Paris Olympics 2024 Day 7 Roundup: The biggest Maha Kumbh of sports, Olympic Games, is being held in Paris this time. The seventh day (2 August) of Paris Olympics 2024 was good for India. Indian players performed brilliantly on Friday. In shooting, star shooter Manu Bhaker managed to reach the final of the Women’s 25 meter pistol. Manu has already won two medals in the Paris Olympics and now she would like to make a hat-trick by winning a medal in this event.
Lakshya Sen gave a memorable performance in badminton. The men’s hockey team defeated Australia in the Olympic Games after 52 years. However, Ankita Bhakat and Dheeraj Bommadevara missed out on winning medals in archery. Let’s know in which games Indian players won on the seventh day and in which events they faced disappointment…
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Shooting: Manu Bhaker qualified for the final of the 25m women’s pistol event in shooting, moving towards an unprecedented third medal for India at the Paris Olympic Games, but Isha Singh was eliminated from the competition. Anantjit Singh Naruka is ranked 26th among 30 shooters after a poor start on the first day of the men’s skeet qualification. Manu also won a bronze medal in the mixed team category along with Sarabjot Singh after winning a bronze medal in the individual 10m air pistol at the Paris Games. She became the first Indian to win two medals in the same Olympics.
Manu entered the finals by securing second place in the qualification by scoring a total of 590 points with 294 points in precision and 296 points in rapid. Manu scored 97, 98 and 99 points respectively in three series of 10 marks each in the precision round. In the rapid round, she scored 100, 98 and 98 points in three series. Isha scored 291 points in precision and 290 points in rapid, scoring a total of 581 points and finished 18th and could not make it to the final of eight shooters. She made a strong comeback with 100 points after scoring 95 and 96 points in the first two series of precision, but could only score 97, 96 and 97 points in the rapid round. The final of this event will be played today (August 3).
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Badminton: Indian Badminton Players Lakshya Sen created history. Lakshya reached the semi-finals of Men’s Singles. Lakshya defeated Chou Tien Chen of Chinese Taipei 19-21, 21-15, 21-12. Lakshya is the first Indian male shuttler to reach the semi-finals of this event. Lakshya lost the first game, but he made a comeback in the second. Then Lakshya won the decisive game and confirmed his place in the semi-finals. Tien could not counter Lakshya’s rapid smashes and backhand shots. Lakshya will play his semi-final match on August 4.
Hockey: On the strength of captain Harmanpreet Singh’s two goals and PR Sreejesh’s amazing goalkeeping, India defeated Australia in the Olympics after 52 years, winning 3-2 over this legendary opponent in the last group match. India last defeated Australia in the Olympics in men’s hockey in the 1972 Munich Games. At the same time, the group match with Australia was drawn 2-2 in the Sydney Olympics 2000. Australia won 7-1 over India in the group match in Tokyo Olympics 2021.
While Sreejesh acted like a true ‘wall’ and saved numerous goals for Tokyo Olympics bronze medallist India, Harmanpreet, who has been scoring goals in every match, maintained that trend. At the same time, defender Jarmanpreet Singh and forward Abhishek, who are playing Olympics for the first time, played hockey fearlessly without getting distracted by the dominance of the opponent. For India, Abhishek scored in the 12th minute, Harmanpreet in the 13th and 32nd minutes. For Australia, Craig Thomas scored in the 25th and Blake Govers in the 55th minute.
This victory will definitely heal the wounds of Indian fans who lost 8-0 in the final of Delhi Commonwealth Games 2010 and 7-0 in the final of Birmingham Commonwealth Games. Before this match, India had won only three out of 11 matches against Australia in the Olympics (1960 Rome quarter-final, 1964 Tokyo semi-final and 1972 Munich group match), while Australia won six and played two draws. The Indian team finished second after Belgium in the pool stage with three wins, one draw and one loss and will face Great Britain in the quarter-finals.
Archery: India’s Dheeraj Bommadevara and Ankita Bhakat missed out on a medal in mixed doubles archery on Friday, losing 6-2 to the US pair of Casey Kaufhold and Brady Ellison in the bronze medal match. The fifth seeded pair of Dheeraj and Ankita had reached the bronze medal match after losing 2-6 to top seeded South Korean pair of Kim Woojin and Lim Sihyeon despite winning the first set in the semi-finals.
They did not have a good start against the American pair, in which they lost the first two sets. The Indian archers raised hopes of a comeback by winning the third set, but the pair of Casey and Brady did not give them any chance and won the bronze medal by 38-37, 37-35, 34-38, 37-35. Earlier, Dheeraj and Ankita had to face defeat from the South Korean pair by 38-36, 35-38, 36-38, 38-39. Dheeraj and Ankita defeated the 13th seeded Spanish pair of Pablo Gonzales and Ilia Canales 5-3 in the quarter-finals. The Indian pair won by 38-37, 38-38, 36-37, 37-36.
Judo: Indian judo player Tulika Mann was eliminated in the first round of the women’s over 78 kg event on Friday after losing to London Olympics champion Idelis Ortiz of Cuba. With this, the Indian challenge in this event ended. 22-year-old Tulika from Delhi, a silver medalist at the Commonwealth Games 2022, lost 0-10 by ippon against the Cuban player. The Cuban player has four Olympic medals to her name, including one gold, two silver and one bronze medal. Tulika could last only 28 seconds against Ortiz. With Tulika’s defeat, India’s campaign in judo ended as she was the only player to represent India in this competition at the Paris Games.
Rowing: Balraj Panwar finished fifth in the Final D on Friday and finished 23rd in the men’s single sculls event at the Paris Olympics. 25-year-old Balraj from Haryana clocked 7 minutes 2.37 seconds in Final D, which is his best performance in the current games. However, this was not a medal round. Balraj, India’s only participant in the Paris Olympics’ rowing event, finished fifth in the quarter heat race. Balraj made it to the quarter finals by finishing second in the repechage round race on Sunday. He reached the repechage by finishing fourth in the first round heat on Saturday.
Golf: Shubhankar Sharma and Gaganjeet Bhullar were placed 25th and 52nd respectively after the first two rounds. Both Shubhankar and Gaganjeet shot 2 under 69 in the second round. Shubhankar shot a combined score of 3 under 139 in both rounds, while Gaganjeet scored 2 over 144. They will now play in the third round, which will begin on August 3 at 12:30 pm.
Sail Sailing: Netra Kumanan is participating in the Women’s Dinghy event of sailing. Netra’s fourth race was postponed due to bad weather. This race will be held on 3, 4 and 5 i.e. on 3 August. Currently, Netra is in 11th place with 48 points. On the other hand, in the Men’s Dinghy event of sailing, India’s Vishnu Saravanan finished 20th and 19th respectively in his third and fourth races. Vishnu is currently in 22nd place with 83 points. His 5th and 6th races will be held on 3 August from 3:50 pm Indian time.
Athletics: India’s Parul Chaudhary took 15:10.68 in the women’s 5000 meter race and finished 14th in heat-2. Parul missed out on a place in the final. Ankita Dhyani finished 20th in heat-1 with a time of 16:19.38. Ankita also could not reach the final. Eight players from each heat qualified for the final. On the other hand, Tajinder Pal could not qualify for the final in the men’s shot put event.
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