Manu Bhaker falls agonisingly short of LA quota berth
New Delhi, Nov. 11 -- The Indian 25m women's pistol team won gold at the ISSF World Championships in Doha but that provided little consolation as Manu Bhaker and Esha Singh, the two finalists, failed to secure an LA Olympic quota place.
Manu came agonisingly close to winning the quota and a medal for India after multiple shoot-offs in a high quality final, but finished fourth. The first three shooters - Olympic champion Jin Yang of Korea, Thu Vinh Trinh of Vietnam and Yueyue Zhang of China - bagged the three quota spots.
Double Paris Olympics medallist Manu had earlier finished fifth in air pistol, missing the quota in that event too. India have so far won just one Olympic quota, which came in men's 10m air pistol through Jaypal Malviya.
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