First Time In 124 Years: Shooters Earn India By no means-Seen-Earlier than Olympics Milestone

It began with Manu Bhaker clinching a bronze within the girls’s particular person 10m air pistol closing within the Paris Olympics Video games 2024. The younger pistol shooter opened India’s account on the medals tally, earlier than combining with Sarabjot Singh within the combined workforce 10m air pistol occasion to bag one other bronze. On Day 6 of the Paris Video games, Swapnil Singh took the tally to a few medals, bagging the nation’s first medal ever within the males’s 50m Rifle 3-Positions closing, a bronze. Within the course of, the shooters earned India a giant first within the 2024 version of the Olympic Video games.

Kusale shot an combination of 451.4 within the eight-shooter closing of males’s 50m Rifle 3P occasion, to complete third after being positioned sixth at one stage of the occasion.

The final time a 50m rifle shooter made it to the Olympic finals was in 2012 London when Joydeep Karmakar completed fourth in 50m rifle inclined occasion. The occasion is not part of the Olympic Video games.

It’s the first time ever in India’s historical past of competing within the Olympic Video games, which began in 1900, {that a} single sport has given the nation three medals in a single version. There have been events the place India has gained two medals in the identical sport in a single version of the Olympic Video games, however by no means earlier than has a sport given the nation three medals.

Even in taking pictures, which has been one of the vital rewarding sports activities for India within the Olympic Video games of the previous, the perfect any Indian contingent has achieved is 2 medals – Gagan Narang and Vijay Kumar profitable a bronze and a silver, respectively, on the London Video games in 2012.

Within the 2020 Tokyo Video games, India gained two medals in boxing — Bajrang Punia’s bronze in 65kg freestyle wrestling and Ravi Kumar Dahiya’s silver in 57kg freestyle wrestling.

Earlier than this, Norman Pritchard had fetched two silver medals for India, underneath British rule, on the 1900 Video games in athletics — males’s 200m and males’s 200m hurdles.

India nonetheless has extra occasions to go within the Olympics taking pictures. There stay expectations of extra medals within the sport, particularly with Manu Bhaker who will subsequent be competing within the girls’s 25m air pistol occasion.