Paris, 28 July: In a historic achievement, Manu Bhaker has secured a bronze medal in the women’s 10m air pistol event at the Paris 2024 Olympics. This marks India’s first medal at the Paris 2024 Olympics and the first Olympic medal in shooting for India since the London 2012 Olympic Games.
With this achievement, Manu becomes the first Indian female shooter to win a medal at the Olympics, a day after she became the first female shooter to reach an Olympic final in an individual event in the last 20 years.
Manu Bhaker is now the fifth Indian shooter to clinch a medal at the Olympic Games, following Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore (2004 Athens), Abhinav Bindra (2008 Beijing), Vijay Kumar (2012 London), and Gagan Narang (2012 London).
Background:
Manu Bhaker is an Indian Olympian who competes in shooting. Born in Jhajjar, Haryana, a state known for its boxers and wrestlers, Manu Bhaker initially took to sports like tennis, skating, and boxing in school. She also participated in a form of martial arts called ‘thang ta,’ winning medals at the national level. At just 14 years old, shortly after the 2016 Rio Olympics, she impulsively decided to try her hand at shooting and loved it.
At the 2017 National Shooting Championships, Manu Bhaker stunned Olympian and former world No. 1 Heena Sidhu by winning 9 gold medals. Manu shot a record score of 242.3 to surpass Sidhu’s mark and win the 10m Air Pistol final. The year 2018 was a breakthrough for Bhaker as a shooter, as she became a teenage sensation by winning a gold medal at the Commonwealth Games at just 16 years old.
In the 2018 International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup held in Guadalajara, Mexico, Bhaker won the gold medal in the Women’s 10-metre air pistol, defeating Mexico’s Alejandra Zavala, a two-time champion.
Manu Bhaker also secured an Olympic quota place with a fourth-place finish at the 2019 Munich ISSF World Cup. However, her debut at the Games did not go as planned. Shortly after Tokyo 2020, Manu Bhaker became the junior world champion in the women’s 10m air pistol at Lima. She also won the women’s 25m pistol silver at the 2022 Cairo World Championships and a gold in the same event at the 2023 Asian Games in Hangzhou.
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