Pistol ace Manu Bhaker is the toast of the nation after she gained two bronze medals on the Paris Olympics to create historical past as the primary lady shooter to complete on the Video games podium and first athlete post-independence to win two medals for India in the identical version of the Olympic Video games.
On a break since she led the Indian contingent because the flagbearer, together with hockey icon PR Sreejesh, on the closing ceremony in Paris, the 22-year-old Manu is being seen virtually at each place, together with on the duvet of the most recent version of the journal ‘Cosmopolitan’.
And in an interplay with the journal, she was requested to call a sports activities individual she would wish to spend a day with.
“Possibly I will identify a couple of of my favourites. Usain Bolt (legendary Jamaican runner) is one in every of them. I’ve learn his ebook so many instances and I’ve identified his journey as properly. I’ve watched so lots of his interviews too,” she mentioned about her favorite among the many worldwide sports activities stars.
Coming to sports activities personalities in India, Manu’s checklist consists of the nation’s three cricket icons.
“After which, in India, cricketers Sachin Tendulkar, (MS) Dhoni sir, and Virat Kohli. It could be an honour to spend even an hour with any of them,” Manu instructed Cosmopolitan.
Manu’s excellent feat on the Paris Video games included a bronze medal within the girls’s 10m air pistol occasion and one other bronze within the air pistol blended group occasion, partnering Sarabjot Singh.
The taking pictures contingent contributed three of the six medals India gained in Paris, with Swapnil Kusale’s bronze in males’s 50m 3 Positions occasion being the third.
Javelin-thrower Neeraj Chopra (silver), wrestler Aman Sehrawat (bronze) and males’s hockey group (bronze) had been the opposite medal winners for India.
On a break since she led the Indian contingent because the flagbearer, together with hockey icon PR Sreejesh, on the closing ceremony in Paris, the 22-year-old Manu is being seen virtually at each place, together with on the duvet of the most recent version of the journal ‘Cosmopolitan’.
And in an interplay with the journal, she was requested to call a sports activities individual she would wish to spend a day with.
“Possibly I will identify a couple of of my favourites. Usain Bolt (legendary Jamaican runner) is one in every of them. I’ve learn his ebook so many instances and I’ve identified his journey as properly. I’ve watched so lots of his interviews too,” she mentioned about her favorite among the many worldwide sports activities stars.
Coming to sports activities personalities in India, Manu’s checklist consists of the nation’s three cricket icons.
“After which, in India, cricketers Sachin Tendulkar, (MS) Dhoni sir, and Virat Kohli. It could be an honour to spend even an hour with any of them,” Manu instructed Cosmopolitan.
Manu’s excellent feat on the Paris Video games included a bronze medal within the girls’s 10m air pistol occasion and one other bronze within the air pistol blended group occasion, partnering Sarabjot Singh.
The taking pictures contingent contributed three of the six medals India gained in Paris, with Swapnil Kusale’s bronze in males’s 50m 3 Positions occasion being the third.
Javelin-thrower Neeraj Chopra (silver), wrestler Aman Sehrawat (bronze) and males’s hockey group (bronze) had been the opposite medal winners for India.
