After creating history in the Paris Olympics with a bronze medal, India's ace shooter Manu Bhaker is on the brink of another rare achievement. 

Manu could create a bigger history on Tuesday if she and her partner Sarabjot Singh could earn India another bronze medal in the mixed team 10m air pistol final. 

If Manu does go on to bag another bronze medal, she would become the first athlete from Independent India to win two medals in the same Olympic Games. 

The only Indian athlete to have done so far is Norman Pritchard. He won two silver medals in athletics during the 1900 Games when India was under British rule. After Pritchard, no Indian athlete has managed to win two medals in a single campaign.

However, there are a couple of Indian athletes who have won two medals in the Olympic Games cumulatively in their career. They are Sushil Kumar (wrestling) and PV Sindhu (badminton). Sushil bagged a bronze medal at the Beijing 2008 games before earning a silver medal at London 2012. Shuttler Sindhu won silver in the Rio Olympics, after being beaten by Spain's Carolina Marin in the final. It was the first time that India had won a silver medal in Olympic badminton. Sindh later won bronze at Tokyo 2020.

Bhaker's case is quite different from Shushil and Sindhu's as she could become the first Indian post-independence to bag two medals from the same Olympic Games.