Nitesh Kumar stands on the brink of Paralympic glory today, but his path to this moment was fraught with hardship and uncertainty. Once confined to a bed with diminishing hopes and a broken spirit, Nitesh's life took a drastic turn following a train accident in Visakhapatnam in 2009, which resulted in the loss of his leg when he was just 15 years old.

But he left everything behind on Monday as he outplayed Great Britain's second-seeded Daniel Bethell to clinch a historic gold medal in the men's singles SL3 category in the ongoing Paris Paralympics 2024.