Indian Shooter Wins A Bronze At Paris Olympics

PARIS, (IANS) – Manu Bhaker on July 28 made history by becoming the first Indian woman shooter to win a medal in the Olympics, bagging a bronze in the 10m Air Pistol event in Paris 2024.

“I feel great, and it was a medal-long due for India. I was just merely a mode to do it and India deserves even more medals, as many as possible. We are looking forward to as many events as possible this time. And the entire team worked hard. And personally, for me, the feeling is really surreal,” said Manu soon after winning the medal.

“I feel that I did a good job, put in a lot of effort, and even till the last shot I was just fighting with all the energy that I had. This was bronze. But I’m grateful that I could win, maybe a better result next time,” said Manu in the post-event interview..

With a score of 221.7 at the Chateauroux Shooting Centre, Manu brought home India’s first shooting medal in 12 years since Gagan Narang and Vijay Kumar’s successes at the London Olympics.

“I read a lot of Gita and all, so what was going through my mind is its teaching, ‘just do what you are meant to do, just do what you are supposed to do and whatever the destiny, you can’t control the outcome of it’. In the Gita, Krishna says to Arjun ‘You know you focus on your karma and not on the outcome of the Karma’, so only that was running through my mind. I was like, ‘Okay, just do your thing and let it all be from here,” the bronze medalist said.