Wednesday 4 August 2021

India at Tokyo 2020 - Our performance Today - Day 13 - 4th Aug 2021

 


Athletics - 

What a start for the day when Neeraj Chopra started with a 86.65m throw on his first throw to qualify as the top performer in men's Javelin. 

Shivpal Singh threw a poor 76.4m well below is Personal best and season's best and didn't qualify for the finals. 

Boxing -  

Lovlina lost to Turkey's Busenaz Surmeneli in an unanimous decision. Sadly the Turkish boxer was too good for Lovlina and she had to settle for Bronze. 

Golf -

Women's Golf - Aditi Ashok finished with 4 under and tied second. Diksha finished tied 56th with 3 over 

Hockey - 

In Women's Semi finals India lost to Argentina 2-1. India took the early lead and Argentina equalized in the second half and it was 1-1 at half time. Argentina went into lead in the third quarter and held on to it in the fourth to win it. 

Wrestling - 

Ravi Kumar defeated Columbia's Oscar Tigeros by technical superiority. In Quarters he defeated Georgi Vangelov also by technical superiority. In the semis Ravi started well scoring the first 2 points against Bulgaria's Nurislam Sanayev but with soon it all went down hill with the Bulgarian going up 9-2. However, Ravi came back beautifully to get to 7-9 before winning it by pin to get to the finals 

Anshu Malik lost to Belarus' Iryna Kurachkina 8-2. Since the Belarusian has made it to the finas, Anshu will get another chance in Repachage tomorrow.  

Deepak Punia defeated Nigeria's Ekrekeme Agiomor by technical superiority and in the quarters defeated China's Zushen Lin 6-3. In the semis however, Deepak lost by technical superiority to America's David Morris Taylor. Deepak will be in the Bronze medal match tomorrow. 

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