career breakthrough, whereby he won the Paris 2024 Paralympics gold. World Archery Championship: The 41-year-old archer of the USA won over China’s Han Guifei in the W1 men’s final 134-131.
And here he was, not even qualified for the games, only nine weeks before the games would begin. Australia’s Chris Davis withdrew and made his door wide open to compete in Paris and also for the Paralympics debut.
The rest is a fairy tale, then one begins to wonder.
“It is something that I had practiced a hundred times before—raising my arm to load the arrow, hooking my release, then drawing back my bow and aiming and then I screamed,” he said before the gold medal match.
Jason could endure and fired a 10 to win the game and get the long-awaited gold.
In reaching the final, he had to go down and out some up-and-comers including the defending champion David Drahoninsky.
“I rehearsed at home four matches a day.” That is all I carried on rehearsing, Tabansky said.
“What I did was just shoot against my wife. So long as I was doing better than her and so I was doing better in that certain point range, then I knew I was going to be alright so I just kept on doing it for about three weeks.