Manu Bhaker News

Manu Bhaker secured the 11th Paris Olympics quota place for the country after finishing fifth in women's 25m sports pistol at the Asian Shooting Championships in Changwon, Korea on Saturday.

They claimed the top prize minutes after another trio of Indian shooters dished out an excellent performance to win a silver medal in the women's 50m rifle 3 position event.

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Legendary pistol shooter Rana recently reunited with Bhaker after the much-publicised split two years back ahead of the Tokyo Olympics.

Olympians Manu Bhaker, Divyansh Singh Panwar and Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar were among the shooters named in the Indian squads for the upcoming ISSF World Championships and Asian Games

Manu Bhaker's split with Jaspal Rana was being attributed as the main reason for her forgettable performance in Tokyo, where she also suffered a pistol malfunction that almost left her in tears.

Indian shooters at the top of their game were in Group A, while shooters who qualified for open selection trials were in Group B.

Manu Bhaker swept the women's 25m pistol competition, winning the individual women's and junior women's gold at the National Shooting Championship Competitions. She had earlier won the two team gold medals in the same event.

The likes of Olympians Manu Bhaker, Apurvi Chandela, Anjum Moudgil, Abhishek Verma, Deepak Kumar and Yashaswini Deshwal could not find a place in the Indian squad for ISSF World Cup in Cairo as they did not meet the selection criteria.

India's woman pistol ace Manu Bhaker and Iran's reigning Olympic champion Javad Foroughi, won the 10M Air Pistol Mixed Team gold at the ongoing ISSF President's Cup Rifle/Pistol in Wroclaw, Poland.