2024-08-02 18:57:51
Paris: Shooter Manu Bhaker, who is proving to be a ‘miracle girl’ for India in the Olympics, has moved towards a hat-trick of medals. Manu entered the final of 25m pistol while the Indian hockey team defeated Australia after 52 years in the Olympics. However, the medal in mixed doubles in archery slipped out of hand and they finished fourth. The players performed well on the eighth day of the Paris Olympics on Thursday, overcoming the disappointment of strong medal hopes like PV Sindhu, Satwik Sairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty, Nikhat Zareen being eliminated. Manu, who has won two bronze medals so far, started it and reached another final by finishing second in the qualification.
Forgetting the defeat against Belgium in the last match, the Indian hockey team defeated Australia 3-2, which is its first win over this giant after Munich Olympics 1972. There was disappointment in archery when the pair of Dheeraj Bommadevara and Ankita Bhakat lost to America in the mixed doubles bronze medal match. Apart from this, good news also came for India from badminton late at night. Lakshya Sen made his place in the semi-finals of the men’s singles for India. He won 19-21, 21-15 and 21-12 against Chou Tien Chen of Chinese Taipei. Lakshya lost the first game, but after that he created history by winning two back to back games. Lakshya has become the first Indian shuttler to make it to the semi-finals in the men’s singles of the Olympics.
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Manu’s dominance continues at the shooting range
Manu Bhaker qualified for the final of the 25m women’s pistol event in shooting on Friday, moving closer to an unprecedented third medal for India at the Paris Olympic Games but Esha Singh crashed out of the competition. Anantjeet Singh Naruka was placed 26th among 30 shooters after a poor start on the first day of the men’s skeet qualification.
After winning the bronze medal in the individual 10m air pistol at the Paris Games, Manu also won the bronze medal in the mixed team category along with Sarabjot Singh. She became the first Indian to win two medals in the same Olympics. Manu scored a total of 590 points with 294 points in precision and 296 in rapid and entered the final by finishing second in the qualification. 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.
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Isha was disappointed, she could not qualify
Isha scored 291 in precision and 290 in rapid, for a total of 581 points and finished 18th and could not make it to the finals of the eight shooters. After scoring 95 and 96 in the first two series of precision, she made a strong comeback with 100 points but could only score 97, 96 and 97 in the rapid round. The final of this event will be played on Saturday, August 3.
On the other hand, Anantjeet could only score 68 points with 23, 22 and 23 points in three series of 25 shots each on the first day of men’s skeet qualification. Two series of the qualification round will now be held on Saturday after which the top six shooters will make it to the finals. Anantjeet’s chances of making it to the top six and qualifying for the finals are very low.
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Defeated Australia in hockey in Olympics after 52 years
On the strength of two goals from captain Harmanpreet Singh and excellent goalkeeping by PR Sreejesh, India defeated Australia in the Olympics after 52 years, winning 3-2 against this arch-rival 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 in Sydney Olympics 2000 was drawn 2-2. Australia won 7-1 against India in the group match in Tokyo Olympics 2021.
For Tokyo Olympics bronze medalist India, where Sreejesh acted like a true ‘wall’ and saved numerous goals, 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 power of the opponent. For India, Abhishek scored in the 12th, Harmanpreet in the 13th and 32nd minutes. For Australia, Craig Thomas scored in the 25th and Blake Govers in the 55th minute.
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Now the Indian team has reached the quarter finals
This victory will definitely heal the wounds of Indian hockey lovers which were caused by the 8-0 defeat in the final of Delhi Commonwealth Games 2010 and 7-0 defeat in Birmingham Commonwealth Games final. Before this match, India had won only three out of 11 matches against Australia in Olympics (1960 Rome quarter final, 1964 Tokyo semi final and 1972 Munich group match) while Australia won six and played two draws. Indian team finished second after Belgium with three wins, one draw and one defeat in the pool stage and will face the third ranked team of Pool A in the quarter final.
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Missed bronze medal in archery
India’s Dheeraj Bommadevara and Ankita Bhakat missed out on a medal in mixed doubles archery on Friday as they lost 6-2 to the American 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 as 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 Gonzalez and Ilia Canales 5-3 in the quarter-finals. The Indian pair won by 38-37, 38-38, 36-37, 37-36.
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India’s challenge in Judo ends
Indian judo player Tulika Mann was eliminated in the first round of the women’s over 78 kg event here on Friday after losing to London Olympics champion Idelis Ortiz of Cuba. 22-year-old Tulika from Delhi, a 2022 Commonwealth Games silver medalist, 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 lasted just 28 seconds against Ortiz. With Tulika’s defeat, India’s campaign in Judo ended as she was the only athlete to represent India in this event at the Paris Games.
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Balraj ranked 23rd in rowing
Indian rower Balraj Panwar finished fifth in the Final D to end his campaign at the Paris Olympics at 23rd place in the men’s single sculls event on Friday. The 25-year-old from Haryana clocked 7 minutes 2.37 seconds in Final D, his best performance in the ongoing Games. However, this was not a medal round.
Balraj, India’s only participant in the Paris Olympics’ rowing event, had finished fifth in the quarter heat race. Balraj had made it to the quarter finals by finishing second in the repechage round race on Sunday. He had reached the repechage round on Saturday by finishing fourth in the first round heat.