After Manu, Ramita hopes for a medal in shooting: Arjun will also play the final, Indian hockey team will play against Argentina; eyes on 3 medal events today

Jul 28, 2024 Divya Bharat

Sports Desk11 minutes ago

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Ramita Jindal will compete in the 10m air rifle women’s final.

The second day of the Paris Olympics was historic for India. Manu Bhaker won the bronze medal in shooting at the Olympics after 12 years. She became the first Indian woman to win an Olympic medal in shooting.

Today on Monday, India will challenge in shooting, badminton, hockey and archery. Indian athletes will be eyeing 3 medal events. Our players will participate in 2 medal events. In these, Ramita Ramita will aim for the medal at 1 pm and Arjun Babuta at 3:30 pm in the 10 meter air rifle women and men’s finals of shooting.

The Indian archery team will play the quarter-final match. The final match of this event will also be held in the evening.

Manu Bhaker aiming at the target during the final.

Schedule for July 29…

Indian men’s and women’s doubles matches in badminton
Badminton doubles matches will start at 12 noon. In the first match, the pair of star shuttlers Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty will face the pair of Lamsfuss Mark and Sedel Marvin of Germany in men’s doubles. After this, from 12:50 pm, Tanisha Crasto and Ashwini Ponnappa will play against Japan’s Nami Matsuyama and Chiharu Shida in women’s doubles.

Sen will face German shuttler
In the men’s singles match, India’s Lakshya Sen will face Belgium’s Julien Carreagy. This match will be played from 5:30 pm. Sen defeated Guatemal’s Cordon Kevin in straight games in his first match.

Mixed team events in shooting
In shooting, 2 teams from India will participate in the 10 meter air pistol mixed team. Manu Bhaker and Sarabjot Singh will participate in the first team and Rhythm Sangwan and Arjun Singh Cheema will participate in this event as the second team. This event will start at 12:45 pm Indian time. After this, Prithviraj Tondaiman will play the qualification round of Trap Man from 1 pm.

Ramita and Babuta will play for medal in shooting
Ramita Jindal will challenge for a medal in the 10 meter air rifle final from 1 pm. Arjun Babuta will also fight for a medal in the men’s event from 3:30 pm.

Hockey and archery matches too
The Indian men’s hockey team will play against Argentina from 4:15 pm. In its first match, the Indian team defeated New Zealand 3-2 in an interesting match. After this, the men’s mixed team will play in the quarter-finals in archery. Dheeraj Bommadevara, Praveen Jadhav and Tarundeep Roy will challenge from India. This archery match will start from 5:45 pm. Apart from this, in table tennis, Shreeji Akula will play against GN Jeng in the round of 32 match.

Highlights from Day 2 of Paris Olympics 2024

Manu Bhaker gave India its first medal. Manu won bronze in the women’s 10 meter air pistol event.
Sumit Nagal lost his first match. Nagal, who came to challenge in the men’s singles, lost to host France’s Corentin Moutet 6-2, 2-6, 5-7.
In archery, the Indian women’s team lost in the quarterfinals. Netherlands defeated the Indian team in a one-sided fashion with 6-0 set points.
In table tennis, Manika Batra defeated Anna Horsey of Great Britain 4-1 in the round of-64 match.
The Indian challenge in swimming ended. Srihari and Dhinidhi were eliminated from their respective events.
In the Round of 64 match of table tennis, Sharath Kamal faced Kozul Denny of Slovenia. In this match which lasted 49 minutes, Kozul Denny won 4-2.
In boxing, Nikhat won the first bout, defeating Maxi of Germany 5-0.
In shooting, Arjun Babuta qualified for the final by finishing seventh in the 10m Air Rifle Men’s Qualification.
In table tennis, Sreeja Akula defeated Sweden’s Christina Kalberg 4-0. She has reached the round of 32.
Ramita Jindal reached the final of the women’s 10 meter air rifle event.
In rowing, Balraj Panwar has reached the quarter-finals of the men’s singles sculls. Balraj is the first Indian to reach the quarter-finals of this event.
PV Sindhu started the Paris Olympics with a win. She defeated Fathimath Nabah of Maldives 21-9 and 21-6 in her first match in the group stage.
HS Prannoy won 2-0 in 45 minutes. He defeated Germany’s Fabian Roth 21-18, 21-12 in straight games in a Group-K match in the men’s singles event of badminton.