Chandigarh (Haryana) [India], January 2 (ANI): Olympic double medalist Manu Bhaker shall be conferred the distinguished Khel Ratna Award. Haryana Minister Ranbir Singh Gangwa has congratulated Bhaker and different athletes for his or her achievements.
“This is a very proud moment for every resident of Haryana… I congratulate Manu Bhaker and other athletes… The athletes will get inspiration after receiving the award… The athletes of Haryana have always played a major role in winning medals for the country,” Gangwa, who’s Public Health Engineering and Public Works Minister, informed ANI.
Haryana has constantly contributed to India’s medal’s tally in varied sporting occasions.
The previous 12 months turned out to be a game-changing 12 months for shooter Manu Bhaker, who created historical past on the Paris Olympics 2024 by profitable two medals in capturing occasions, and changing into the primary Indian athlete within the post-independence period to attain this feat after Norman Pritchard in 1900.
Bhaker opened India’s medal tally on the Paris Olympics by securing third place within the ladies’s particular person 10m air pistol occasion, changing into the primary Indian lady shooter to win an Olympic medal, including one other milestone to her profession.
Following this, Bhaker, alongside Sarabjot Singh, clinched her second bronze within the 10m Air Pistol Mixed Team occasion. The duo displayed distinctive consistency, defeating South Korea’s Lee Wonho and Oh Ye Jin with a rating of 16-10 within the bronze medal play-off match. Their victory marked India’s first-ever capturing crew medal on the Olympics.
Despite narrowly lacking out on a historic treble by ending fourth within the ladies’s 25m pistol occasion, Bhaker’s achievements in Paris cement her standing as essentially the most profitable Indian lady shooter in historical past. Her profession is already embellished with gold medals from the World Championships, Asian Games, Commonwealth Games, and Youth Olympic Games.
This success comes after the heartbreak of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, the place a pistol malfunction denied Bhaker a shot at a medal in the identical occasion.
Born on February 18, 2002, in Jhajjar, Haryana, Bhaker initially pursued quite a lot of sports activities, together with tennis, skating, and boxing. She additionally excelled in ‘thang ta’, a type of martial arts, profitable medals on the nationwide stage earlier than dedicating herself to capturing. (ANI)