Last Updated on 06/08/2024 by wccexam Desk
Paris Olympics 2024 Day 10 Roundup: Badminton player Lakshya Sen lost the match after taking the lead for the second consecutive day and lost the chance to win the bronze medal, while the skeet mixed team of shooter Maheshwari Chauhan and Anant Jeet Singh Naruka also lost in the bronze medal match, due to which India did not get any medal on Monday in the Paris Olympic Games. The women’s table tennis team gave India a chance to celebrate by making it to the quarter-finals.
Lakshya, despite winning the first game and taking the lead in the second, lost in three games to Malaysia’s Lee Zii Jia in the bronze medal play-off but missed out on becoming the first Indian to win a medal in the men’s singles event.
Apart from this, a good news came for India from steeplechase. Avinash Sable has entered the final of 3000 meters steeplechase. He finished 5th in the heat-2 round and made it to the final. Now this final will be held on 7 August at 1:15 pm.
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Star shuttler Lakshya Sen lost in the bronze medal match
Like the semi-finals in badminton, in the bronze medal match too, world number 22 Lakshya Sen lost the lead and lost 21-13, 16-21, 11-21 against world number seven Lee in a match that lasted 71 minutes.
After winning the first game against Lee, Lakshya had an 8-3 lead in the second game, but then he lost nine consecutive points to give the Malaysian player a chance to make a comeback and he never looked back. This is Commonwealth Games gold medallist Lakshya’s second defeat in six matches against Lee.
With this defeat, Lakshya also missed becoming the third Indian badminton player to win an Olympic medal after Saina Nehwal (bronze at London Olympics 2012) and PV Sindhu (silver at Rio Olympics 2016 and bronze at Tokyo Olympics 2020).
Maheshwari and Naruka also won bronze medals lost in the match against
Maheshwari and Naruka lost the bronze medal match of the skeet mixed team event to the Chinese pair of Yiting Jiang and Liu Jianlin by one point. The Indian pair lost 43-44 in the final match of 48 shots.
Maheshwari missed three of her 24 shots, while Naruka missed two. China’s Yiting missed four shots, but their male counterpart Jianlin made up for it by hitting all his shots accurately.
🇮🇳 Result Update: #badminton Men’s Singles Bronze Medal Match👇
So close, yet so far
Our star shuttler Lakshya Sen suffered a heartbreak in his first medal match #Olympics,
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Earlier in the qualification, the Indian pair had qualified for the bronze medal match by scoring 146. The Indian pair was in joint second place with 49 points after the first stage of qualification. In the first round, Naruka scored 25 out of 25 and Maheshwari scored 24 points.
In the second round, Maheshwari scored 25 points, but Naruka missed the second and fifth series and could only score 23 points. In the third round, Maheshwari scored 25 and Naruka scored 24 points. Lakshya and Maheshwari and Naruka joined the list of shooters Manu Bhaker, Arjun Babuta and mixed pair of archers Dheeraj Bommadevara and Ankita Bhakat in the current games who missed the medal by finishing fourth.
Women’s table tennis team reached the quarter finals
Led by star player Manika Batra, India entered the quarterfinals of the women’s table tennis team event by defeating higher ranked Romania 3-2 in a thrilling match. India was leading 2-0, but Romania made a comeback and equalized the score at 2-2, but Manika won the decisive match and took the team to the last eight.
Sreeja Akula and Archana Kamat started the competition with a 11-9, 12-10, 11-7 win over Edina Diaconu and Elizabeta Samara in the doubles match, after which Manika defeated higher ranked Bernadette Jox 11-5, 11-7, 11-7 to give 11th seeded India a 2-0 lead against their fourth seeded opponents. In the second singles, Sreeja lost to European champion Samara 2-3 (11-8 4-11 11-7 6-11 8-11).
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After Sreeja’s defeat, Archana and Bernadette competed. Bernadette won the first game 11-5, but the Indian player equalized by winning the second game 11-8. Bernadette won the next two games 11-7, 11-9 to win the match and level the match 2-2. After this, Manika defeated Edina 3-0 (11-5, 11-9, 11-9) to give India a place in the last eight.
Kiran finished 7th in 400m heat, will participate in repechage
Kiran Pahal failed to qualify automatically for the semi-finals in the women’s 400m after finishing seventh in her heat race. She will now run in the repechage round. Kiran, who is celebrating her 24th birthday, clocked 52.51 seconds, which is worse than her season’s personal best of 50.92 seconds.
The top three in each of the six heats advance to the semi-finals, while all others except DNS (did not start), DNF (did not finish) and DQ (disqualified) will take part in the repechage round on Tuesday.
Nisha lost in the quarter finals in women’s wrestling
Indian wrestler Nisha lost 8-10 to North Korea’s Pak Sol Gum after getting injured in the quarter-finals of the women’s 68 kg wrestling match. When there was about a minute left in the match, Nisha was leading 8-2 but after that she suffered an injury in her right hand and taking advantage of this, the North Korean player was able to score eight more points and register a win.
Nisha started by defeating Ukraine’s Tetiana Sova 6-4 in the last 16 match. Nisha was trailing behind Tetiana initially, but after equalizing at 4-4, she pushed Tetiana off the mat in the last few seconds and won by scoring two points. Nisha will now have to wait to see if she gets a chance to challenge for the bronze medal through the repechage. If Pak Sol Game reaches the final, Nisha will go to the repechage round.
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