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Manu Bhaker (born 18 February 2002) is an Indian Olympian who competes in shooting. She won a bronze medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris in the women's 10 metre air pistol event, which was India's first medal of those Olympics and made her the first woman shooter from India to win a medal at any Olympics. [1]
1 day ago · Manu Bhaker also sealed an Olympics quota place with a fourth-place finish at the 2019 Munich ISSF World Cup. However, her debut at the Games did not go as planned. Shortly after Tokyo 2020, Manu Bhaker became the junior world champion in the women's 10m air pistol at Lima and did win the women's 25m pistol silver at the 2022 Cairo World Championships and a gold in the same event at the 2023 Asian Games in Hangzhou.
With a bronze medal at the Paris 2024 Olympics, gold medals at the World Championships, Asian Games, Commonwealth Games and Youth Olympic Games, Manu Bhaker has become the most successful Indian woman shooter in history at a very young age.
2 days ago · Manu Bhaker started the final strongly, scoring 50.4 in the first series for second place. A couple of 9.6s in the second series saw her slip to the third spot behind Oh Ye Jin and Yeji Kim. The Indian shooter took back the second position from Yeji Kim at the end of the third series and once again at the closing stages of the final but the South Korean shooter edged past Bhaker by 0.1 point to enter the gold medal round.
2 days ago · ESPN. Three years ago, Manu Bhaker was made the face of Indian shooting's failure at Tokyo 2020. Only a teenager then, making her Olympic debut, she had a terrible experience in all three events ...
1 day ago · Manu Bhaker opened India's medal tally at the Paris Olympics 2024 when the 22-year-old bagged a bronze in the final of the women's 10m air pistol event on Sunday. Bhaker, one of India's biggest ...
2 days ago · Manu Bhaker became the first Indian woman shooter to claim an Olympic medal by snaring a bronze in the 10m air pistol event at Chateauroux in France on Sunday, a triumph that opened the country ...
1 day ago · Manu Bhaker also sealed her entry into the Tokyo Olympics with a fourth-place finish at the 2019 Munich ISSF World Cup. She then added a gold and silver medal in the 10m Air Pistol at the 2021 New ...
1 day ago · Manu Bhaker said it felt “surreal” after landing India’s first medal at the Paris Olympics - a bronze in the women’s 10m air pistol. “India deserves many more medals. As many as possible. It takes a lot of effort,” Bhaker said after becoming India’s first female Olympic medalist in shooting. She shot a total of 221.7 to secure a podium finish. She finished in third place, just 0.1 points behind the eventual silver medallist Oh Yejin of South Korea, while fellow Korean Kim Yeji ...
2 days ago · Bronze medalist Manu Bhaker of India poses during the medal ceremony for the 10m Air Pistol Women event of the Shooting competitions in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the Shooting centre in Chateauroux, France, 28 July 2024 An elite athlete gets to bite an Olympic medal after years of blood and sweat and it was no different for 22-year-old Manu Bhaker, who relied on the teachings of Bhagwat Gita to fulfil a long-cherished dream. ...
