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Olympics 2024 Day 3 Live Updates: Manu Bhaker and Sarabjot Singh reach the 10m air pistol mixed team bronze medal match while Rhythm Sangwan and Arjun Singh Cheema crashed out. In women's 10m air rifle final, Ramita Jindal finished in 7th position.
The Indian contingent gears up for a Super Monday in Paris Olympic Games 2024, after shooter Manu Bhaker opened the nation's tally with a bronze medal in the 10m Air Pistol final. Bhaker missed out on a medal in the Tokyo Games due to a pistol malfunction but made amends this time, bagging India's first medal in Paris. On Monday, Bhaker and Sarabjot Singh. Shooter Ramita Jindal failed to bag a medal, finishing 7th but Arjun Babuta can add to the tally in men's individual 10m Air Rifle final.
India's Harmeet Desai suffered a 0-4 loss against world no. 5 Felix Lebrun of France in the second round of the men's singles table tennis competition, ending his maiden Olympic campaign here on Sunday. The 31-year-old from Surat couldn't settle into a rhythm to go down 8-11 8-11 6-11 8-11 against the 17-year-old local hopeful in 28 minutes, which brought the curtains down on India's campaign in men's singles competitions.
India's Schedule, Medal Events At Olympics 2024 Day 3: After Manu Bhaker's bronze medal-winning show in 10m air pistol on Sunday, all eyes will be on Ramita Jindal and Arjun Babuta, who will be competing in the 10m air rifle women's and men's categories respectively. Manu Bhaker and Sarabjot Singh along with Rhythm Sangwan and Arjun Singh Cheema will compete in 10m air pistol mixed team qualification. The top two teams will be assured of medals. The Indian men's archery team will be playing in the quarter-finals too.
Two-time world champion Nikhat Zareen powered into the women's 50kg Olympics pre-quarterfinals with a tenacious victory over Germany's Maxi Carina Kloetzer in Pais on Sunday. Trailing on three cards after the first round, the 28-year-old Indian prevailed by a 5-0 margin against the German in a rather messy round of 32 contest at the North Paris Arena. The unseeded Zareen, who is making her Games debut and is a strong medal contender, did not have the best of starts as the German closed the ring on her with aggressive attacking.
22-year-old shooter Manu Bhaker won bronze in the women's 10m air pistol final, becoming the first Indian to win a medal in Paris Olympics 2024. Manu Bhaker also created history by becoming the first female Indian shooter to win an Olympic medal. Bhaker maintained an excellent standard from start-to-finish, showing incredible skill and composure and spending the majority of the event in the top 3. Bhaker opens India's medal tally at Paris, as the nation aims to eclipse their medal count of seven from Paris 2024.
Sport can be brutal at times and there's arguably another sport where the margin of error is a small as in shooting. Three years after the Tokyo heartbreak, she produced a supremely confident performance to redeem herself and enter the women's 10m air pistol final at the Paris Olympics on Saturday. In the process, Manu became the first female shooter from India to reach the final of an individual shooting event in the Olympic Games. Manu could go on to become the only Indian shooter to win a gold medal, if she takes the top podium spot in the final on Sunday.
A supremely confident Manu Bhaker was at the top of her game as she entered the 10m women's air pistol final, salvaging the day for Indian shooting after an underwhelming start by her compatriots in the Olympic Games on Saturday. The 22-year-old Bhaker shot 580 to finish third in the qualifications in which Hungarian ace Veronika Major claimed the top spot with a score of 582.