India at Tokyo 2020 - Our performance Today - Day 12 - 3rd Aug 2021

Athletics - 

Women's Javelin throw qualification - Annu Rani started off what was a disappointing day for us. She threw a 50m, 51m and 54m throw to finish last in women' Javelin. She has a seasons best of 63m. 

Men's Shotput qualification - Tajinder Pal Toor threw a best of 19.99m to not qualify for the finals. As most field athletes this was much below his best of 21.49m.. He didn't even finish in top 12 of his group leave alone top 12 overall.. 

Hockey - 

Indian men lost to Belgium in the semi finals 5-3. Belgium went up early in the first quarter and India quickly equalized and went up 2-1 in the first quarter. In the second quarter Belgium equalized 2-2. 3rd Quarter was only quarter where both teams didn't score and it was 2-2 going into the last quarter. Belgium pressed and we buckled under pressure giving away way too many PCs and Belgium converted one and scored from a stroke also to go 4-2 up with about 7 minutes left. India took off Sreejesh with 3 minutes left to add another player on the field but that was not enough and Belgium used it to score one more goal in the end to win the match 5-3. Disappointing day. Hope we come back to win the Bronze medal match up against Germany who lost to Australia in the other semis 1-3.    

Wrestling - 

Sonam Malik lost her first match in the round of 16. She was leading 2-0 till the last 30 seconds and lost 2 points and the Mongolian won the match. Since Sonam got her points in 1s and the opponent scored her 2 in one go the victory went to the Mongolian. The hope for repachage went bust as the Mongolian lost the next round match.  

India at Tokyo 2020 - what to look forward on Day 12 - 3rd August 2021

 

Athletics - 

5:50 am Women's Javelin throw qualification - Annu Rani will be in action in group A 

3:45 pm - Men's Shotput qualification - Tajinder Pal Toor will be in action in group A

Hockey - 

7:00 am - Indian men take on Belgium in the semi finals  

Wrestling - 

around 9:30 am Women 62kg - Sonam Malik will be in action in the round of 16. Quarter final will be immediately after that. Semis from 2:45 pm.  

Medal possibilities - Indian men can confirm a top 2 finish and Sonam Malik. 

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.   

India at Tokyo 2020 - what to look forward on Day 11 - 2nd August 2021

 

Athletics - 

7:24am - Dutee Chand in 200m heat 4 (semis from 3:55pm)

4.30 pm - Kamalpreet Kaur in the discus finals 

Equestrian - 

1:30 pm - Fouaad Mirza will be in action. If he stays in top 25 he will be in finals at 5.15 pm

Hockey - 

8:30 am - Women quarterfinals - India will take on Australia

Shooting - 

8am - Men's 50m 3 position qualification will have Sanjeev Rajput and Aishwary Tomar in action at 8 am and finals at 1:20 pm. 

Medal possibilities - Can Kamalpreet surprise us?

India at Tokyo 2020 - what to look forward on Day 10 - 1st August 2021

 

Badminton - 

5pm - Sindhu will take on Bing Jiao He in the Bronze medal match up

Boxing - 

9.36am Satish Kumar will take on Uzbek's Bhakodir Jalalov who is a former world champion... It's going to be tough for Satish

Equestrian

4.15am - Fouaad Mirza will be in action 

Golf

4 am - Day 4 and final day of men's action. Anirban and Udayan will be in action

Hockey - 

5.30 pm - Indian men will take on Great Britain in Men's Quarters 

Medal possibilities - Can Sindhu defeat the Chinese shuttler ???

India at Tokyo 2020 - Our performance today - Day 9 - 31st July 2021

 

Archery

7:18 am - Atanu Das lost in the pre-quarters to Japan's Takaharu Furukawa 6-4

Athletics - 

Kamalpreet Kaur qualified for Discus finals. Seemia didn't make it. Kamalpreet was one of the 2 automatic qualifiers

Men's Long Jump Qualification - M Shreeshankar was not in form and he was warned about it. He continued his poor form and jumped a best of 7.69 and didn't make it to finals.

