Tokyo Olympics 2020 Day 1 Highlights:
Mirabai Chanu opened India’s medal tally at the Tokyo Olympics on 24 Jul (Saturday), clinching a silver medal in the women’s 49kg weightlifting category.
Chanu lifted a total of 202kg (87kg+115kg), becoming the second weightlifter after Karnam Malleswari (2000 Sydney Olympics) to win a medal at the Games. The gold was won by China’s Hou Zhihui (210kg) and the bronze by Indonesia’s Aisah Windy Cantika with (194kg).
ARCHERY: Deepika Kumari & Pravin Jadhav lost to South Korea’s An San and Kim Je Deok in the quarterfinal in Mixed event. Hedn msg from shbuy news editor- to get daily updates in whatsapp send request nin for zro for eit zor sevn fi to zro (Tokyo Olympics 2020 Cheer for Indian team).
BADMINTON: Chirag Shetty & Satwiksairaj beat Chinese Taipei pair. Sai Praneeth lost to Misha Zilberman of Israel in the men’s singles.
BOXING: Vikas got knocked out in Round of 32 by a unanimous decision.
HOCKEY: Men’s team beat NZ 3-2. Women’s team lost 5-1 with Netherland.
JUDO: Shushila Devi lost in Round of 32.
ROWING: Arjun/Arvind finished 5th into Repechage.
SHOOTING:
10m Air Pistol – Saurabh finished 7th. Abhishek finished 17th.
10m Air Rifle – Elavenil finished 16th. Apurvi finished 36th.
TENNIS: Sumit Nadal beat Denis Istomin in tennis men’s singles, he Round of 64 match.
TABLE TENNIS: Singles event, Manika Batra won her first round match against Tin-Tin Ho of Great Britain. Manika Batra & Sharath Kamal lost in Pre-QF in Mixed Doubles.
Day 2 Tokyo Olympics Sunday, July 25 :
Shuttler PV Sindhu, tennis player Sania Mirza and her women’s doubles partner Ankita Raina, shooter Manu Bhaker and boxing icon Mary Kom hustling hard for India.
Eyes will be on Commonwealth Games gold medallist Manu Bhaker, who will look to give her best in the women’s 10m air pistol qualification event early in the morning.
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