Manu Bhaker is an Indian sport shooter, born on 18 February 2002 in Goria village in the Jhajjar district of Haryana. She tried tennis, skating, boxing and the Manipuri martial art thang-ta at school before deciding at fourteen to focus on shooting, and by fifteen she was among the best women shooters in India, winning nine gold medals at the 2017 National Games. In 2018 she won a World Cup gold in the 10 metre air pistol and the Commonwealth Games gold in the same event with a games record. At the 2024 Olympics she won bronze in the 10 metre air pistol, the first Indian woman shooter to win an Olympic shooting medal, and a second bronze in the 10 metre air pistol mixed team, making her the first Indian to win two medals at a single Games.
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At the 2024 Olympics, she became the first Indian woman shooter to win a medal by clinching the bronze in the 10m pistol event.
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