Delhi, India, August 25, 2024: India’s Paris 2024 Olympic Games hero Manu Bhaker is hitting the target away from the shooting range, too.
The 22-year-old double bronze medallist features on the cover of Cosmopolitan India and provides details of her life in an exclusive interview with the global fashion and trends magazine.
Under the headline, “Manu Bhaker – A great sport and India’s shooting star”, the pride of Haryana is given the full Cosmopolitan treatment in a lifestyle feature.
“What do you say to a young Olympic medallist who has made history—and is intentional in everything she sets her mind on—when you first meet her after her glorious win?” asks Cosmopolitan.
“Of course, congratulating Manu Bhaker, the professional shooter who is the first Indian woman to win two bronze medals—one in individual and the other in mixed—at the Olympics (Paris 2024), is the first rule of engagement.
“But it doesn’t seem enough, for you know she has inspired an entire generation on a global arena, as you watched her from afar and cheered for her along with your country women and men.”
Cosmopolitan India said all their staff “came out in awe” of Manu after their photo and interview session, which lasted one and a half hours.
“Open to the steady stream of ideas that was being shared with her, the chatty and incredibly charming Manu—despite her packed schedule and commitments that followed on a working Sunday—brought with her a calming energy on set. A far cry from the notion people have about Gen Z (who are over-stimulated by too much going on, all at once), Manu was receptive, mindful and unaffected by her epoch-making win in Paris.”
Manu won Olympic bronze medals in the women’s 10m air pistol and 10m air pistol mixed team at Paris 2024. Read the full interview on the link below.
