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Manu Bhaker Wins Olympic Bronze
- 29 Jul 2024
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Recently, Manu Bhaker won a bronze medal in the women’s 10m air pistol event at the Paris 2024 Olympics.
The Olympic Victory:
- This is the first medal for India at the Paris 2024 Olympics and the first Olympic medal in shooting for India since the London 2012 Games.
- Manu, who hails from Jhajjar, Haryana, is the first Indian female shooter to win an Olympic medal.
- She also became the first female shooter to reach an Olympic final in an individual event in the last 20 years.
- Manu Bhaker is the fifth Indian shooter to win an Olympic medal, following Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore (2004 Athens), Abhinav Bindra (2008 Beijing), Vijay Kumar (2012 London), and Gagan Narang (2012 London).
Other Achievements of Manu:
- At the National Shooting Championships 2017, she won 9 gold medals and set a record in the 10m Air Pistol final.
- In 2018, she became a teenage sensation with a gold medal at the Commonwealth Games and won the gold medal in the Women's 10m Air Pistol at the ISSF World Cup in Guadalajara, Mexico.
- Manu has also won medals at Asian Games (2022), World Championship, Baku (2023), Asian Shooting Championship, Changwon (2023), World Cup, Bhopal (2023), World Championship, Cairo (2022), World University Games, Chengdu (2021) sports events.
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