Manu Bhaker –– India’S Youngest Gold Medalist Apa, Ho Gaya"
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F 1 teaspoon turmeric So take some pakora and eat it happily. Manu Bhaker –– India’s Youngest Gold Medalist apa, ho gaya". That's all Manu Bhaker tells her father after the final of shot, Zavala had the gold within her reach. But Bhaker was determined. a tournament, through a WhatsApp message. And Ramkishen Bhaker Her final shot was 10.7, while Zavala could only manage an 8.8. Pknows its gold for his 16-year-old daughter. "I was really happy that I was going to win silver," Bhaker says. "I think not Her messages may be short, but Bhaker's strides in the world of competi knowing the other shooters and their achievements actually helped me." tive pistol shooting are not. Her books and Morini pistol aren't the only things Bhaker juggles. There's The teenager who finished 49th at the International Shooting Sport also her conflicting personality on and off the range. "My daughter is Federation (ISSF) Junior World Cup last year has won it this year. Not extremely talkative," asserts her father. once but twice in four days. "Restless and curious. She always has plenty of questions for her coaches. Bhaker, with partner Anmol Jain, secured the gold medal in the 10m air pis So it's the coaches who are always on their toes when Manu is around." On tol mixed team final at the ISSF Junior World Cup in Sydney. Bhaker also the range, looking at the target through the eyepiece, she is a different per won an individual gold in the women's 10 m air pistol event. son. Her feet are still, face devoid of any expression. The teenager from Goria village in Haryana's Jhajjar District is going She has made it to the squad for the Commonwealth Games to be held in through a purple patch. Earlier this month, she won two gold medals in the April and doesn't want to think beyond that at this point. 10 m air pistol individual and mixed team events at her maiden senior World Uprising Career Cup in Mexico, becoming the youngest Indian to win a gold medal at the When Manu started taking the shooting very seriously at the age of 14, an ISSF World Shooting Championships. incident made her more determined to be on the top in shooting field. Manu Celebrations haven't stopped in Goria, especially at the Universal Senior applied for a Pistol license to order a shooting gun from foreign but her Secondary School, where Bhaker honed her skills before taking the shoot request was canceled. It was then Manu worked harder and started her career ing world by storm. "My wife has been distributing sweets every day at the by winning three gold medals in 2016 in Mahendragarh. This was followed by school from the day Manu won the first gold medal," Ramkishen Bhaker some of the wonderful performances from her side. says over the phone. "Friends who shoot with her in school are having their She clinched two gold medals at the Junior and Youth level at the XVII own party too." Kumar Surendra Singh Memorial Shooting Championship in New Delhi. Shooting wasn't Bhaker's first choice of sport-in fact, it comes way down a She also won the silver in the Youth Olympic Games quota at the 10th Asian long list. "I've done boxing, skating, played cricket, table tennis, kabaddi, Airgun Championship in Wako city, Japan. karate and Thang Ta (a Manipuri martial art) before this," Bhaker says Manu won gold medals with new national records in all three categories - over the phone. women, junior and youth - of the 10m Air Pistol at the 61st National She gets fiercely competitive. "I got competitive about shooting, too, when I Shooting Championship in Thiruvananthapuram. tried it at school in 2016." And in her first school-level competition shortly She also broke the previous national record of 240.8 under Sidhu's name by after that, she had three podium finishes. making the new final national record of 242.3. It's been a spectacular journey for India's youngest World Cup gold medal Manu has been coached by Jaspal Rana and under his guidance, she has won list. Bhaker made shooting her only target: she took extra evening classes two gold medals including one in partnership with Om Prakash Mitharval in at school to make up for what she'd missed, even carrying her books to ISSF World Cup in Mexico's Guadalajara in starting in 2018. national camps. In 2019, Manu with Saurabh Chaudhary won gold medal in 10m air pistol Her inexperience, Bhaker says, gives her an edge. In the 10m air pistol final mixed team event at ISSF World cup. in Guadalajara, Mexico, the Class XI student was up against local favourite In 2019, Bhaker qualified in 10 Meter pistol event for Tokyo Olympics 2020. Alejandra Zavala, a two-time World Cup gold medallist who also finished Manu was a state level champion in skating and won medals in athletics too. fourth at the 2016 Rio Olympics. With a 1.3 point lead going into the final She won gold in Tang Ta Nationals and has national level medal in Karate..