• Indian shooter Swapnil Kusale clinched the first ever Olympic bronze in 50m rifle 3 positions event on August 1.

• Kusale shot an aggregate of 451.4 in the eight-shooter final to finish third after being placed sixth at one stage.

• China’s Liu Yukun won the gold medal with 463.6 while Ukraine’s Serhiy Kulish (461.3) picked up his second Olympic silver to add to his earlier one from Rio 2016. 

• The 29-year-old from Kambalwadi village near Kolhapur in Maharashtra has been competing in international events since 2012 but he had to wait another 12 years to make his Olympics debut at the Paris Games.

• Kusale has been working for Central Railways since 2015.

• The last time a 50m rifle shooter made it to the Olympic finals was in 2012 London when Joydeep Karmakar finished fourth in 50m rifle prone event, a discipline which has been discontinued at the Olympics.

• India has now won three medals at the Paris 2024 Olympics so far and all of them have come in shooting events.

• Before Kusale, Manu Bhaker won a bronze in the women’s 10m air pistol individual event before teaming up with Sarabjot Singh for another bronze medal in the 10m air pistol mixed team.

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