Paris Olympics 2024 Day 5 Highlights: Prannoy advances to R16; Lovlina Borgohain wins in boxing; Deepika qualifies to1/8 elimination round in archery
Men's 50m 3 Positions Rifle qualification
Still plenty of time to catch up for the Indians
Kusale stays in top 8 after kneeling round Aishwary just oustide
Why is it called Rifle 3 Position's ??
The shooters will fire equal number of shots fired from the Kneeling, Prone and Standing positions. In qualification, shooters have to take three series of shots all three positions. But the tough part is that the time between each position is fixed.
50m Rifle 3 Positions Men's Qualification: Kneeling beings!!
APS Tomar | 8th | 46 shots left
Swapnil Kusale | 13th | 47 shots left
Good start from Kusale and Aishwary in 50M RIFLE 3 qualification
Credits: Olympics.com
Elsewhere... It's Day 2 of Trap shooting women's qualification
Shreyasi Singh and Rajeshwari Kumari started their practice rounds. They will be hoping to have a good start with the remaining rounds left
Rules of 50m 3 Positions qualification round
Shooters will shoot 40 shots each.
Each position at a target 50 metres away.
Top 8 will qualify.
Aishwary was part of the Tokyo Olympics and will face tough competition this time around
Men's 50m rifle 3 position qualifications underway!!!!
Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar and Swapnil Kusale in action
Indian contingents are in action across various sports. But no medal events scheduled for today so far, but important games which decides the athletes knockout stage qualification will take place.