India’s 53rd place within the medal tally didn’t enhance on Sunday as no new medals had been added however the hockey workforce’s unbelievable shoot-out win over Nice Britain turned out to be the spotlight of the day.
India’s present tally consists of bronze medals, all in taking pictures occasions — from the ladies’s 10m air pistol, 10m air pistol blended workforce, and males’s 50m rifle three positions.
In boxing, Lovlina Borgohain, a bronze medalist within the welterweight class on the Tokyo Video games, confronted disappointment. Borgohain misplaced within the quarterfinals to Chinese language veteran Li Qian within the girls’s middleweight (75kg) class.
Lakshya Sen additionally confronted a setback in his bid for gold, dropping 20-22, 14-21 to defending champion Viktor Axelsen.
Nonetheless, Sen has one other probability for a medal as he’ll compete towards Malaysia’s Lee Zii Jia within the bronze playoff scheduled for Monday night.
Regardless of the challenges, the Indian contingent had a motive to rejoice. The boys’s hockey workforce confirmed outstanding resilience, notably after key defender Amit Rohidas obtained a crimson card for unintentionally hitting a rival participant 20 minutes into the sport.
The workforce managed to carry off Britain to 1-1, resulting in a decisive shoot-out.
Veteran goalkeeper PR Sreejesh, also known as the ‘Nice Wall of India’, then performed an important position within the shoot-out. Sreejesh made a number of important saves, guaranteeing India’s 4-2 shoot-out triumph.
“(It’s a) day by day job of a goalie,” shrugged the 36-year-old, who’s competing in his final worldwide occasion.
“Once I stepped on this discipline at the moment, there was two choices for me. This may be my final match, or I bought a possibility for 2 extra matches and I believe, yeah, I bought two extra matches now,” he quipped.
Coach Craig Fulton expressed his delight within the workforce’s efficiency, stating that the victory was greater than only a win.
“When our backs are towards the wall, we’re all roped in. We’re all on this collectively,” he mentioned.
Boxers finish with out medal
India’s boxing marketing campaign got here to an unsuccessful finish after Lovlina Borgohain, the Tokyo bronze-winner, misplaced within the girls’s 75kg quarterfinals to China’s Li Qian.
The defeat adopted an in depth loss by Nishant Dev within the males’s 71kg quarterfinals, leaving the workforce with none medals.
Borgohain, who’s the reigning world champion in her class, was defeated 1-4 in a difficult match towards Li Qian, the Tokyo Video games silver medalist. Each boxers obtained repeated cautions for clinching and holding in the course of the contest.
India was represented by a six-member boxing contingent on the Video games, consisting of 4 girls and two males. 4 of those boxers had been eradicated within the preliminary phases.
Lakshya misses bull’s eye however medal nonetheless in sight
India’s pursuit of a historic first Olympic gold in badminton was dashed when Lakshya Sen misplaced to Viktor Axelsen within the males’s singles semifinals.
The 22-year-old Sen, who beforehand received a bronze on the World Championships, couldn’t maintain onto his early leads in both sport of the 54-minute match towards the two-time world champion.
Sen initially had a three-point benefit within the first sport and adopted with a 7-0 lead within the second sport.
Regardless of the promising begins, he in the end succumbed to Axelsen’s prowess, leaving the dream unfulfilled.
India is but to clinch an Olympic gold in badminton.
PV Sindhu received a silver and bronze within the 2016 Rio and 2020 Tokyo Olympics, respectively, whereas Saina Nehwal secured a bronze on the 2012 London Video games.
Shooters do properly however not sufficient
Shooters Vijayveer Sidhu and Anish Bhanwala put up commendable performances within the {qualifications} of the 25m fast hearth males’s pistol occasion in Chateauroux however fell in need of making it to the finals.
Vijayveer and Anish displayed good taking pictures abilities over the 2 phases of qualification.
They remained sturdy contenders till the ultimate 10 pictures of the second rapid-fire stage.
Nonetheless, they shot scores of 92 and 93, ending in ninth and thirteenth locations respectively. Sadly, solely the highest six shooters advance to the ultimate spherical.
Within the girls’s skeet competitors, Maheshwari Chauhan and Raiza Dhillon additionally confirmed aggressive spirit. Maheshwari led to 14th place, scoring a complete of 118 throughout 5 sequence. The primary three sequence, which came about on Saturday, noticed her scoring 23, 24, and 24, adopted by 25 and 22 within the subsequent sequence.
Raiza completed in twenty third place with a complete rating of 113, after recording 21, 22, 23, 23, and 24 in her sequence.
Much like the lads’s occasion, solely the highest six within the {qualifications} moved on to the ultimate stage.
Nothing to have a good time in athletics to date
India’s efficiency within the athletics competitors noticed nationwide report holders Parul Chaudhary and Jeswin Aldrin falling brief of their respective occasions.
Whereas Parul did not qualify for the ladies’s 3000m steeplechase, Jeswin Aldrin didn’t make it via the lads’s lengthy leap qualification, each ending their campaigns on the Paris Olympics.
Parul completed eighth in her warmth and twenty first total within the girls’s 3000m steeplechase.
Jeswin fouled his first two makes an attempt within the males’s lengthy leap qualification earlier than recording a leap of seven.61 meters on his third strive.
He concluded the competitors thirteenth in Group B and was positioned twenty sixth total.
