India's <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/sports/other-sports/article/paris-olympics-2024-manu-bhaker-enters-her-first-olympic-final-salvages-india-underwhelming-day-in-shooting-23368618" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">Manu Bhaker</a> finished fourth in the women's 25m pistol shooting event and capped a magnificent campaign in the ongoing Paris Olympics 2024 with an unprecedented two medals here on Saturday.
The 22-year-old Bhaker shot 28 in the eight-women final to miss out on completing a hat-trick of medals in a single edition of the Games. She lost to Hungarian bronze medallist Veronika Major in the shoot-off.
Before Bhaker, no Indian athlete has claimed more than one medal at the same Olympics.
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In the qualification on Friday, Bhaker shot a total of 590 (294 in precision, 296 in rapid) out of a possible 600 to reach her third final of the Paris Olympics 2024 in second place.
Earlier in the sporting spectacle, Bhaker had won bronze in the individual 10m air pistol competition and then combined with Sarabjot Singh to claim another third-place finish in the 10m air pistol mixed team event.
Bhaker's second bronze had made her the first Indian after Independence to win two medals at the same Olympic Games.
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