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Shooter Manu Bhaker finishes 5th, secures 11th Olympic quota for India | More sports News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Manu Bhaker earned India's 11th Paris Olympics quota place by finishing fifth in the women's 25m sports pistol event at the Asian Shooting Championships in Changwon, Korea on Saturday.As one of the most recognisable figures in Indian shooting, Manu had previously secured a quota place for the 2022 Tokyo Olympics. In the final, she scored 24 points and narrowly missed out on another international medal in a shoot-off.Iran's Haniyeh Rostamiyan claimed the second position, preventing a clean sweep by the Chinese, who had secured the top four spots in this shooting event.However, since China was only entitled to one Paris Olympics quota spot, and Haniyeh had already secured one earlier, Manu secured a Paris quota spot for India despite her fifth-place finish.Manu fought brilliant...
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Asian Games: ‘Pakar ke rakhna’ – The shouts that motivated Esha Singh | Asian Games 2023 News – Times of India

HANGZHOU: When Esha Singh was only 13, she was already giving sleepless nights to well-established international shooters. But before her opening event of the Asian Games, she herself wasn't getting a good sleep. It could be the butterflies for the teenager before her debut appearance in the continental Games. She, however, showed none when the day arrived.On Wednesday, Esha shot in her signature fashion, starting slowly and coming from behind to win a silver medal. Perhaps, a team gold in the event had settled the nerves. Or it could be the familiar whistles and shouts she was hearing from the stands."Pakar ke rakhna, chhorna nahi (don't lose your grip on the match)," a man repeatedly shouted from the stands. Olympic medallist and IOA vice-president Gagan Narang looked back and smiled....
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Asian Games: Esha Singh clinches silver in women’s 25m pistol | Asian Games 2023 News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Esha Singh, the young Indian shooter, secured a silver medal in the women's individual 25m pistol event at the Asian Games. Despite this, Manu Bhaker, the Youth Olympics champion, was unable to secure a podium finish in the same event.Esha, who is 18 years old, delivered an impressive performance, scoring 34 to claim the second spot. However, it was China's Rui Liu who clinched the gold medal, setting a games record with a score of 38. Jiin Yang managed to secure the bronze medal after shooting 29.Asian Games Day 4During her journey to gold, Rui Liu managed to break the previous record held by India's Rahi Sarnobat, who scored 34.Esha Singh shoots gold and silver on Asian Games debutIn contrast, Manu, who had an outstanding qualification round with a total score of 590, had t...
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Asian Games: Indian trio shoots team gold in women’s 25m pistol event | Asian Games 2023 News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: India's trio of Manu Bhaker, Esha Singh, and Rhythm Sangwan secured the gold medal in the women's 25m pistol team event at the Asian Games. Their collective effort produced a score of 1759, elevating India to the top of the podium and securing the nation's fourth gold medal at the ongoing sporting event.The standout performance of Manu Bhaker shone through as she also claimed the top spot in the qualification round, concluding the final rapid-fire series with an impressive score of 98 points.Asian Games Day 4China earned the silver medal with a score of 1756, while South Korea's shooting team settled for the third position, accumulating a total score of 1742.This victory came shortly after another Indian shooting trio delivered an outstanding performance, earning a silver med...
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Asian Games, shooting: India clinch 25m pistol women’s team gold as Manu Bhaker leads the way

The trio of Manu Bhaker, Esha Singh and Rhythm Sangwan clinched India’s fourth gold medal of the 19th Asian Games on Wednesday, pipping China to the top spot in the women’s 25m pistol team event. India finished with a total of 1759 and it needed them to be every bit as good as possible because China were not far behind at 1756. Bhaker, who had topped the standings at the end of day one (precision stage of qualification), continued her brilliant shooting in the rapid stage to put up a total of 590 and top the standings. Singh was fifth with 586 while Sangwan too was brilliant on day two to come seventh on 583. Most Read 1 Watch this Space: Chandrayaan-3 sleeps as US Space Force punches a hole in atmosphere 2 IAS officer, transferred over s...
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Paris Olympics quota spots up for grabs at Baku shooting Worlds

