Manu Bhaker Wins Bronze Medal At 2024 Olympics: Pistol shooter Manu Bhaker won India’s first medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics as she clinched a bronze in the Women’s 10m Air Pistol shooting event on Day Two of the Paris Games.
Bhaker, who has been prolific on the world stage for the past few years came into these Olympics as one of the favorites to win a medal for India, which is exactly what she did with a bronze medal win.
After finishing third in the qualifying round yesterday, the 22-year-old came into the final with all guns blazing.
How the final of the 10m Air Pistol shooting works is that all eight finalists shoot two rounds of five shots each. From that point, one participant is eliminated after every two shots until the winner is decided.
Manu Bhaker Wins Bronze Medal At 2024 Olympics
In the first round, South Korea’s 19-year-old Oh Ye Jin took a lead in the first round itself which she did not consolidate throughout. At this point, Bhaker was second. She fell to third after the second round, with another South Korean Kim Ye Ji climbing to second.
The top three athletes jostled for the top spot from this point as Manu stayed in the medal positions.
Hungarian Veronica Major, who topped the field in the qualification round, was the first one to be eliminated. Then came the elimination of Turkiye’s Sevval Tehran. Bronze medallist at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics Jiang Ranxin finished sixth as she was eliminated after the third round.
After China’s Li Xue and Vietnam’s Trinh Thu Vinh were eliminated in successive rounds, Manu Bhaker had confirmed India’s first medal at the Paris Olympics.
In the second last elimination round, Bhaker was 0.6 points behind Kim Ye Ji, a difference she overcame as she hit a 10.1 compared to the Korean’s 9.4.
With a silver medal on the line, the Indian shooter hit a superb 10.3 but was countered by a 10.5 and was thus eliminated.
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Despite losing out on a silver, or maybe even a gold, Bhaker created history by becoming not only the first Indian to win a medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics but also the first female shooter to win an Olympic medal.
To finish off the round, 19-year-old Oh Ye Jin defeated her fellow South Korean shooter to take home the gold medal.
But the 2024 Olympics are not finished for Manu Bhaker as she will participate in the mixed 10m Air Pistol event and her bread-and-butter Women’s 25m Air Pistol event, the qualification for which will take place on July 19 and August 2 respectively.
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