Badminton -  

Sindhu lost to Tai Tzu Ying in straight games. The first game was close till 18-18 but after that it was one way traffic.

Boxing -

Huge disappointment, to start the day. Amit Panghal lost in pre-quarters to Columbia's Herney Yuberjen Rivas Martinez in the men's Fly. He started ok in the first round but from second round Amit was literally running away from the Columbian boxer... Third round was just so sad to watch.. something went horribly wrong ... Either Amit was injured or he pressure got to him... 

Pooja Rani lost to former World champion Li Qian in the quarters ... The Chinese boxer was in a different league and it was one way traffic...

Golf -

Anirban and Udayan are tied 28th and 55th end of day 3. 

Hockey - Indian women beat South Africa in the Pool A match 4-3. 

Sailing -

Ganapathy and Varun finished 16th, 9th and 14th in races 10, 11 and 12... They finished overall 17th in a field of 19

Shooting - 

50m Rifle 3 position - Anjum Modgil and Tejaswini Sawant didn't qualify for the finals... Anjum was in top 8 after the prone and kneeling but dropped to 13th after standing... Tejaswini 

Medal possibilities - Atanu Das could win our second Archery medal. 

India at Tokyo 2020 - what to look forward on Day 9 - 31st July 2021

Archery

7:18 am - Atanu Das will be in the pre-quarters against Japan's Takaharu Furukawa. Quarters to finals happen back to back from 11:15 am till 1:45 pm.  

 

Athletics - 

6:00 am - Women's Discuss throw Qualification - Seema Punia and Kamalpreet Kaur will be in action 

3:40 pm - Men's Long Jump Qualification - M Shreeshankar will be in action

Badminton -  

around 3pm - Sindhu will take on Tai Tzu Ying in the semis 

Boxing -

7:30 am - Amit Panghal will be in action for the first time in the pre-quarters against Columbia's Herney Yuberjen Rivas Martinez in the men's Fly

3:36 pm - Pooja Rani will take on former World champion Li Qian in the quarters 

Golf -

5 am - Anirban and Udayan will be in action on the last day of Men's golf action 

Hockey - 

8:45 am - Indian women take on South Africa in the Pool A match. Another must win match for the Indian's. 

Sailing -

8:35 am - Ganapathy and Varun will be in action in races 10, 11 and 12 in what would be their last day of action.  

Shooting - 

8:30 am - 50m Rifle 3 position - Qualification at 8:30 am and Finals at 12:30 pm - We have Anjum Modgil and Tejaswini Sawant in action

Medal possibilities - Atanu Das could win our first Archery medal. Can Pooja Rani stun another World Champion to ensure a second boxing medal?

India at Tokyo 2020 - Our Performance on Day 8- 30th July 2021

 Archery - 

Deepika Kumari beat Ksenia Perova in pre-quarters to get to the quarter finals. It also went to the shoot off and Deepika came out on top.. Deepika lost in the quarter finals against the the Korean An San. The match started with Deepika shooting a 7 and the Korean shooting a 10 and the Korean was on top through the match. She lost in straight sets 6-0. Korean went on to win the Gold eventually. Our wait for the archery medal continues right from the days of Limba Ram. 

Athletics - 

Athletics starts on 30th July 

Avinash Sable finished 7th in the 3000m Steeplechase heat 2. He created a national rank. However, that was not good enough to make it to semis. Luck also didn't play a part as in the next heat all 3 qualifiers were slower than Avinash. If only he had been in the next heat :(. He was the 13th fastest in the field of 42. He ran a 8.18.12 and earlier national record was 8.20.20 (which was also his record)

  

MP Jabir finished last in his heat in 400 m hurdles heats 5. He finished overall 33rd in a field of 36.  He ran a 50.77 (PB of 49.13)

Not much was expected of Dutee Chand in 100m heatsShe finished 7th in her heat and overall 45th in a field of 54.  She ran a 11.54 (PB 11.17)

4*400 Mixed relay team - We had 3 from Tamil nadu in the team, I don't remember such a line up mostly Tamil nadu runners. Finished last in the heat way behind others.. We were 6th after the first change over and last after Revathi's leg and after Subha the gap got worser and Rajiv was like 200meters behind when he started and finished about 10 second behind the first placed Polish team. 

