India at Tokyo 2020 - Our Performance on Day 10 & 11 - 1st & 2nd August 2021

 

Athletics - 

Dutee chand finished last in her heat running a 23.85 much below her PB of 23. When there were questions about Sreeshankar and Irfan not sure on what basis we sent Dutee who was continuously beaten by Dhanalakshmi in both 100 and 200.

Kamalpreet Kaur finished 6th in women's discus throwing a 63.7. She had a PB of 66.59 and if she had thrown that she would have won a bronze, not to be.. 

Badminton - 

Sindhu won her match convincingly to secure the Bronze medal for India. 

Boxing - 

Satish Kumar took on Bakhodir Jalalov in the Super Heavy Quarter Finals and lost with an unanimous decision 5-0. Satish was injured and was doubtful starter for the fight. 

Equestrian

Fouaad dropped from 9th to 22nd spot at the end of Cross country leg. In the Jumping he did well to stay in top 25(finished 25th) and qualify for the finals. Finished overall 23rd in finals

Golf

Anirban finished 42nd and Udayan finished 56th. Hope Aditi does better 

Hockey - 

Indian men defeated Great Britain 3-1 and qualified for the semis. It was a pretty good performance by the Indians. Only concern was the second half we didn't attack much and were primarily defending. When you are defending so much any opposition will find a way to score and that is what the Brits did. 

On the other hand Indian women put up a pretty good performance to defeat Australia 1-0. They were attacking from the get go and kept at it till the end. India scored through Gurjit's penalty corner conversion in the second quarter.  Australia tried to press us but the mid field and defence held strong to hold on to the lead. Excellent to see both men and women in semis. Savita stood like a rock in the goal and defended beautifully. 

Shooting - 

Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar and Sanjeev Rajput were in action in the men's 50m 3 position rifle event. This was the last event for our shooting contingent. Aishwary started off well in the prone position shooting a 397 and was placed second. Things went down hill from there, he shot a 391 in kneeling position and dropped to 15th spot and in the standing he shot 379 to shoot an overall 1167 and was placed 21st. Sanjeev Rajput started poorly with a 387 in the prone and in kneeling shot a good 393 but in standing shot a 377 to be placed 32nd in a field of 39. That ends the shooting program for Indian's. We had 15 athletes in shooting and 1 finalist and zero medal. Lot was expected from this contingent but we only ended up with disappointment.