Rakesh Manpat was ranked third behind Gagan Narang and Abhinav Bindra at the Common Wealth Games Trials 2010.

[3][4] At the 2010 World Championships at Zagreb, Rakesh Manpat represented India in all three rifle events.

In the 50 Meter 3 positions event, he scored a 1160 and set a Junior Indian National Record, ranking 5th in the world.

In 2016, he won a gold medal in the 3rd match of 39th InterShoot International Shooting Competition in the Netherlands,[5][6] ahead of two Olympic and World Champions.

[7] Rakesh was born to father Late Manpat Krishna Murthy and mother Narsimha Srinivas Vijaya in Bangalore on 7 May 1991.