Paris : India open medals tally as Manu Bhakar clinched Bronze Medal in 10 M Air Pistol Shooting, becoming 1st woman shooter to achieve the feat. Arjun Babuta stormed into 10 M Air Rifle shooting final. However, sadly India Table Tennis Legend Sharath Kamal made shocking exit, similarly Sumit Nagal faced defeat in Tennis.
Here’s a quick summary of India’s Day 2 :
SHOOTING :
Women –
Manu Bhaker won Bronze medal in women’s 10m air pistol.
Ramita Jindal (631.5 points) finished 5th to enter the final in Women’s 10m Air Rifle event.
Elavenil Valarivan (630.7 points) misses out, finishes 10th
Men –
Arjun Babuta finished 7th to enter men’s 10m air rifle final with a score of 630.1.
Sandeep Singh finished outside the top-8 qualification bracket, stood 12th with a score of 629.3.
TABLE TENNIS :
Women –
Sreeja Akula won her Round-of-64 women’s singles match 11-4, 11-9, 11-7, 11-8 against Sweden’s Christina Kallberg.
Manika Batra beats Anna Hursey (Great Britain) 4-1 in Women’s Singles Round of 64
Men –
Achanta Sharath Kamal lost 4-2 (12-10, 9-11, 6-11, 7-11, 11-8, 10-12) in Round of 64 against Slovenia’s Deni Kozul
Harmeet Desai vs Felix Lebrun (France) in Men’s Singles Round of 64
TENNIS :
Sumit Nagal loses 2-6, 6-2, 5-7 against Corentin Moutet (France) in Men’s Singles First Round
ROWING :
Balraj Panwar enters quarter-finals in Men’s Single Sculls , finishing 2nd in Repechage
SWIMMING :
Srihari Nataraj finishes second in Heat 2 of men’s 100m bakstroke with a timing of 55.01 seconds. Sixteen fastest swimmers across Heats qualify for the semifinals – Fails to qualify for semis
14 years old youngest Indian, swimmer Dhinidhi Desinghu finishes at top in her women’s 200m Freestyle Heat with a timing of 2:06.96. The 16 fastest from the heats qualify to the semifinals – Fails to qualify for semis
BOXING :
Boxer Nikhat Zareen progressed to the pre-quarterfinals of women’s 50kg division with a 5-0 over Maxi Kloetzer of Germany.
ARCHERY :
India (Ankita Bhakat, Bhajan Kaur and Deepika Kumari) lost 0-6 to Netherlands in Women’s Team Quarter-finals
BADMINTON :
Women –
PV Sindhu beaten FN Abdul Razzaq (Maldives) 21-9, 21-6 in Women’s Singles (Group stage).
Men –
HS Prannoy vs Fabian Roth (Germany) in Men’s Singles (Group stage).
India will begin their campaign on July 29 from 12 Pm IST with ‘Sat-Chi’ in action.
