The sixth day of the Paris Olympics belonged to Indian shooter Swapnil Kusale, who received the bronze medal within the males’s 50m rifle three positions. Then again, PV Sindhu, Satvik-Chirag pair had been eradicated after shedding, whereas Lakshya Sen defeated compatriot Prannoy to make it to the quarter-finals. On the similar time, boxer Nikhat needed to face defeat within the spherical of 16. Indian athletes Vikas Singh, Paramjit Singh Bisht, Akashdeep Singh needed to face defeat within the males’s 20 km racewalk. Gaganjeet Bhullar, Shubhankar Sharma gave a combined efficiency in golf. Indian girls shooters additionally couldn’t present any wonders on the sixth day of Paris.
Swapnil received the third medal
Indian shooter Swapnil Kusale stored his focus and made an ideal comeback and received the nation its first bronze medal within the males’s 50m rifle three positions on the Olympics. Swapnil, who was seventh within the qualification, scored 451.4 within the ultimate of eight shooters and secured third place. At one level he was in sixth place after which he secured third place. That is India’s third bronze on the Paris Olympics. Earlier, Manu Bhaker had received bronze within the girls’s 10m air pistol and 10m air pistol combined workforce class with Sarabjot Singh. For the primary time in Olympic historical past, India has received three medals in capturing at a single Olympics. China’s Liu Yukun (463.6) received the gold and Ukraine’s Serhiy Kulish (461.3) received the silver medal.
Kusale was in fourth place after the primary standing collection. His first shot in kneeling was 9.6 however he made an ideal comeback. After this, he reached second place by scoring 10.6 and 10.3, however the subsequent two photographs had been 9.1 and 10.1, which introduced him to fourth place. Then he reached third place by scoring 10.3 and remained there until the tip. He was in sixth place after the kneeling place however got here to fifth place after inclined. Kusale, who has been enjoying internationally for the final 12 years, needed to await 12 years for his Olympic debut.
PV Sindhu loses in pre-quarterfinals
PV Sindhu’s dream of turning into the primary Indian to win a person medal in three consecutive Olympics additionally bought shattered. Tenth seed Sindhu needed to face defeat 19-21, 14-21 towards the sixth seed participant of China in a match that lasted 56 minutes.
Rio Olympics 2016 silver and Tokyo Olympics 2020 bronze medalist Sindhu has misplaced her twelfth match in 21 matches towards Bing Jiao. After this defeat, PV Sindhu has not been capable of make it to the quarterfinals.
With this, Bing Jiao additionally avenged her defeat towards the Indian participant within the bronze medal match on the Tokyo Olympics. Sindhu received the bronze medal by defeating Bing Jiao on August 1 within the bronze medal match of Tokyo Olympics 2020.
Lakshya Sen reaches quarterfinals
Lakshya Sen entered the quarterfinals by defeating compatriot Indian HS Prannoy in straight video games in a one-sided match within the pre-quarterfinals of the badminton males’s singles occasion of the Paris Olympics.
Lakshya, Commonwealth Video games gold medalist and world quantity 24, defeated thirtieth ranked participant Prannoy 21-12, 21-6 in a final 16 match that lasted 39 minutes. Lakshya is the third Indian participant to make it to the Olympic badminton males’s singles quarterfinals. That is his fifth win in eight matches towards Prannoy.
Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty misplaced
The Indian pair of Asian Video games champions and medal favourites Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty had been knocked out of the lads’s doubles occasion of Paris Olympics after shedding to the Malaysian pair of Aaron Chia and Soh Wooi Yik regardless of successful the primary recreation within the quarter-finals.
Commonwealth Video games champions and world quantity 5 Satwik and Chirag misplaced 21-13, 14-21, 16-21 to world quantity seven Chia and Soh pair in a 64-minute match. That is the Indian pair’s ninth defeat in 12 matches towards Tokyo Olympics bronze medallists Chia and Soh.
Nikhat’s dream shattered with defeat
Two-time world champion Nikhat Zareen’s dream of successful a medal on the Paris Olympics was shattered. Nikhat needed to face a one-sided defeat of 0-5 within the opening spherical of the ladies’s 50 kg class from Asian Video games gold medalist Wu Yu of China. This was Nikhat’s first Olympics.
Nikhat, one in every of India’s strongest contenders for a medal, was underneath strain from the primary spherical itself. Nikhat tried to counter-attack however failed. Within the second spherical, Nikhat landed some straight punches however Yu scored factors by punching her on the face. Nikhat had no reply to Yu’s agility within the third spherical as nicely.
India disillusioned in 20 km race stroll
India has confronted disappointment within the males’s 20 km race stroll on the Paris Olympics. Indian runner Vikas Singh completed thirtieth and Paramjeet Singh Bisht completed thirty seventh. Vikas was the quickest among the many three Indian athletes who ran on this occasion, he clocked 1:22:36.