Paris Olympics 2024 Day 5 Highlights: Prannoy advances to R16; Lovlina Borgohain wins in boxing; Deepika qualifies to1/8 elimination round in archery
At midnight, Nishant Dev will look to better India’s run in boxing when he is up against Jose Gabriel Rodriguez Tenorio in men's welterweight.
Paris Olympics 2024
CHENNAI: The Day 5 of the Paris Olympics 2024 started off well for the Indian contingents with badminton star PV Sindhu breezing past Kristen Kuuba in her final group stage match on Wednesday. With this she advances to round of 16.
In men’s singles, Lakshya Sen defeated Jonatan Christie in two straight sets.
Indian shooter Swapnil Kusale competing in 50m rifle 3 positions men's qualification, advanced to the final.
Boxer Lovlina Borgohain from Assam is just one win away from a medal. She'll take on top seed Li Qian of China on Sunday.
Indian Table Tennis player Manika lost to Japan's Miu Hirano in women's 1/16 Elimination round. Indian has been eliminated from the singles competition.
In other event Indian Archer Tarundeep Rai was defeated by Great Britain's Tom Hall in Men's Individual 1/32 Elimination round.
Prannoy advances to Round of 16, to face off Lakshya Sen. Prannoy defeated Vietnam's Le Duc in 1/32 Elimination round ( 16-21,21-11,21-12 )
Also, Sreeja Akula will be in action once again tonight as she'd take on reigning World Champion Sun Yingsha in pre quarterfinals.
Live Updates
- 31 July 2024 12:54 PM IST
Men's 50m 3 Positions Rifle qualification
Still plenty of time to catch up for the Indians
- 31 July 2024 12:50 PM IST
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.
- 31 July 2024 12:46 PM IST
50m Rifle 3 Positions Men's Qualification: Kneeling beings!!
APS Tomar | 8th | 46 shots left
Swapnil Kusale | 13th | 47 shots left
- 31 July 2024 12:34 PM IST
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
- 31 July 2024 12:31 PM IST
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.
- 31 July 2024 12:29 PM IST
Aishwary was part of the Tokyo Olympics and will face tough competition this time around
- 31 July 2024 12:23 PM IST
Men's 50m rifle 3 position qualifications underway!!!!
Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar and Swapnil Kusale in action
- 31 July 2024 12:21 PM IST
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.
