CHATEAUROUX:Team India overcame some early jitters as Sarabjot Singh gave Manu Bhaker some timely support to win the Paris Olympics 10m mixed team pistol bronze medal at the Chateauroux Shooting Centre here on Tuesday.
India scored an emphatic 16-10 win against Korea to win their second medal of the Summer Games as Bhaker made history for becoming the first Indian woman to clinch more than one medal in a single Olympics.
Serbia scored a stunning come-from-behind 16-14 victory against Turkey. In a sensational turn of events, Serbia’s Zorana Arunovic and Damir Mikec overturned an 8-2 deficit to leave Turkey’s Sevval Ilayda Tarhan and Yusuf Dikec in their wake. Interestingly, this was Turkey’s maiden shooting medal in an Olympics.
It’s turning out to be a dream Olympics for Manu Bhaker at Paris 2024. She won the 10m sports pistol bronze on Saturday to end a medal drought that started at Rio 2016 and continued through Tokyo 2020.
“Tokyo was not great for me at all. This has been a great Olympics. Lots of gratitude to God and all those who supported and loved me. It’s been a dream run but I want to focus on my next event,” Bhaker said.
Bhaker will compete in the 25m sports pistol qualifiers on August 2. It is one of her favourite events and she is the reigning Asian Games champion. Bhaker had also won the gold medal at the 2023 Baku world championships.
For Tuesday’s bronze medal win, credit should go to 22-year-old Singh, who has emerged from the Khelo India ecosystem and one who has been very well supported by the government’s Target Olympics Podium Scheme.