Paris Olympic 2024: Manu Bhaker and Sarabjot Singh win bronze in 10m air pistol mixed team event
Paris Olympic 2024: At the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, India’s top shooter Manu Bhaker and her partner Sarabjot Singh won another bronze medal for the nation. In the mixed team 10m air pistol contest on Tuesday, the pair triumphed over Wonho Lee and Jin ye Ohin of Korea, increasing India’s medal total. Manu achieved another notable first during the process: since India’s independence in 1947, no athlete from the nation has ever won two medals in a single event. Manu had already taken home a bronze in the women’s 10m air pistol individual final.
When Bhaker secured a bronze in the women’s individual 10m air pistol final, it was her first Olympic medal. She increased India’s total to two medals while also doubling her own medal haul.
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— India at Paris 2024 Olympics (@sportwalkmedia) July 30, 2024
In the bronze medal match, India defeated Korea 16–10, marking their first-ever medal victory in a team event at the Olympic Games in Paris.
Norman Pritchard, an Indian athlete who competed in athletics during the 1900 Games while India was ruled by the British, is the only athlete from India to have won two medals in a single Olympic campaign. No Indian athlete has won two medals in a single campaign since Pritchard.
Throughout their careers, a few Indian athletes have combined to win two medals at the Olympic Games. They are PV Sindhu (badminton) and Sushil Kumar (wrestling).
Prior to winning a silver medal in London 2012, Sushil won a bronze medal at the Olympics in Beijing in 2008. In the process, he made history as the first Indian individual athlete to win two different Olympic medal campaigns after independence.
After losing to Spain’s Carolina Marin in the championship match, shuttler Sindhu took home silver at the Rio Olympics. It was the first time India has taken home an Olympic silver medal in badminton. A bronze was later won by Sindh in Tokyo 2020. The only Indian female athlete to win multiple medals at the Olympics, albeit in two separate competitions, is Sindhu.