Badminton - 

Sindhu defeated Akane Jamguchi in the Quarters in straight games. It was a completely dominating performance. There was a moment in the second game when Akane was on couple of game points but Sindhu came back to win it. 

Boxing -

Simranjit lost to Thailand's Sudaporn Seesondee in the pre-quarters. In the first round I personally felt Simranjit fought really well but all 5 judges thought the Thai boxer won it. In the second round Simranjit was trying to force her way to scoring but let her guard down which was taken advantage by the Thai boxer who won the second round convincingly. Once you lose 2 rounds on all 5 cards it is very difficult to come back in the 3rd which is what happened and Thailand boxer won it 5-0. 

Lovlina defeated Chinese Taipei's Chin Nien Chen in the Quarter finals. Taipei's boxer is a former world champion and had defeated Lovlina in their last 2 meetings. Lovlina had a clear strategy of fighting from distance and used her reach and height advantage beautifully. First round both boxers were cagey was finding what the other was trying to do and both landed few blows but Navnit came on top 3-2 and in the second round Lovlina fought really well using her height and own it 4-1. After losing 2 rounds the Taipei boxer needed a very bring round in the 3rd which was not to be and Lovlina was using her height and not giving much chance for the Taipei boxer to come back to win it. She is not assured of a medal. Next up the Turkey boxer who looks very strong. Hope Lovlina and the coaches come up with a clear strategy to defeat her. It's going to be very tough for Lovlina in semis.  

Equestrian -

5 am - Fouuad Mirza is placed 7th in the field of 42 (total 63 competitors) after the completion of 2 of 3 sessions of Dressage. There is still Cross Country and Jumping left. 

Golf - 

The action was interrupted due to lightning.  

Hockey -  

Indian women beat Ireland 1-0 in Pool A match. It was a must win match for the Indians. The Indian's are struggling still to finish anything in the D. They made so many entries to the D but couldn't finish it. Gurjit was not in the pitch and all our penalty corners was coming to nothing as Grace was not able to do much with them. Finally India was able to break the deadlock in the last 5 minutes to win in 1-0.   

Indian men defeated Japan 5-3 in the final Pool A match. We had already qualified for the quarter finals and confirmed second spot in Pool A. They had rested some of the players like Rupinder and Mandeep Singh.   

Sailing - 

Nethra Kumanan finished 37th and 38th in the 9th and 10th race. She finished 35th overall in a field of 44

Vishnu Saravanan finished 3rd and 15th in 9th and 10th race. He finishes 20 in the overall field of 35. Really happy with a top 3 finish at least in one race for Vishnu. 

Ganapathy and Varun finished 17th, 11th and 16th in the 7th, 8th and 9th race. They are currently placed 17th overall.  

Shooting - 

Manu Bhaker, Rahi Sarnobat shot 582 and 573 to finish 15th and 32nd in the 25m Pistol. The dry run in shooting continued even today. 

India at Tokyo 2020 - what to look forward on Day 8 - 30th July 2021

 

Archery - 

6:00 am - Deepika Kumari will take on Ksenia Perova in pre-quarters. 

Quarters to finals happen back to back from 11:15 am till 1:45 pm.  

