Shooter Swapnil Kusale wins bronze, India’s third medal of Paris Olympics | Paris Olympics 2024 Information

The Indian capturing contingent continued to fireside medals on day six of the Paris Olympics, with Swapnil Kusale profitable a bronze medal in males’s 50m Rifle 3 Positions occasion with a rating of 451.4.
China’s Liu Yukun gained gold with a complete rating of 463.6 and Ukraine shooter Serhiy Kulish’s 461.3 clinched him the silver medal.
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It is the third medal of the Paris Video games for India and third bronze, after Manu Bhaker clinched a bronze within the ladies’s 10m air pistol occasion to open India’s account, adopted by one other bronze within the 10m air pistol blended staff occasion gained by the pair of Manu and Sarabjot Singh.

It is the primary time that India have gained three capturing medals in a single version of the Olympics. Earlier than this, Gagan Narang and Vijay Kumar gained a bronze and a silver, respectively, on the London Video games in 2012.
“My heartbeat continues to be very quick,” Swapnil advised JioCinema after his bronze-medal win. “I used to be specializing in my respiratory, not bothered concerning the rating. Simply did what I had practised over time.”

Kusale was fifth on the finish of of kneeling and prone-position rounds with a complete rating of 310.1. Through the standing place elimination spherical, the Indian shooter constantly maintained a spot within the top-four, in the end clinching the bronze medal.
The 28-year-old Kusale was a part of the 50m 3P males’s staff that gained gold medal on the Hangzhou Asian Video games final 12 months. He’s first-ever Indian to qualify for an Olympic last of the lads’s 50m rifle 3 place and now the primary Olympic medallist for the nation within the occasion.

Swapnil, one of many 44 shooters within the qualifying spherical, secured the seventh spot with a rating of 590. Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar missed the ultimate, ending in eleventh place.