Manu Bhaker finishes fifth in women's 25m pistol event to secure 2024 Paris Olympics quota

Indian shooter Manu Bhaker on Saturday secured her quota for the 2024 Paris Olympics, with a fifth-place finish in the final of the women’s 25m pistol event at the Asian Shooting Championship in South Korea’s Changwon.

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Team 🇮🇳 secures a spot in the women's 25m Pistol event at Paris 2024, thanks to Manu Bhaker's fifth-place finish at the Asian Shooting Championships 2023!#RoadToParis2024 | #OlympicQualifiers | @WeAreTeamIndia pic.twitter.com/ueaLztT8wC

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Overall, Bhaker became the 11th Indian shooter to secure a quota for the 2024 Paris Olympics, and the fifth woman shooter to do so, after Mehuli Ghosh, Sift Kaur Samra, Rajeshwari Kumar and Tilottama Sen. Arjun Babuta and Sarabjot Singh, Swapnil Kusale and Akhil Sheoran are some of the other shooters to have secured quotas for the 2024 Paris Olympics. Manu had topped the qualification with a score of 591, and in the final, she finished fifth with a score of 24. With a score of 37, it was China’s Liu Rui who clinched the women’s 25m pistol competition with, Iran’s Haniyeh Rostamiyan finishing second with a score of 36 Zhao Nan and Feng Sixuan of China clinch the third place and fourth place with 32 and 27 points.