Athletics - 

Athletics starts on 30th July 

6:17 am - We have Avinash Sable in 3000m Steeplechase heat 2

8:27 am - MP Jabir in 400 m hurdles heats 5 (top heat) 

8:45 am Dutee Chand in 100m heats - Heats to be finalized post preliminaries in the morning. Will update the timings in the post once its finalized  

4:42 pm - 4*400 Mixed relay team in heat 2

Badminton - 

1:15 pm - Sindhu will take on Akane Jamguchi in the Quarters 

Boxing -

8:18 am - Simranjit will take on Thailand's Sudaporn Seesondee in the pre-quarters. Thai boxer is a former World championship silver medalist 

8:48 am - Lovlina will take on Chinese Taipei's Chin Nien Chen in the Quarter finals. Taipei's boxer is a former world champion. 

Equestrian -

5 am - Fouuad Mirza will be in action in the morning and at 2 pm

Golf - 

5 am - Day 2 of Men's action. Anirban and Udayan will be in action 

Hockey -  

8:15 am - Indian women take on Ireland in Pool A match. Must win match for the Indians.  

3 pm - Indian men take on Japan in the Pool A match. Last league match for us. 

Sailing - 

8:35 am - Nethra will be in action in races 9 and 10. Probably the last day of Olympics for her 

8:35 am - Ganapathy and varun will be in action in Races 7, 8 and 9. 

11:05 am - Vishnu Saravanan will be in action in races 9 and 10. Last day for him as well 

Shooting - 

5:30 am - Women 25m Pistol Qualification Day 2 - we have  Manu Bhaker, Rahi Sarnobat and finals at 11:20 am

Medal possibilities - Manu Bhaker an outside chance in 25m shooting.. Lovlina may confirm her medal.. Lot will ride on Deepika and she will mostly face the Korean No 1 in Quarters.  

  

India at Tokyo 2020 - Our Performance on Day 7- 29th July 2021

Archery - 

Atanu Das beat Chinese Taipei's Yu Cheng Deng 6-4 in the round of 64 match and defeated the former olympic champion Jinhyek Oh of Korea in a very close match which went to shoot off.  

Badminton 

Sindhu defeated Mia Blichfeldt in the round of 16 match in straight games. It was a more convincing victory for Sindhu. 

Boxing

Satish Kumar defeated Jamaica's Ricardo Brown convincingly in the round of 16 in the Super Heavy weight category. He will take on former World Champion in the next round  

MC Mary Kom lost to Columbia's Lorena Ingrit Valencia Victoria 3-2 in the round of 16 match and is out of the Olympics. 

Golf

Anirban Lahiri shot a 4 under end of day 1 and Udayan Mane is 1 under when bad weather stopped play.   

Hockey - 

Indian men defeated Argentina 3 -1 in the pool A match. India was struggling to do much in the D till the 3rd quarter as Argentina was defending beautifully. In the last few minutes India scored 2 goals to win 3-1. With this we have qualified for the quarters and are placed 2nd in the pool. 

Rowing - 

Indian pair finished overall 11th in the Final B. This is the highest Indian's have ever finished in Rowing. 

Sailing -

Nethra Kumanan finished 22nd  and 20th in the 7th and 8th race. She is overall 31st end of 8 races  

Vishnu Saravanan finished 27th and 23rd in 7th and 8th race. He is overall 23rd after 8 races  

Ganapathy and Varun finished 16th and 7th in the 5th and 6th race. They are currently placed 17th overall.  

Shooting -

At the end of Day 1 of Qualification. Rahi Sarnobat shot at 287 and Manu Bhaker shot a 292. They are placed 25th and 5th as of now.    

Swimming -

Sajan Prakash finished 2nd in his 100m Butterfly Heat 2. However, he doesn't qualify for the semis. 

India at Tokyo 2020 - what to look forward on Day 7 - 29th July 2021

 

Archery - 

7:31 am - Atanu Das will be in action against Chinese Taipei's Yu Cheng Deng and if he wins that match he will have his next round at 8:10 am

Badminton 

6:15 am - Sindhu will take on Mia Blichfeldt in the round of 16 match

Boxing

8:48 am - Satish Kumar will take on Jamaica's Ricardo Brown in the round of 16 in the Super Heavy weight category

3:36 pm - MC Mary Kom will take on Columbia's Lorena Ingrit Valencia Victoria in the round of 16 match 

Golf

4 am - Anirban Lahiri and Udayan Mane will be in action 

Hockey - 

6am - Indian men take on Argentina at in the pool A match 

Rowing - 

5:20 am - Indian pair will be rowing to finalize their ranking. Hope they finish in the top 10. 

