Manu Bhaker is about to compete for her third Olympic medal within the ladies’s 25m pistol remaining at Paris 2024.
Star Indian shooter Manu Bhaker is about to compete on Saturday, August 3, within the ladies’s 25m pistol remaining on the Paris Olympics 2024. The 22-year-old athlete from Haryana has already secured two bronze medals on this yr’s Games. Her occasion is scheduled to begin at 1:00 p.m. IST, and she or he enters the ultimate as a robust favourite, having completed second within the qualification spherical on Friday.
If Bhaker wins a medal on Saturday, she’s going to make history because the first Indian to win three Olympic medals. So far, solely 4 Indians have received two Olympic medals every: Norman Pritchard, Sushil Kumar, PV Sindhu, and Bhaker herself. Pritchard received two silver medals on the 1900 Paris Olympics, whereas wrestler Sushil and shuttler Sindhu have one silver and one bronze every.
Bhaker earned her first bronze within the ladies’s 10m air pistol occasion on July 28 and her second within the 10m air pistol blended workforce occasion on July 30. In the 25m pistol qualification occasion on Friday, she showcased distinctive talent and consistency, ending among the many high three all through the ‘precision’ and ‘rapid’ rounds. She scored a complete of 590, putting second behind Hungary’s Veronika Major, who set an Olympic report with a rating of 592.
During the qualification, Bhaker excelled within the ‘precision’ spherical with scores of 97, 98, and 99, totaling 294. In the ‘rapid’ spherical, she impressed much more, attaining an ideal rating of 100 adopted by two 98s, bringing her mixture to 296.
However, Asian Games medallist Esha Singh struggled, ending 18th out of 40 shooters with an mixture of 581 (291 in precision and 290 in fast), lacking the eight-shooter remaining by a big margin.
Despite profitable two bronze medals, Manu Bhaker urged her fellow countrymen not to be disillusioned if she does not safe extra medals. Nevertheless, her present type suggests she has a robust likelihood of profitable gold or silver. This exceptional efficiency comes after a disappointing marketing campaign on the Tokyo Games in 2021, the place a pistol malfunction hindered her Olympic aspirations.
Bhaker’s resilience and talent have been evident all through the Paris Olympics, and her upcoming efficiency within the 25m pistol remaining may solidify her standing as one in every of India’s biggest Olympians.
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