Indian shooter Swapnil Kusale on Wednesday certified for the ultimate of the lads’s 50m rifle three positions occasion on the Paris Olympics 2024, whereas the nation’s gamers entered the subsequent spherical in badminton, archery, desk tennis and boxing occasions. Let’s have a look at how India carried out during which sports activities on the fifth day, Wednesday
Whereas Kusale certified for the ultimate, Aishwarya Pratap Singh Tomar missed out. Kusale completed seventh within the qualifying spherical with a rating of 590. On the similar time, Aishwarya Pratap completed eleventh with a rating of 589. Solely the highest eight shooters qualify for the ultimate. The ultimate of the occasion shall be performed on Thursday.
Tokyo Olympic bronze medalist Lovlina Borgohain entered the quarter-finals by defeating Norway’s Sunniva Hofstad 50 in her first match within the 75 kg weight class. Lovlina received the bronze medal within the 69 kg class in Tokyo. She is only one win away from profitable a medal within the second consecutive Olympics and attaining an unprecedented feat in Indian boxing. Nonetheless, Preeti Pawar needed to face defeat within the pre-quarterfinals.
Indian badminton stars Lakshya Sen and PV Sindhu received their respective matches brilliantly and entered the singles pre-quarterfinals. Two-time Olympic medalist Sindhu defeated Estonia’s Kristin Kuba in a one-sided match that lasted 33 minutes. On the similar time, World Championship 2021 bronze medalist Lakshya, 23, of Almora defeated world quantity 4 participant Jonathan Christie of Indonesia in 50 minutes.
India’s skilled archer Deepika Kumari entered the pre-quarterfinals of the ladies’s particular person class by profitable two consecutive matches. A number of days in the past, the Indian ladies’s archery group misplaced to the Netherlands within the quarter-finals, during which Deepika’s efficiency was closely criticized. Now she’s going to face Germany’s Michelle Kroppen within the pre-quarterfinals.
Sreeja Akula defeated Singapore’s Jian Zheng 42 factors in a tricky match of 51 minutes to make it to the pre-quarterfinals of the desk tennis ladies’s singles occasion. Sreeja registered a spectacular victory on her twenty sixth birthday. Sreeja will now face China’s primary participant Solar Yingsha.
India’s Anush Aggarwal missed out on qualifying for the finals within the particular person dressage of the Olympic equestrian occasion, ending ninth in his group with 66.444 factors. He’s the primary Indian to take part in dressage on the Olympics.
India’s Manika Batra was eradicated within the pre-quarterfinals of the Paris Olympics desk tennis ladies’s singles occasion after shedding to Japan’s Miyu Hirano 14 factors.
India’s skilled archer Tarundeep Roy couldn’t overcome the problem of England’s Tom Corridor within the final 64 spherical of the lads’s singles of Paris Olympics 2024 on Wednesday. Tarundeep needed to shoot 10 factors in his final try to take the match right into a shoot-off however he managed solely 9 factors, ending the set in a tie and Corridor took a decisive lead.