Jan 09, 2025 03:57 PM IST
Apart from her two Olympic medals, Manu Bhaker has seven Asian video games and Asian C’ships medals, and 21 medals on the World Championships and World Cup.
After a week-long confusion, Manu Bhaker was lastly added to the record of recipients of the celebrated Main Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award, on January 2. The affirmation by the sports activities ministry got here after every week of controversy, the place Bhaker wasn’t initially nominated.
India’s Manu Bhaker through the 25m Pistol Ladies’s Ultimate occasion on the 2024 Summer season Olympics.(PTI)
The 2-time Paris Olympics 2024 bronze medallist later accepted that it was a attainable lapse on her half which led to her being neglected.
WFI chief on Manu Bhaker’s Khel Ratna controversy
Commenting on the controversy, Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) President Sanjay Singh slammed the process for initially ignoring Bhaker within the award nominations, accusing it of ‘favouritism’.
Talking to ANI, he mentioned, “The officials discuss who to award Bharat Ratna or Khel Ratna…You must have seen Manu Bhaker’s name was not there even after winning two medals and after the movement was started she did get included…Officials sit and try to include their favourite people in the list of Khel Ratna.”
Solely 22-years-old, Bhaker is already among the finest in Indian capturing historical past. Apart from her two Olympic medals, she has seven Asian video games and Asian C’ships medals, and 21 medals on the World Championships and World Cup. In Paris, she grew to become the primary Indian lady shooter to win an Olympics medal by claiming bronze within the 10m pistol occasion. Then she clinched bronze within the 10m pistol combined group occasion, changing into the primary Indian to win two medals in a single Olympic Video games.
The opposite Khel Ratna recipients are D Gukesh, Haranpreet Singh and para-athlete Praveen Kumar. They’ll obtain their awards from the President of India throughout a ceremony on the Rashtrapati Bhavan on January 17, in response to experiences.
Bhaker made her Olympic debut at Tokyo 2020, however confronted disappointment and in addition had a pistol malfunction controversy. She secured Paris 2024 quota place for India by coming fifth within the 25m pistol occasion on the 2023 Asian Taking pictures C’ship. She can also be a gold medallist within the ladies’s 10m air pistol occasion on the Buenos Aires 2018 Youth Olympics.
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