Paris Paralympics 2024: Manish Narwal Secures Silver In Men’s 10m Air Pistol

New Delhi: Manish Narwal secured a silver medal inside the guys’s 10m air pistol tournament at the Paris Paralympics 2024 on Friday (August 30), adding to India’s sensible medal tally. With this fulfillment, Manish became fullyyt the sixth Indian athlete in heritage to win more desirable than one medals at the Summer Paralympic Games, cementing his location amongst India’s most executed Paralympians.

Manish Narwal, 23-year-ancient bought the silver medal inside the guys’s 10m air pistol SH1 final at Chateauroux with a whole of 234.9 add-ons. Formerly, Avani Lekhara had taken gold and Mona Agarwal bronze inside the ladies’s 10m air rifle tournament as India commenced its medal stopover at the seventeenth Summer Paralympic Games on Friday.

Jeongdu Jo took the gold of South Korea with a high ranking of 237.Four, whilst China’s Chao Yang bought bronze as Manish Narwal recovered from a bad start-shooting 8.8 on his first-to emerge as with silver inside the guys’s 10m air pistol SH1 tournament.

Appropriate simply by the true shoot-off for gold, Manish Narwal attempted an incredibly very big 8.9, alternatively South Korea’s Jeongdu Jo despatched the group into tizzy with an proper 10.8 to surge ahead. Manish, alternatively, applied powerful, scoring 9.9 in his final strive in opposition to Jeongdu’s 8.8, alternatively wondering the validated reality that the Indian shooter commenced poorly, the silver medal changed into given out for his familiar effort.

Manish Narwal’s silver took Group India into the pinnacle 10 of the medal standings at the Paris Paralympics 2024. India leaped earlier than nations like Japan and South Korea to take the ninth spot inside the medal tally with a categorical hope of securing a old pinnacle-10 finish at the Games.