Heartbreak For Manu Bhaker As She Misses Out On Grand Treble At Olympics

The sensational Manu Bhaker’s dream of a grand treble went up in smoke after she misplaced the tie-shoot for bronze medal to Hungarian Veronika Main by the narrowest of margins within the girls’s 25m sports activities pistol occasion on the Olympic Video games in Chateauroux on Saturday. In a high-quality ultimate, Bhaker gave it her all and was positioned No.1 amongst eight shooters for a quick interval, however she couldn’t preserve her consistency and ultimately completed. Nonetheless, the 22-year-old will return residence along with her twin bronze-medal feat in girls’s 10m air pistol and combined staff 10m air pistol partnering Sarabjot Singh.

The affable Indian shot 28 within the ultimate to be tied at third place together with Veronika after the eighth collection of 5 photographs. The Indian missed two of the 5 photographs to combination three factors, whereas Veronika drilled in 4 bullets into the goal to clinch the third spot, leaving Bhaker to pack up her package and go away her firing station.

Expectations had been actually excessive from Bhaker to carry residence a hat-trick of medals given her awe-inspiring kind. She stood as much as the problem even after slipping to sixth place early within the ultimate.

The primary collection was a catastrophe by which Bhaker missed three out of 5 targets, however step by step she lower down on the errors and bounced again within the second and third collection, shooing two consecutive ‘fours’ to take her factors tally to 10 going into the elimination spherical.

The elimination spherical was topsy-turvy to say the least. Bhaker’s possibilities waxed and waned till she took the highest spot for a quick interval within the seventh collection (fourth elimination spherical).

Nonetheless, South Korea’s Jin Yang wrested again the highest spot instantly at the same time as Bhaker slipped to tied third with a rank unhealthy three misses within the eighth spherical, which noticed her hunch from second spot to joint third with Veronika on 28 factors.

The shoot-off was nerve-jangling for each the markswomen and Bhaker had three clear photographs out of 5 on track, whereas Veronika had 4.

Bhaker’s end simply exterior the medal bracket as soon as once more delivered to the fore the saga of fourth-place finishes for Indian shooters within the quadrennial showpiece.

She joined the likes of Joydeep Karmakar (males’s 50m rifle susceptible, 2012 London), Abhinav Bindra (males’s 10m air rifle, 2016 Rio) and Arjun Babuta (10m air rifle, 2024 Paris Olympics). 

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