NEW DELHI: Shooter Swapnil Kusale, who competed in the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris and earned a bronze medal, was met with a hero's welcome on Thursday upon his arrival in Pune, Maharashtra. Last week, Kusale won the first-ever Olympic bronze in the 50-meter rifle three-position competition.
He landed at the Pune international airport in the morning, to the sound of traditional dhol-tasha drums being banged. Kusale, who is from Kolhapur in western Maharashtra, then went to the well-known Shrimant Dagdusheth Halwai Ganapati temple in the center of the city and prayed there.
