The first Indian to win multiple medals at a single Olympic Games,is Manu Bhaker makes history in Paris.
Manu Bhaker became the first athlete from independent India to win two medals at the same Olympics in Paris in 2024.
For the second time in three days, Manu Bhaker wrote history at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. She was the epitome of poise.
The 22-year-old finished third in the mixed team event of the same discipline with Sarabjot Singh after winning a historic bronze in the women’s 10m air pistol final on Sunday.
With the win, India added a second medal to its collection at the Paris Games, and Manu became the first athlete from an independent India to win two medals at the same Olympics.
At the Chateauroux shooting range, the Indian team defeated Lee Wonoho and Oh Yeh Jin of South Korea 16–10 to take home the bronze.
Manu had completed her journey of redemption, putting behind her terrible Olympic debut in Tokyo 2020, when she had earlier finished third in the women’s 10m air pistol event at this very arena on Sunday.
Manu became the first Indian markswoman to finish on the podium in the Olympics with the medal, which also put an end to India’s 12-year wait for a shooting medal at the Games.
Manu became the second Indian after Norman Pritchard to win two Olympic medals in a single Games edition on Tuesday in Paris after taking home a second bronze.
But for Pritchard, who won two silver medals at the 1900 Olympics in the 200-meter sprint and 200-meter hurdles, that accomplishment occurred prior to independence.
Manu followed ace shuttler as the second Indian woman to win two medals at the Olympics. PV In the women’s singles badminton competition,
Sindhu placed second in Rio in 2016 and then won a bronze medal in Tokyo in 2020. She is the third athlete from an independent India to win two Olympic medals in a single sport overall. The first wrestler on the list was Sushil Kumar, who took home silver in London in 2012 and bronze in the Beijing Games in 2008.
Manu will compete in the women’s 25-meter air pistol event on Friday, giving her the opportunity to win a third medal at the Olympics in Paris.
Buck’s final drive came at the end of the Châteauroux shooting range, where she finished just 0.1 points behind South Korean Kim Ye-ji, who won the prize in the sixth match of the second leg.
Manu Bhaker’s early tryst with shooting:
Manu Bhaker was born in Jhajjar district of Haryana and during his education, he excelled in tennis, skating, boxing and martial arts ‘Tangta’ and won awards in national competitions.
Just after the 2016 Rio Olympics, the 14-year-old boy became interested in shooting and soon developed a passion for the sport.
Rise of a teenage sensation:
Teenage hypersensitivity Bhaker peaked in 2018, but his brilliance was evident in the year prior. He was only sixteen when Olympian and former World No. 1 Heena Sidhu, who won the 10m air pistol final with a score of 242.3 the following year, made headlines at the 2017 National Shooting Championships.
At the Commonwealth Games, she took home a gold medal.
She won gold in the women’s 10m air pistol event at the 2018 International Shooting Federation World Cup and qualified for an Olympic medal at the 2019 Munich World Cup.
Making history in Paris 2024:
Manu Bhakar’s bronze medal at the Paris Olympics was historic. Athens When Suma Shirur appeared in the 10m air rifle event in Athens in 2004, she became the first Indian woman shooter to reach an Olympic final in an individual event in 20 years in each Olympic Games.
Marked by strength and determination, Manubhakar’s journey continues to inspire aspiring athletes across India and beyond.