Paris Olympics 2024: Manu Bhaker on verge of making history again

India first participated in the Olympics in 1900 in Paris and since then there have been only three athletes who have won multiple medals at the Summer Games. One of them was Norman Pritchard who won two medals at the 1900 Games in athletics, both silver, and the other two are – Sushil Kumar (wrestling) and PV Sindhu (badminton).

Sushil first won bronze at the Beijing 2008 games and made history by winning silver at London 2012 as he became the first-ever individual athlete from India to win multiple Olympic medals post-independence.

Sindhu scripted history when she won silver in the Rio Olympics – first silver in badminton – and bronze at Tokyo 2020. The badminton ace is the only woman athlete from India to win multiple medals at the Olympics.

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But no Indian athlete since independence has managed to win multiple medals at a single edition of the Olympics and Manu Bhaker is on the verge of making this record.

The 22-year-old, who won India’s first medal at the Paris Olympics 2024 – a bronze in women's 10m air pistol event – will fight for bronze in the mixed team event on 30 July along with Sarabjot Singh.

Manu Bhaker and Sarabjot Singh qualified for the 10m air pistol mixed team bronze medal match by finishing third in the qualification with a score of 580. Only the top four teams from the qualification enter the medal matches in the air pistol mixed team event.

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The top two teams will fight for the gold/silver medal while the third and fourth-paced teams will contest in the bronze medal match. The medal match will take place on 30 July at 1 PM IST.

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The Haryana shooter will also take part in the 25m pistol event.

Manu Bhaker scripted history on Sunday when she became the first Indian woman to win a shooting medal after scoring 221.7 in the final. She missed the silver medal by 0.1 score.

The only ever India to win multiple medals at a single edition of the Olympics is Normal Prichard who won silver in men’s 200m and men’s 200m hurdles at the 1900 Paris Games but this took place before the country’s independence.