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With a bronze medal at the Paris 2024 Olympics, gold medals at the World Championships, Asian Games, Commonwealth Games and Youth Olympic Games, Manu Bhaker has become the most successful Indian woman shooter in history at a very young age.

Manu Bhaker became the first Indian woman to win an Olympic medal in shooting with a bronze at Paris 2024 in the women’s 10m air pistol event. It came a day after she became the first female shooter to reach an Olympic final in an individual event in 20 years. A pistol malfunction had denied Manu Bhaker a shot at a medal at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics in the same event.

Even as a teenager, Manu Bhaker quickly rose through the ranks to become India’s latest shooting star.

Manu Bhaker was born on February 18, 2002, in Jhajjar, Haryana, a state known for its boxers and wrestlers. She, however, took to sports like tennis, skating and boxing in school and also participated in a form of martial arts called ‘thang ta’, winning medals at the national level.

She then impulsively decided to try her hand at shooting when she was just 14 – just after the Rio 2016 Olympics ended – and loved it. Within a week, Manu Bhaker asked her father to get her a sports shooting pistol to hone her craft.

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