A 51-member Indian shooting team will take part in the 2023 Baku World Championships starting Thursday with names from Tokyo 2020 like Divyansh Singh Panwar, Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar and Manu Bhaker headlining the group. These World Championships come at a crucial time for Indian shooting with the 2024 Paris Olympics beginning in just under a year’s time. As of now, India has three quota spots for the Games, and these World Championships come with an opportunity for the shooters to guarantee an Indian name at their particular event in the French capital. At Baku, 12 Olympic events are being conducted with 48 Paris Olympic quotas up for grabs. The team has seen familiar faces making a return as well as some surprising decisions by the shooting federation – chief among which were that ...
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World University Games: India win 3 gold, 1 bronze | More sports News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: India made an impressive start at the World University Games in Chengdu, China, on Saturday, securing four medals, with shooters leading the charge and clinching three gold medals.Elavenil Valarivan, an Olympian shooter who had won silver in the 2019 edition in Italy, displayed remarkable improvement this year. She outshone her previous performance and claimed India's first gold medal in the 10m Air Rifle Women's event.Her fellow shooter Manu Bhaker showcased her exceptional skills in the 10m Air Pistol Women's event and bagged the second gold medal of the day for India.In a display of remarkable team coordination, Manu Bhaker, along with Yashaswini Singh Deswal and Abhidnya Ashok Patil, secured another gold medal for India in the 10m Air Pistol Team Women's event.India also ...
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Manu, Divyansh, Aishwary among shooters picked for World Championships, Asian Games | More sports News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: The Indian squads for the upcoming ISSF World Championships and Asian Games have been announced, featuring prominent Olympians Manu Bhaker, Divyansh Singh Panwar, and Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar.However, Saurabh Chaudhary, the 2018 Asian Games gold medallist and former Youth Olympic champion, did not make the cut for the teams in the two significant tournaments, as revealed on Saturday.The National Rifle Association of India (NRAI), the governing body of the sport in the country, announced the Indian rifle and pistol squad for the upcoming World Championships in August in Baku, Azerbaijan and the Hangzhou Asian Games in China in September.The shotgun squad had been announced earlier.A 22-member rifle and pistol squad will travel to Baku to vie for as many as 32 Paris Olympic ...
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Jaspal Rana back as Manu Bhaker’s personal coach two years after widely-publicised split | More sports News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Legendary pistol marksman and multiple Asian Games gold medallist Jaspal Rana confirmed on Friday that he is back as coach of one of India's best shooters Manu Bhaker, nearly two years after a split that hogged the headlines for days.Manu, the winner of several gold medals at World Cups, silver medallist at the World Championships and champion at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, had parted ways with Rana because of reported irreconcilable differences in the run-up to the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.Manu's split with Rana was being attributed as the main reason for her forgettable performance in Tokyo, where she also suffered a pistol malfunction that almost left her in tears.Manu's downfall coincided with her split with Rana."Yes, I will be pairing (up) with Manu Bhaker and (will) tra...
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Data analytics will help Indian shooting make better decisions: NRAI high performance director Pierre Beauchamp | More sports News – Times of India

BHOPAL: Pierre Beauchamp will complete one year in office next month as the high performance director of the National Rifle Association of India (NRAI). The ISSF World Cup at the MP State Shooting Academy here was his first assignment on home soil, and the Canadian isn't disappointed because the hosts won just a single gold medal, rather he is happy with the progression from qualification to finals.Compared to the last World Cup in Cairo, India's conversion from qualification score to podium finishes has risen by 34 per cent. If it was 50 per cent in Cairo, in Bhopal it grew to 84 per cent.Those are the kind of numbers Beauchamp has been working on over the last one year, but that is nothing new for the former ice hockey player.His stints as the McGill University coach or a sports scien...
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Manu Bhaker: ‘I hope I keep improving’: Manu Bhaker hopes Bhopal World Cup bronze is a sign of good days ahead | More sports News – Times of India

BHOPAL: The wide smile on Manu Bhaker's face said it all. Before the 25m pistol final on Saturday here at the ISSF World Cup, and even before the rapid stage of qualification, Manu was trying her best to hide her nervousness. Her father was by her side for all this while, perhaps because he had spotted the jitters in her daughter and tried comforting with his presence.It's been two years, since the Delhi World Cup in 2021, that Manu was on the podium of a senior international event. She had come close a few times and was close again now. Quite clearly, she didn't want to let it slip.She started the ranking match nervously, but held her nerve to find 14 hits, the same as eventual gold medal winner Doreen Vennekamp of Germany, and leave compatriot Esha Singh behind to enter the medal matc...
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Manu rediscovers form, clinches 25m sports pistol bronze

Focused: Manu rallied remarkably well after a mediocre start. | Photo Credit: A.M. FARUQUI Two years is quite a long time. For Manu Bhaker, the duration would have seemed longer.When the 21-year-old shooter waved at the crowd after the 25m sports pistol event during the ongoing ISSF World Cup, relief was writ large on her face. Finally, she had her hands on a World Cup medal again. The last one, a silver, had come in Osijek on June 26, 2021. This time, the colour is bronze, but she couldn’t care less. Manu had been firing blanks for a while now, most recently during the 10m air pistol qualification round at the same competition, when she shot 568-19x to finish 16th. In the third series, she shot four 8s and three 9s to manage a mere 89. Saturday’s story ran a different cours...
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Inspired by Saurabh bhaiya, Varun Tomar wins India first medal at the ISSF Cairo World Cup

Munkhbayar Dorjsuren looked like she could barely watch. The fight to claim the bronze medal in the men’s 10m air pistol event at the ISSF Cairo World Cup had boiled down to a single shot. It was a winner-takes-all shoot-off between two of Dorjsuren’s wards in the Indian shooting team: 21-year-old Sarabjot Singh and 19-year-old Varun Tomar. They had jockeyed for the last medal spot throughout the ranking match – with Sarabjot in third after 10 shots, Tomar leapfrogging him by the 15th, before being deadlocked at 250.6 after 25 shots to decide the bronze medal. In one shot, one of the two would take home India’s first medal at the Cairo World Cup while the other would return empty-handed. Eventually, it was Tomar’s 10.3 that helped him pip his senior compatriot by a margin of 0.2. “He’s ...