Tripura CM Saha congratulates Manu Bhaker, Sarabjot Singh for winning bronze in air pistol mixed team event
Jul 30, 2024
Agartala (Tripura) [India], July 30 : Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha congratulated Indian shooters Manu Bhaker and Sarabjot Singh for winning bronze medal in the 10 m air pistol mixed team event at the Paris Olympics 2024.
Taking to X CM Manik Saha, "Kudos #India. Manu Bhaker & Sarabjot Singh beat the Korean pair 16-10 in 10m Air Pistol Mixed team event to win India's 2nd medal in Paris. Special regards to Manu Bhaker for becoming 1st Indian to get 2nd Medal in the same Olympic Games by any individual."
Bhaker and her partner Sarabjot Singh secured bronze in the 10 m air pistol mixed team event on Tuesday.
Earlier, Bhaker had won bronze in the women's individual 10M air pistol event.
Manu-Sarabjot beat South Korea's Lee Wonho and Oh Ye Jin 16-10 in the bronze medal play-off match. With this medal, India's medal tally increases to two at the Paris Olympics. Both Bhaker and Sarabjot shot consistently with regular 10s in the series against the Koreans.
Manu is the first athlete from the Indian contingent after independence to get two medals in a single edition of the Paris Olympics. Earlier in the 1900 Olympics, Norman Pritchard won two medals while representing India, both silver in the 200 m and 200 m hurdles.
Manu-Sarabjot's shooting mixed team medal is India's first-ever shooting team medal in Olympic history.
Also, Bhaker joins an elite group of athletes to have multiple individual medals at the Olympics: PV Sindhu (badminton silver at Rio 2016 and bronze medal at Tokyo 2020) and Sushil Kumar (wrestling bronze at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and silver medal at the 2012 London Olympics).
