Manu Bhaker clinched two bronze medals in women’s 10m air pistol and the mixed team 10m air pistol with fellow Indian shooter Sarabjot Singh at the Paris Olympics 2024.
Double Olympic medalist Indian shooter Manu Bhaker encapsulated her journey in a picture following her successful campaign at the recently concluded Paris Olympics 2024.
Manu Bhaker clinched two bronze medals in women’s 10m air pistol and the mixed team 10m air pistol with fellow Indian shooter Sarabjot Singh. With this, the 22-year-old shooter from Haryana became the first Indian athlete to win two medals in a single edition of the Summer Games.
Bhaker also joined Sushil Kumar, PV Sindhu and Neeraj Chopra in the elusive list of athletes from independent India to win two medals at the Olympics. After achieving historic feat at the Paris Olympics, Manu Bhaker looked back at her journey of achieving her dream of winning an Olympic medal for India.
Taking to her X handle (formerly Twitter), Bhaker posted a collage where she highlighted her journey from being young shooter from Haryana to becoming Olympic medalist.
Along with the collage, the 22-year-old wrote, “How it started vs how it’s going, and Grateful for everything in between.”
How it started vs how it’s going, and Grateful for everything in between 💪🥉🇮🇳 pic.twitter.com/z8LzoyoZI2
— Manu Bhaker🇮🇳 (@realmanubhaker) August 20, 2024
Manu Bhaker picked shooting as her hobby but soon discovered her passion for the sport, which propelled to pursue it professionally. Apart from shooting, Bhaker tried hands at various sports including tennis, boxing, skating and Manipuri martial art Thang-Ta and won several medals at the national level in these sports.
However. shooting became her true calling, where she excelled well and received recognition at the international stage. Bhaker was first shot to fame when she became the youngest shooter to clinch a gold medal at the 2018 ISSF World Cup. That year, Bhaker won the gold medals at the Commonwealth Games and Youth Olympics.