NEW DELHI: India’s star pistol shooter Manu Bhaker is anticipated to have her two Paris Olympics bronze medals changed with similar fashions, as she is among the many rising variety of athletes, together with wrestler Aman Sehrawat, who’ve raised considerations about their medals deteriorating.
A number of athletes worldwide have just lately shared photos of their worn-out medals on social media.
It’s understood that the color of Bhaker’s medals has “come off” and that they “have been in that state” for a substantial time.
Equally, Aman’s bronze medal has proven indicators of fading, although the wrestler has but to file a proper criticism.
Bhaker made historical past on the Paris 2024 Olympics as the primary Indian post-Independence to win two medals in a single version of the Video games. She opened India’s medal tally with a bronze within the particular person 10m air pistol occasion, changing into the primary Indian markswoman to realize this feat. She later partnered with Sarabjot Singh to assert the bronze within the 10m air pistol blended workforce occasion.
Aman, on his Olympic debut, grew to become the youngest Indian medalist on the Summer season Video games by securing bronze within the males’s 57 kg freestyle wrestling class.
The Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC) has confirmed that every one broken medals shall be systematically changed by Monnaie de Paris, the French state mint, with similar engravings because the originals.
The medals, which weigh 450 grams every, characteristic an 18-gram iron piece from the Eiffel Tower embedded at their centre.
The Monnaie de Paris, a state-owned entity answerable for minting France’s forex, collaborated with luxurious jeweller Chaumet to design the 5,084 gold, silver, and bronze medals for the Paris 2024 Olympics.
The replacements are anticipated to be delivered within the coming weeks, because the Paris Olympics Organising Committee works carefully with the mint to deal with the problem.