Sailing -

8:35 am - All four sailors have 2 races each back to back  

Shooting -

5:30 am - Day 1 of Qualification. Rahi Sarnobat and Manu Bhaker will be in action   

Swimming -

4:16 pm - Sajan Prakash will be in the 100m Butterfly Heat 2

Medal possibilities - None

India at Tokyo 2020 - Our Performance on Day 6 28th July 2021

 

Archery - 

Tarundeep Rai defeated Kazakhstan's Oleksii Hunbin 6-4 in the round of 64 match. The veteran started slow in the first set but started hitting at least 1 - 10s in each of the following sets. He came back from being 1-3 down end of second set to win it 6-4. In the next round Tarundeep took on Israel's Itay Shanny and it was a very close match which went to the shoot off and the Israel archer shot a 10 and Rai shot a 9 to get knocked out in the round of 32 match. 

Next up was Pravin Jadhav who took at Russia's World # 2 Galsan Bazarzhapov. Pravin was in very good form and Galsan shot a couple of 7s which costed him and Pravin won the match 6-0. In the next round Pravin took on America's World # 1 Brady Ellison. Brady was in very good form and Pravin shot a couple of 7s which cost him dear and was knocked out 6-0 

Then came Deepika Kumari who is currently ranked # 1. She took on Bhutan's Karma and won in straight sets even though she was not shooting any high scores. In the next round Deepika took on America's Jennifer Mucino Fernandez. Deepika again was not in great form and she shot a 7 and 6 also but finally scrapped through to win the match 6-4. 

Badminton 

Sindhu took on Hong Kong's Ngan Yi Cheung in the second match in the group stage. She won the first game convincingly but in the second game the Hong Kong shuttler played really well before Sindhu could win the second game 21-16. She is through to the Pre-quarters and will take on Denmark's Mia Blichfeldt. 

Sai Praneeth poor form continued in the second match in group stage against Netherlands Mark Caljouw. He was already out of contention to move forward before the match itself. Sai Praneeth lost in straight games. 

Boxing - 

Pooja Rani dind't have to break sweat against Algeria's Ichrak Chaib. Pooja won the bout by unanimous decision 5-0. Next up is the world Champion from China's Li Qian in the quarters for 

Hockey - 

Indian women lost the third match in row against Great Britain 4-1. We were down 1-0 in the second minute itself and it all went downhill from then. The next two matches are must win for the Indian women if they want to move to quarters.  

Rowing -

Arjun and Arvind finished last in their semis. The Indian pair started strong and was 4th at the 500m mark and dropped to 5th by 1000m mark and dropped to last and just couldn't keep pace with the other rowers. 

Sailing

Ganapathy and Varun finished 18th, 18th and 19th in the races 2, 3, 4 in 49er class in a field of 19. 

India at Tokyo 2020 - what to look forward on Day 6 - 28th July 2021

 

Archery - 

We will have 3 of our archers in action tomorrow. 

7:31 am - Tarundeep Rai will be in action in first round against Oleksii Hunbin and if he wins that match his next round match will be at 8:10 am

12:30 pm - Pravin Jadhav will be in action in first round against Russia's Galsan Bazarzhapov and if he wins that match his next round match will be at 1:22 pm

2:14 pm - Deepika Kumari will be in action in first round against Bhutan's Karma and if she wins that match her next round match will be at 2:53 pm 

Badminton 

7:30 am - Sindhu will play her second match in the group stage against Hong Kong's Ngan Yi Cheung. 

