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Shooter Manu Bhaker is India’s new sports icon
With teammate Sarabjot Singh, Bhaker bagged a bronze medal in the 10 m Air Pistol Mixed team event
Manu Bhaker / Image- Prabhjot Singh
Manu Bhaker made headlines for the second time in Paris on July 30 by adding another medal to India’s tally. The latest bronze medal came after just days after her first medal of the same color at the Olympic Games.
With teammate Sarabjot Singh, Bhaker bagged a bronze medal in the 10 m Air Pistol Mixed team event. The duo bested South Korea by 16-10 win to double India’s medal count.
This made the Bhaker at just 22 years of age the first Indian woman to win two medals at a single Olympics edition and the first Indian born after the country’s independence to do so. The Jhajjar, Harayana-native will be soon be seen competing in her favorite event, the 25 m Air Pistol (individual), where she hopes to make a hat-trick of Olympic medals in her second Olympic outing.
Her teammate, Sarabjot Singh, in the individual round missed making the medal round. He had finished ninth with a score of 577. His fellow shooter, Arjun Cheema, after a good start, suffered a lapse off concentration to finish 18th with a score of 574.
Shooting is one sport in which India hopes to reap a rich harvest of medals. Yesterday, Arjun Babuta finished fourth and missed the bronze medal by a whisker aggregating 208.4.
It was a big heartbreak for him as he came so close and yet remained far away from his dream Olympic medal. His last two rounds of 10.1 and 9.5 proved costly for him while ultimate bronze medallist Miran Maricic of Croatia had 10.7 and 9.9 in his last two shoots.
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