How Manu Bhaker missed out on medal in women's pistol final, what is a shoot-off?

Manu Bhaker narrowly missed out in clinching her third medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics, the latest one in the 25m pistol shooting event, on August 3.

The 22-year-old Bhaker was chasing history with an unprecedented hat-trick of medals in a single edition of the Games.

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Jiin Yang of South Korea took the gold medal, Camille Jedrzejewski of France won silver while Hungary’s Veronika Major bagged the bronze with third place.

Bhaker’s previous medals at Paris 2024 were bronze each in the 10m air pistol individual and mixed team events (alongside Sarabjot Singh).

How Manu Bhaker missed out on the medal?

Bhaker started poorly by shooting two points in the first series and remained stellar, bar one series, for the rest of the final.

Manu followed the poor start with scores of 4, 4, 3, 5, 4 and 4 to not just remain alive in the competition but propel herself to top-two at one stage.

From a score of 26 points, and second spot, Bhaker dropped to a tied-third after the next series where she hit two of five targets.

At 28-points all, she and Hungary’s Major went into a shoot-off to decide who gets assured of a medal. As per the rules, the two tied shooters would take attempts until only person remained in contention.

In the eighth and decisive series, Bhaker made three accurate shots while Major was one better with four.

In the process, Bhaker missed out on moving ahead and in assuring herself, and India, of another medal.

“I got nervous about it. I was trying my best to keep calm and tried to do my best but not enough,” she said on the shoot-off.