2:30 pm - Sai Praneeth will play his second match in the group stage against Netherlands Mark Caljouw

Boxing - 

2:33 pm - Pooja Rani will be in action in the round of 16 match against Algeria's Ichrak Chaib

Hockey - 

6:30 am - Indian women take on Great Britain in the Pool A match 

Rowing -

8:00pm - Arjun and Arvind will be in the semis. 

Sailing

8:35 am Ganapathy and Varun will be in action in the races 2, 3, 4 in 49er class

Medal possibilities - None

India at Tokyo 2020 - Our Performance on day 5 - 27-July

 

Badminton - 

Satwik Rankireddy and Chirag defeated Britain's Ben Lane and Sean Vendy in straight games and finished with 2 wins. 3 teams had 2 wins each and since our team lost the in straight games and other 2 teams lost 1-2 we missed out on qualifying to quarters

Boxing - 

Lovlina Borgohain defeated Germany's Narine Apetz to head to the quarters. It was a bit scrappy in the first round but Lovlina did enough in the second and held on to the lead in the third even though Apetz landed few good punches in the third round.  

Hockey - 

After the disastrous outing against Aussies, Indian defeated Spain 3-0. It was a pretty good performance defensively as Spain couldn't do much in our D. 

Sailing - 

After 6 races, Nethra Kumanan is placed overall 33rd in a field of 44. She finished 32nd and 39th in the 5th and 6th races today. 

After 6 races, Vishnu Saravanan is placed overall 22nd in a field of 34. He finished 23rd, 22nd and 12th in the 4th, 5th and 6th races today. 

Ganapathy and Varun finished 18 in a field of 19 in the first race. Their 2nd and 3rd races were postponed

Shooting -

It's complete disaster in shooting. Mixed team events were our definite shot at medals and today all 4 teams came shot. In the pistol event, Abhishek's poor run in the qualifying continued and Yashaswini also was not firing. Manu also was not at her peak and Saurabh was the only one in good form in the pistol event. Manu and Saurabh were first after the Qualification round 1 but shot poorly in round 2 and didn't progress to the medal matches. Abhishek and Yashaswini got knocked out in the qualification round 1 itself as they finished 17th in a field of 20

In the Rifle event the poor form of our shooters continued. Elavenil and Divyansh finished 12th and Anjum and Deepak finished 18th in the 29 team field and were knocked out in the first round itself. 

There was much expected from our shooting contingent and it has been complete disaster so far.  

Table Tennis - Sharath Kamal started off really well against China's world no 3 La Mong in the men's 3rd round match. It was close till the third game and end of it it was 2-1 for Mong. After that Mong stepped up a notch and Sharath couldn't match up in the 4th and 5th games. Sharath lost 4-1. With that our Table Tennis events comes to an end.    

India at Tokyo 2020 - what to look forward on Day 5 - 27th July 2021

 

Badminton - 

8:30 am - Rankireddy and Chirag will take on the Britain's Ben Lane and Sean Vendy in their last group match. They should win this and will make it to the quarters.  

Boxing - 

10:57 am - Lovlina Borgohain who got a first round bye will be in action in the round of 16 match at 10:57 am against Germany's Narine Apetz. 

Hockey - 

6:30 am - Indian men take on Spain in Pool A match at 6:30 am

Sailing - 

We have all 4 of our sailors in actions. 

8:35 am - Nethra Kumanan will be in action in races 5 and 6

9:35 am - Vishnu Saravanan will be in action in races 4, 5 and 6

11:20 am - Ganapathy and Varun will be in action in 49er in races 1, 2 and 3

Shooting - 10m Air Pistol mixed team and 10 m Air rifle mixed team - We have 2 team's each. 

5:30 am - Pistol Qualification is at 5:30 am and Bronze medal match is at 7:30 am Gold medal match is at 8:07 am. 

9:45 am - Rifle Qualification is at 9:45 am and Bronze medal match is at 11:45 am and Finals at 12:22 pm. 

