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With her heroics at Chateauroux’s shooting range, however, Bhaker has already cemented herself among India’s all-time sporting greats. read more
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India's Manu Bhaker competes in the 10m air pistol mixed team bronze medal match at the 2024 Paris Olympics. AP
Manu Bhaker’s golden run in the 2024 Paris Olympics continued on Friday as she qualified for the final of the women’s 25m pistol final after winning two bronze medals earlier in the week.
Bhaker entered the 25m pistol final after finishing second in the qualifying round with a score of 590, finishing behind Hungary’s Veronika Major. Esha Singh was the other Indian competing in the qualification round, but she bowed out after finishing 18th.
The 22-year-old shooter from Jhajjar now stands the chance of winning an unprecedented third medal in the Paris Olympics after winning two bronze medals in a span of two days.
Bhaker had won women’s 10m air pistol bronze on Sunday, ending India’s 12-year drought in shooting at the Olympics. Two days later, she would win the 10m air pistol mixed team bronze medal with Sarabjot Singh on Tuesday, the Indian pair defeating South Korea’s Lee Wonoho and Oh Yeh Jin 16-10.
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Both Bhaker and Sarabjot have redeemed themselves; Sarabjot made up for the disappointment of finishing ninth in the men’s individual qualifying round, failing to qualify for the finals as a result.
Bhaker, on the other hand, bounced back in style in Paris after her heartbreak in Tokyo 2020. She had suffered a pistol malfunction in the 10m air pistol individual qualifying round, as a result of which she finished seventh and failed to reach the final round. Bhaker had failed to reach the finals of the team events as well.
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With her heroics at Chateauroux’s shooting range, however, Bhaker has already cemented herself among India’s all-time sporting greats.
With Bhaker having won two medals already and possibly winning a third in the women’s 25m pistol event on Friday, 2 August, we take a look at all the records broken and feats achieved by the 22-year-old in the Paris Olympics so far:
— Bhaker became the first Indian woman to win an Olympic medal in shooting by winning the 10m air pistol individual bronze on Sunday.
— By winning the mixed team bronze in the same event, Bhaker became the first Indian athlete post-Independence to win two medals in the same edition of the Olympics. She’s only the second Indian to do so after Norman Pritchard (200m sprint and 200m hurdles) in the 1900 Games in Paris.
— Bhaker and Sarabjot won India’s sixth Olympic medal in shooting, and the first ever in a team event.
— Bhaker became the fourth Indian athlete to win multiple medals in the Olympics after Pritchard (athletics), Sushil Kumar (wrestling) and PV Sindhu.
— Bhaker becomes first Indian woman to win two medals at a single Olympics edition. Sindhu had won silver in Rio 2016 and bronze in Tokyo 2020.
— On Friday, Bhaker became the first Indian to qualify for the final of three events in the Olympics.
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