Manu Bhakar, a female shooter of India, who won two Olympic medals at the Paris Olympics, is celebrating her 23rd birthday on February 18. She was determined from childhood that she would make her name in the world of sports. Manu Bhakar is the star shooter of India, who won 2 bronze medals to the country at the Paris Olympics. So let’s know about some interesting things related to Manu Bhakar’s life on the occasion of his birthday …
Birth and family
Manu Bhakar was born on 18 February 2002 in Goria village of Jhajjar, Haryana. Manu Bhakar studied at Universal Public Senior Secondary School. His father is an engineer in the Merchant Navy and his mother is a teacher.
Shrinking
Please tell that Manu Bhakar did boxing from the world of sports. He was very fond of playing since childhood. During this time he was 6 years old. While boxing in childhood, Manu Bhaker suffered an eye injury. After which his mother refused to box him. After which he quit boxing and Manu did not break the game due to his craze and passion towards the game. He then showed his game in cricket, karate, kabaddi and skating. Then Manu Bhaker treated towards lawn tennis and swimming.
One day Manu Bhaker was walking in the shooting range with her father. At the same time, Manu’s father asked him to shoot and at first he shot a great shoot. It was from here that his interest in shooting started increasing. She started taking shooting training during school. After this, national coach Jaspal Rana gave training to Manu Bhakar for shooting. In 2016, he started shooting in his school in 2016.
The Senior Secondary School, located about 25 km from Goria village of Manu Bhakar, has only shooting range. Here Manu Bhakar was given 5 hours of training daily. You can guess from the fact that Manu Bhaker worked so hard in such a short time and today he is a national champion.
Achievements
In the year 2017, Manu Bhakar set a new national record by winning 9 gold medals at the National Championship in Kerala. The same year named silver medal in the Asian Junior Championships.
Bhakar defeated Champion Alejandra Zawala twice in the 10m air pistol final of the 2018 International Sport Shooting World Cup in Guadalajra, Mexico. This victory led to the youngest Indian player to win a gold medal in the World Cup.
Manu Bhakar also won double gold in the ISSF Junior World Cup in the year 2018. In the same year, she won the gold medal in the women’s 10m air pistol event at the 2018 Commonwealth Games. Manu set a new record in the Commonwealth Games along with his score.
In May 2019, Bhakar finished fourth in the Munich ISSF World Cup and quilted for the Tokyo Olympics in the 10 meter air pistol event.
In August 2020, Bhakar was honored with the Arjuna Award by President Ram Nath Kovind at a virtual award ceremony.