Table Tennis - Sharath Kamal is the only one left in the competition 

8:30 am - Sharath will take on China's world no 3 La Mong in the men's 3rd round match. I think with that we will end our competition in Table Tennis   

Medal possibilities -  All 4 Teams in the Shooting mixed team events 

India at Tokyo 2020 - what to look forward on Day 4 - 26th July 2021

 

Archery - 

6am Men's teams event starts with pre-quarters at 6 am.

10:15am Quarters till finals happen back to back from till 1:30 pm. 

India take on Kazakhstan in pre quarters and will face Korea in quarters if we win against Kazakhstan.  

Badminton -

9:10 am Rankireddy and Chirag will take on the top seed Indonesian team 

Boxing - Ashish Kumar will be in action in his round of 32 match at 3:06pm against China's Erbieke Touhita 

Fencing - 

5:30 am - Bhavani Devi in Women's sabre takes on Tunisia's Nadia Ben Azizi in the round of 64. All round till final happens on the same day back to back. 

Round of 32 from 6:25 -8am

Round of 16 from 10:05 -10:55am

Hockey - Indian women take on Germany in Pool A match at 5:45 pm

Sailing - 

8:35am Vishnu Saravanan has the second race at and third race in couple of hours

11:05am - Nethra Kumanan has her 3rd race

Shooting - 

6:30am - Men's Trap day 2 Qualification - We have Mairaj and Angad in action and finals is at 12:20 pm. 

Swimming - 

3:59pm Sajan will be in action in the 200m Butterfly event heats at 3:59 pm

Table Tennis - 

6:30 am- Sharath Kamal takes on Portugal's Tiago Apolonia in the second round

8:30 am - Suhirtha will take on Portugal's Fu Yu in the second round

1 pm - Manika Batra will take on Austria's Sofia Polnacova in the third round.  Austrian is ranked 17th in the world

Tennis - 

Around 10-10:30 am - Sumit Nagal will take on world no 2 Daniil Medvedev in the second round match

Medal possibilities  - None for the day. 

India at Tokyo 2020 - Review of day 3 performance 25-July

Artistic Gymnastics - Pranati Nayak finished 79th out of 80 contestants in overall.  

Badminton - 

Sindhu beat Israel's Ksenia Polikarpova in straight games without much issue.  

Boxing 

MC Mary Kom beat Dominican Republic's GARCIA Miguelina HERNANDEZ 4-1. It was even stevens after first 2 rounds but Mary came out steonger in the third round to win  

Manish Kaushik lost to Britain's Luke McCormack 4-1. This was also a close match till second round. In the third round the British came out stronger to defeat Manish. 

Hockey - 

Indian were thrashed by Australia 7-1 in pool A match. It is better to forget about this match and move on.  

Rowing

Indian pair finished 3rd and qualified for the semi finals.  Great performance by Arjun and Arvind. Hoping they gonone step further 

Shooting -  

Yashaswini Deswal  and Manu Bhaker finished 12th and 13th in the qualifiers. Manu I heard had a malfunction with her pistol and lost sometime. She was for a large part of time in top 5 but missed out in the last few shots. Yashaswini started with a 94 in the first series and was finding it difficult to get into top 10. 

Divyansh Panwar and Deepak Kumar finished a poor 32nd and 26th. Both of them started poorly shooting a 102 in first series and couldn't get going. 

Mairaj and Angad finished with 71 and 73 end of 3rd round. Mairaj started with 25 and 24 in the first 2 rounds but dropped to a 22 in 3rd round and dropped down. Angad shot 24, 25 and 24 in the three rounds. Hope both have a better day tomorrow and make it to the finals. 

Sailing - 

Nethra Kumanan finished 33rd and 16th in the first two races. She was in top 4 in the second race mid way but dropped down.  

Vishnu Saravanan finished 14th in his first race. His second race got postponed to tomorrow.  

Let us hope they both have better days tomorrow and day after. 

