Paris: The eighth day of Olympics 2024 was filled with disappointment for India when taking pictures’s ‘Miracle Woman’ Manu Bhaker missed a hat-trick of medals by a slender margin, whereas with the defeat of Deepika Kumari and Bhajan Kaur, India’s marketing campaign in archery ended with no medal. Friday was a day filled with unparalleled success for India when badminton star Lakshya Sen created historical past by reaching the lads’s singles semi-finals. On the similar time, the Indian hockey group defeated Australia after 52 years within the Olympics, elevating hopes of a greater coloured medal in Paris after Tokyo’s bronze. Nonetheless, India didn’t have many occasions on Saturday, the eighth day of the Olympics. All eyes have been on Manu Bhaker and the ladies archers, however luck didn’t favor them.
Manu missed a hat-trick of medals
Manu Bhaker’s dream of scoring a hat-trick of medals within the Olympics couldn’t be fulfilled after she misplaced to a Hungarian participant within the shoot-off for the bronze medal within the 25m sports activities pistol. Within the shut last of eight shooters, Manu gave her all and was additionally on the prime place for a while, however couldn’t keep her consistency. Nonetheless, this 22-year-old participant has already created historical past by profitable two bronze medals in girls’s 10m air pistol and combined group 10m air pistol together with Sarabjot Singh.
She is the primary Indian to win two medals in the identical Olympics. Manu was collectively third with Hungary’s Veronica Main with 28 factors after the primary eight sequence within the last of 10 sequence of 5 photographs every. After this, within the shoot-off, Manu might hit solely three out of 5 targets whereas Main received the bronze medal with 4 correct photographs. She missed the bronze medal by a detailed margin and joined the checklist of shooters like Jaideep Karmakar (males’s 50m rifle inclined, 2012 London), Abhinav Bindra (males’s 10m air rifle, 2016 Rio) and Arjun Babuta (10m air rifle, 2024 Paris Olympics).
Maheshwari Chauhan out of ladies’s skeet occasion
Indian shooter Maheshwari Chauhan stays within the race to make it to the ultimate with an eighth place on the primary day of qualification for the ladies’s skeet occasion, whereas Anantjit Singh Naruka was eradicated from the lads’s skeet occasion after a poor efficiency for the second consecutive day. Maheshwari is in eighth place after the primary day’s qualification spherical, scoring a complete of 71 factors with 23, 24 and 24 factors in three sequence of 25 photographs every and stays within the race to make it to the ultimate of the highest six shooters.
Maheshwari missed two targets within the first sequence however made a comeback by lacking only one goal every within the subsequent two sequence. One other Indian taking part on this occasion, Reza Dhillon, is ranked twenty fifth amongst 29 shooters with 66 factors from 21, 22 and 23 factors and his possibilities of making it to the finals are very slim. The final two sequence of the five-series qualification will likely be held on Sunday.
Deepika’s Olympic marketing campaign disappointing once more
Deepika Kumari, who’s taking part in her fourth Olympics, needed to face defeat in opposition to Nam Suhyeon of South Korea within the quarter-finals of the ladies’s singles archery occasion regardless of taking the lead twice, whereas younger Bhajan Kaur additionally misplaced within the pre-quarterfinals, persevering with India’s 36-year look forward to an archery medal on the Olympics. India’s twenty third seed Deepika held a 4-2 lead within the final eight match in opposition to second seed Suhyeon, the present Video games girls’s group gold medallist, however ultimately misplaced 4-6 (28-26, 25-28, 29-28, 27-29, 27-29), thus ending India’s archery marketing campaign with no medal as soon as once more.