SHOOTER CHAN SETS SIGHTS ON TOP-8 SPOT

Team Singapore's athletes kick off their campaign at the Paralympic Games in Paris on Aug 28, when the 10-member contingent aim to deliver brilliant and inspiring moments on para sports' biggest stage. In the second of ST's Paralympic series, shooter Daniel Chan talks about the best moment in his career to date.

- Lin Tianbao

The Hangzhou Asian Para Games in 2023 were special for Daniel Chan, for it was not only where the Singapore shooter made his major Games debut, but also where he earned his maiden Paralympics outing.

As he prepares to compete in the P1 10m air pistol SH1 in Paris, the 36-year-old says the Asiad has been the best moment of his career to date.

He posted a score of 565 in the qualification round of the P1 10m air pistol SHI, before finishing fifth in the final to book his ticket to Paris.

Chan told The Straits Times: "It was Hangzhou... just being able to get that quota place. That result was also my personal best."

Reaching the pinnacle of para sport has always been on his mind, after he started shooting at 29.

Chan has Erb's palsy in his left arm a condition resulting from a traumatic birth delivery which damaged the nerves in his arm and shoulder.

In an earlier interview, he told ST that he was inspired by shooter Hoang Xuan Vinh, then 42, who won Vietnam's first-ever gold at the Rio Olympics in 2016.