Updated July 30, 2024, 14:10 IST
The 22-year-old Manu Bhakar became the first Indian to win two medals in one Olympic sport when he partnered Sarabhyot Singh to win a bronze medal in the 10m air pistol mixed team event at Paris 2024. Bhakar also bagged her first medal at Paris 2024 when she won a bronze medal in the women’s 10m air pistol singles event.
Manu Bhakar to create history at the 2024 Paris Olympics and become the first Indian athlete to compete in the Olympics in 124 years
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Manu Bhakar and Sarabjot Singh have won bronze medals at the 2024 Paris Olympics. They won the bronze medal in the 10m Air Pistol Mixed Team Event. Bhakar has created history with this bronze medal.
India has won its second medal at the Paris 2024 Olympics. Manu Bhakar and Sarabjot Singh have added another bronze to the country’s medal tally. The duo won the bronze medal in the 10m Air Pistol mixed team event at the Olympics, beating South Korean pair Oh Ye-jin and Lee Won-ho. With this medal, Manu Bhakar has created history as the first Indian to achieve the great feat.
The 22-year-old Manu Bhakar became the first Indian to win two medals in one Olympic sport when he partnered Sarabhyot Singh to win a bronze medal in the 10m air pistol mixed team event at Paris 2024. Bhakar also bagged her first medal at Paris 2024 when she won a bronze medal in the women’s 10m air pistol singles event.
Manu Bhakar is the second Indian woman to win an Olympic medal. PV Sindhu is the first Indian woman to achieve this feat, having won a silver medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics and then a bronze medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Bhakar is just the third Indian to win multiple medals in individual events after PV Sindhu and wrestler Sushil Kumar.
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But this is not the end of Manu Bhakar’s activities at the Paris Olympics 2024. On August 2, Manu Bhakar will once again enter the shooting arena to compete in the women’s 25m air pistol event. Bhakar is also a professional 25m shooter and has won gold medals in the 25m pistol team event at the ISSF World Cup, Shooting World Championships and Asian Games. She also won a bronze medal in the women’s 25m individual event at the ISSF World Cup in 2023. So, the shooter from Haryana has a good chance of winning a medal in this category.
If Bakar indeed wins a medal in this event, she will become the first Indian woman in Olympic history to win three medals.
Manu Bhakar and Sarabjot Singh got off to a weak start in the 10m Air Pistol mixed team event at the Chateauroux Shooting Centre in Paris, losing the first series, but continued to dominate after that, and although South Korea mounted a brief comeback late in the match, Bhakar and Sarabjot kept their cool to win 16-10.