Indian shooter Manu Bhaker has already created history at the Paris Olympics 2024 and now she can set a new record. Manu Bhaker has cleared the women’s 25m pistol qualification round on Saturday, August 2 and entered the final. She can now score a hat-trick of medals in shooting in a single Olympics. Manu Bhaker stood second with a score of 590-24x. With this, she made it to the finals of the event, while her teammate Isha Singh finished 18th after scoring 581-17x and was out of the tournament.
Manu Bhaker will compete with seven other players in the women’s 25m pistol final. She can also win a gold medal in this event, because she likes this event very much. Manu Bhaker’s final match will be held on Saturday at Chateauroux at 1 pm. Bhakar scored 294 in the precision stage, while in the rapid stage he scored 296 and made it to the top 2. Isha Singh, on the other hand, scored a total of 581-17x (291 in precision and 290 in rapid). She failed to make it to the women’s 25 meter pistol final.
Manu scored 97, 98 and 99 points respectively in three series of 10-10 marks in the precision round. In the rapid round, he scored 100, 98 and 98 marks in three series. Hungary’s Major Veronika topped the qualification with a score of 592, equaling the Olympic qualification record. After scoring 95 and 96 points in the first two series of Precision, Isha made a strong comeback with 100 points, but could only score 97, 96 and 97 points in the Rapid round. Let us tell you that Manu Bhakar has won bronze in Women’s 10 meter Air Pistol and Mixed Team 10 meter Air Pistol event.
