Paris Olympics 2024 Day 6 Highlights: Swapnil hands India its 3rd medal, Satwik-Chirag and PV Sindhu go down, Lakshya advances
PV Sindhu lost to China's Jiao (19-21, 14-21)
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CHENNAI: Day 6 of the Paris Olympics 2024 and it was once again the Indian shooters who shine with Swapnil Kusale winning bronze in the men’s 50m rifle 3 position. He handed India its third overall medal and its first medal in Rifle 3P events
Indian archer Pravin Jadhav lost in three sets against China's Wenchao Kao (0 - 6)
The athletics event began today, but none of the Indian players managed to sneak into top 20 in both men and women’s 20km race walk.
Things went from bad to worse for India as the Indian Hockey team suffered its first loss of the ongoing Olympics at the hands of defending champion Belgium. India will be in action once again on Friday in its last group stage Pool B match.
Nikhat Zareen put up a fight but wasn't good enough to get past Chinese world number Wu Yu in the round of 16 women's flyweight bout.
As the evening went by, Indian fans were in for a shocker with top-ranked duo of Satwik Sairajreddy and Chirag Shetty went down in the quarter-final against Malaysian duo of Aaron Chia and Soh Wooi Yik.
India closed its day with the golden girl of Indian badminton PV Sindhu getting schooled by China's Jiao in straight sets (19-21, 14-21).
The only thing that Indian fans can look forward to in terms of Badminton would be Lakshya Sen in action against Chinese Taipei's Tien Chou on Friday.
Sailors Vishnu Saravanan and Nethra Kumanan had their dinghy events postponed due to weather playing spoilsport.
Vishnu finished day one after race two which sees him placed at the bottom at 34th position, Nethra had a good start and is currently placed at 6th spot after race one.
Live Updates
- 1 Aug 2024 11:26 AM IST
Women's 20km race walk event delayed too
Because of thunderstorms, the women's 20km race walk event which was scheduled to take place at 12:50 pm will now begin at 1:20 pm.
- 1 Aug 2024 11:18 AM IST
Here's what we have in store for today
11:30 am: Men's 20km race walk: Paramjeet Singh Bisht, Akashdeep Singh and Vikash Singh (medal event)
12:50 pm: Women's 20 km race walk: Priyanka (medal event)
12:30 pm: Golf - Gaganjeet Bhullar and Shubhankar Sharma in men's individual round 1.
1 pm: Shooting - Swapnil Kusale - men's 50m rifle-3 position final (medal event)
1:30 pm: Hockey - India vs Belgium in men's pool match
1:10 pm: Men's singles round of 16 (India's lakshya might take on HS Prannoy)
2:30 pm: Nikhat Zareen vs Wu Yu (round of 16 match)
2:31 pm: Archery - Pravin Jadhav vs China's Kai Wenchao in men's round of 16 match
3:30 pm: Sift Kaur Samra and Anjum Moudgil in women's 50m3 positions qualifications
3:45 pm: Tamil Nadu's Vishnu Saravanan in action - men's dinghy race 1 and 2
4:30 pm: Satwik and Chirag (Quarter-final) match
7:05 pm: Tamil Nadu's Nethra Kumanan in women's dinghy race 3 and 4
10:00 pm - PV Sindhu (round of 16 match)
- 1 Aug 2024 11:13 AM IST
20km race walk event delayed
Because of thunderstorms the men's 20km race walk final which was scheduled to start at 11:00 am will be delayed by 30 minutes. The event will start at 11:30 am. India’s Paramjeet Singh Bisht, Akashdeep Singh and Vikash Singh will be in action. Stay tuned!
- 1 Aug 2024 11:10 AM IST
Hello!! welcome to Day 6 of the Paris Olympics
It’s Day 6 of the Paris Olympics 2024 and the athletics competition begins from today, starting with the men's 20km race walk (medal event) where India’s Paramjeet Singh Bisht, Akashdeep Singh, and Vikash Singh will be in action.
It is followed by the women’s 20km race walk (medal event) where Priyanka Goswami will compete. She finished in the 17th position at the Tokyo Olympics.
The next big thing to look forward to is the finale of the men's 50m rifle-3 position event where Swapnil Kusale from Pune will strive to overcome past setbacks and win a medal for the country.
In hockey, the Indian men’s team will take on table topper’s Belgium in a Pool B match.
Coming to boxing, India's Nikhat Zareen will go up against Chinese 52-kg world champion Wu Yu in the round of 16 match in women's flyweight.
