Indian Hockey Ends 96-Yr-Lengthy Olympics Wait, Thanks To Manu Bhaker, Sarabjot Singh

Taking pictures duo of Manu Bhaker and Sarabjot Singh made the complete nation proud on Tuesday as they clinched the bronze medal within the 10m air pistol blended staff occasion on the Paris Olympics 2024. With this Bhaker turned the one athlete from impartial India to bag two medals in a single version of the Olympics, as she earlier gained a bronze medal within the 10m air pistol ladies’s closing. Nevertheless, there’s one other file that has been created by the duo with this bronze medal.

In 1928, India’s hockey staff began its Olympic journey and hasn’t seemed again since then. Up to now, they’ve gained 12 medals on the Olympics, together with eight gold medals. The hockey staff waited for 96 years to see one other Indian staff getting a medal on the Olympics and their wait got here to an finish on Tuesday when Bhaker and Sarabjot bagged the bronze. 

Earlier in 1952, wrestler KD Jadhav turned India’s first particular person medalist (bronze) and gave firm to the hockey staff. However, Bhaker and Sarabjot turned the primary staff to bag a medal on the Olympics. 

Speaking about Bhaker and Sarabjot, the Indian pair defeated the Korean duo of Lee Wonoho and Oh Yeh Jin 16-10 to earn the nation its second medal at Chateauroux’s capturing vary.

The 22-year-old Bhaker had earlier snared the ladies’s 10m air pistol bronze medal on the similar venue on Sunday, wiping off the reminiscences of a horrendous Olympic debut in Tokyo 2020 the place her pistol malfunctioned leaving her in tears.

Earlier than her, British-Indian athlete Norman Pritchard had gained two silver medals in 200m dash and 200m hurdles on the 1900 Olympics however that achievement had come within the pre-Independence period.

Whereas it’s a huge achievement for ladies’s sport within the nation, Tuesday’s medal can be redemption for Sarabjot, who had didn’t make the boys’s 10m air pistol closing, ending ninth on Saturday with a rating of 577.

(With PTI Inputs)