• Indian shooters Manu Bhaker and Sarabjot Singh won bronze medal in the 10m mixed team event in the Paris Olympics on July 30.

• Manu Bhaker scripted history to become the first Indian athlete in the  post-Independence era to win two Olympic medals in a single edition of the Games.

• She had earlier bagged the bronze medal in the women’s 10m air pistol event at the same venue.

• Before her, British-Indian athlete Norman Pritchard had won two silver medals in 200m sprint and 200m hurdles at the 1900 Olympics but that achievement had come in the pre-Independence era.

• The Indian pair defeated South Korea’s Oh Ye Jin and Wonho Lee 16-10 in the bronze medal match at Chateauroux’s shooting range.

• This was India’s sixth Olympic medal in shooting.

• Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore won India’s first Olympic medal in shooting with a silver at Athens 2004 in the men’s double trap. 

• Abhinav Bindra won India’s only gold medal in shooting in the men’s 10m air rifle at Beijing 2008.

• The only other time Indian shooters won two medals in shooting at a single edition of the Olympics was in London 2012. Gagan Narang (men’s 10m air rifle) and Vijay Kumar (men’s 25m rapid fire pistol) won silver and bronze, respectively.

• India blanked in shooting events at Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020.

• Sarabjot passed through a difficult phase trying to come to terms with the disappointment of the individual competition just three days back.

• Sarabjot, the 22-year-old from Dheen village near Ambala, missed the men’s 10m air pistol final by the smallest of margins.

• Sarabjot raised his game to match his teammate Manu Bhaker and secure a second shooting medal for India at the Paris Games.

• Sarabjot is a gold-medallist at World Championship, World Cup and Asian Games. 

Bhaker will next be seen in action in the 25m women’s pistol qualification on August 2.

• She had won gold medals in this event at the 2023 World Championships and the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games.

• Her long list of honours also includes nine World Cup gold medals across events.

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