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Shooting World Cup: Manu Bhaker wins India’s sixth medal, China claims sixth gold
India is placed second in the Shooting World Cup with the lone gold won by Sarabjot Singh in the men’s 10m air pistol and one silver and four bronze medals.
Manu Bhaker sweeps women’s 25m pistol competition at Shooting Nationals with four golds
Manu Bhaker won the women’s, junior’s 25m titles at Shooting Nationals to take personal tally to 4 golds.
Manu Bhaker strikes double gold in Kumar Surendra Singh Memorial Shooting event
20-year-old Bhaker beat Arshdeep Kaur 16-14 in a neck-to-neck women's 10m air pistol gold-medal match, while she beat Yuvika Tomar in the junior women's final match 16-12.
Manu Bhaker and Shiva Narwal win mixed team pistol title
Manu Bhaker and Shiva Narwal won the 10m air pistol mixed team title at the 20th Kumar Surendra Singh Memorial Shooting competition.
ISSF Junior World Cup: Indian women pistol shooters make it five gold out of five
India's women pistol shooters have made it five gold out of five after the trio of Manu Bhaker, Esha Singh and Rhythm Sangwan trounced Germany 16-2 in the 25m pistol team final in Suhl on Tuesday.
Top pistol shooters Vijay Kumar, Jitu Rai back in national squad
Olympic silver medallist Vijay Kumar and World Championship silver winner Jitu Rai on Thursday returned to the national squad after being away for a prolonged period.
India shooting team for Cairo World Cup picked, many Olympians including Manu Bhaker not part of it
The team was picked after taking into account the qualification score along with final ranking points of the 64th National Championship as the selection trials could not be held owing to COVID-19.
Year in Review 2021: It was Rio 2016 all over again at Tokyo Olympics but Indian shooters shine elsewhere
The Indian shooters failed miserably when it mattered the most and on a stage where they were primed for success, making 2021 one of their worst years in recent memory.
National Shooting Championships: Rahi Sarnobat wins women's 25m pistol event; Manu Bhaker collects bronze
Maharashtra's Sarnobat shot a solid 37 in a top draw final to see off young and in-form challengers to her crown.
National Shooting Championships: Manu Bhaker crowned women's air pistol champion
Haryana's Manu Bhaker was crowned the women's 10m air pistol champion for the second successive time, shooting 241.6 in the final of the 64th National Shooting Championship
ISSF President's Cup: Rahi Sarnobat, Manu Bhaker make sport pistol final
It was triple delight for Bhaker as she also qualified for the gold medal match in the 25m rapid fire mixed team pistol event, assuring her of at least a silver to add to the gold she won with Iran's Javad Foroughi in the 10m air pistol mixed team event.
Manu Bhaker and Javad Foroughi win air pistol mixed team gold in President's Cup
The Indo-Iranian pair got the better of the French-Russian duo of Mathilde Lamolle and Artem Chernousov 16-8 in the gold medal match on Friday.
Seven-member Indian contingent to compete in inaugural ISSF President's Cup
The top 12 athletes in individual rifle and pistol events according to the 2021 world ranking post the Games, have been invited to participate in the event where individual winners will be awarded the Golden Target, the Best Athlete of the Year title.
India finish ISSF Junior World Championships on top with 43 medals, including 17 golds
The country's shooters won all the available 12 medals on the final competition day of the top junior tournament at the Las Palmas Shooting range in the Peruvian capital of Lima.
ISSF Junior World Championships: Manu Bhaker, Naamya Kapoor and Rhythm win 25m Pistol team gold
The Indian women's team defeated the USA team comprising Abbie Russell Leverett, Katelyn Morgan Abeln and Ada Claudia Korkhin 16-4 in the final.
ISSF Junior World Championships: Manu Bhaker claims third gold as India surge to top of standings
India swept the 10m air pistol medal events, including the mixed, women's and men's team competitions as well the 10m air rifle men's team gold, to end the day with six gold, six silver and two bronze medals.
ISSF Junior World Championship: Manu Bhaker wins second gold; men's 10m air rifle team win gold too
India are leading the medal tally with four gold, five silver and two bronze for a total of 11 medals.
ISSF Junior World Championship: Manu Bhaker snatches gold; silvers for Esha Singh, Rudrankksh Patil
The 19-year-old Manu Bhaker shot 241.3 to win the top prize in her event, while Singh managed 240.0.
Tokyo Olympics 2020: Indian shooters will learn from failure, says rifle coach Deepali Deshpande
National rifle coach and former Olympian Deepali Deshpande is also figuring out what went wrong but she is confident that the experience of Tokyo Olympics will help the shooters during 2024 Paris Games.
Tokyo Olympics 2020: Tried my best, will continue to shoot in three events including 25m, says Manu Bhaker
While the controversy and the negativity around her dispute with Rana did have an impact on her performance, wanting to win medals at all cost made it worse, Bhaker said.