Olympic Updates for India Day 4

There was not much action involving Indian athletes at Tokyo Olympics on Tuesday.Only two medal winning rounds in mixed team shooting took place as far as Indians were concerned.But none of the Indians were able to make impact.

Shooting

Mixed pair of Manu Bhaker and Saurabh Chaudhary failed to reach medal rounds in 10m air pistol mixed team event.Yashaswini Singh Deswal and Abhishek Verma pair also could not make it to final.10m Air rifle mixed Elavteam of Divyansh Singh Panwar and enil Valarivan failed to progress from stage 1 of qualifying.Deepak Kumar and Anjum Moudgil also had the similar fate.

Hockey

India beat Spain 3-0 in Group A hockey game at Tokyo Olympics.With 2 wins and one loss,India currently stands in second position.

Boxing

Lovlina Borgohain beat Nadine Apetz of Germany 3-2 to progress to quarterfinals.

Sailing

In men’s skiff 49er Race 1- Varun Thakkar and Ganapathy finished 18th.Race 2 and 3 have been postponed due to bad weather.

 

By Shailesh Padhye