On Tuesday Manu Bhaker and Sarabjot Singh won India’s second medal at the Paris Olympics when they edged South Korea in the bronze medal showdown of 10m air pistol mixed team event.
Bhaker has now won two medals at the Paris Games – she had earlier won the individual medal in the same discipline. Notably, Bhaker is the fourth Indian after Norman Pritchard (athletics), Sushil Kumar (wrestling) and PV Sindhu (badminton) to win multiple medals for India at a Summer Games.
Bhaker and Sarabjot had qualified for the 10m air pistol mixed team bronze medal match by finishing third in the qualification with a score of 580.
Earlier, Bhaker had won bronze in the women’s individual 10M air pistol event. Manu-Sarabjot beat South Korea’s Lee Wonho and Oh Ye Jin 16-10 in the bronze medal play-off match. With this medal, India’s medal tally increases to two at the Paris Olympics. Both Bhaker and Sarabjot shot consistently with regular 10s in the series against the Koreans.
Manu is the first athlete from the Indian contingent after independence to get two medals in a single edition of the Paris Olympics. Earlier in the 1900 Olympics, Norman Pritchard won two medals while representing India, both silver in the 200 m and 200 m hurdles. Manu-Sarabjot’s shooting mixed team medal is India’s first-ever shooting team medal in Olympic history.
Also, Bhaker joins an elite group of athletes to have multiple individual medals at the Olympics: PV Sindhu (badminton silver at Rio 2016 and bronze medal at Tokyo 2020) and Sushil Kumar (wrestling bronze at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and silver medal at the 2012 London Olympics).
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