Swimming - 

Maana patel finished 2nd in her 100m backstroke heat which was the slowest heat. She has a PB of 1.03:77 and swam a 1.05:20 today. She finished 39th out of 41 swimmers

Srihari was in the 3rd heat and swam a 54.31. He qualified for olympics swimming a 53.77 and if he had swam that he would have made it to the semis. Sadly not to be. 

Table Tennis -

Sathiyan was leading 3-1 against Hong Kong's Siu Hang Lam but sadly lost 4-3

Manika Batra took on Ukraine's Maragaryta Pesotska in another second round match. Manika came back from 0-2 and 2-3 to defeat the 20th seeded Ukrainian 4-3. 

Tennis 

7:30am Saina and Ankita lost their first round doubles match to the Ukraine Kichenok sisters in 3 sets. They won the first set 6-0 and were a break up in second but just blew it. The Ukranians ran 8 point lead in the third set tie break and the Indians clawed back to 8-8 but lost eventually.  

Overall a disappointing day. Rowers were the standout performance of the day

India at Tokyo 2020 - Review of day 2 performance 24-July

 

Archery - There was a change in the team as the management felt Pravin was shooting better than Atanu. They faced Chinese Taipei in the pre-quarters and they won that match 5-3. As mentioned yesterday,  due to the poor performance of the men in the ranking round, our team ranking also got affected.  We were against the eventual champions Korea in the quarters and we lost the match 6-2. We were completely outclassed by the Koreans. 

Rowing - Arvind Lal and Arjun finished 5th in thr Men's Light weight  double skulls heats. Given that their aim was to get a Top 12 finish, have to watch what they do in the Repachage round tomorrow.   Their timing was the 10th best in the field. 

Weightlifting - Mirabhai Chanu won the first medal for India and as expected got a silver.  Once the Chinese liftedba olymoic record 94kg in the snatch and tookna 7 kg lead over Chanu, it was going to be an uphill task for Chanu. Happy that she put to rest the misery of Rio 2016 where she didnt have even a single clean and jerk lift which caused her to miss out on a medal. 

Shooting - Elavenil and Apurvi both got knocked out in the qualification round itself. Elavenil finished 16th and Apurvi 36th. Around the 4th series Elavenil was as high at 11th but didn't finish well. Apurvi was down in mid 20s most of the time and finished a poor 36th. In the Air pistol event both Saurabh and Abhishek started poorly in the first round. Saurabh started shooting better from 2nd round and finished on top in the qualifiers. Abhishek started shooting better from the 3rd round. He was in top 5 till the last 3 shots and shot couple of 8s and that ruined his changes of making the finals and he ended up 17th. In the finals Saurabh starred very poorly and that ruined his changes. He was 8th at the end of first 10 shots but finished 7th and was the second to be knocked out in the finals. Overall a disappointing performance from our shooters today. 

Badminton - Sai Praneeth continued his recent poor form and lost to Israel's Misha Zilbermann tamely in straight sets ruining his changes of progressing beyond group stage. The surprise result was the doubles team of Rankireddy and Chirag beating the third seed Chinese Taipei Team in a hard fought match in 3 games. 

Hockey - Indian men started off their campaign with a victory over New Zealand.  New zealand had an early lead and India came back to lead 3-1 before conceding a goal in the 4th quarter. The Indian women played beautifully against the strong Dutch till mid of third quarter holding them 1-1 before losing 5-1. 

Judo - Shushila Likmabam lost to Hungary's Eva CSERNOVICZKI in her round of 32 match and ended her campaign.  

Table Tennis - Sharath Kamal and Manika Batra lost to the 3rd Seeded Chinese Taipei Team in straight games. The Taipei team was way too strong for the Indian pair. 

Manika Batra defeated British HO Tin-Tin in straight games. Even though Manika gave 4-5 point lead in 3rd and 4th games she was strong for the Britisher. 

Suhirtha defeated Sweden's Linda Bergstroem 4-3. The match was going back and forth till the last game where Suhirtha came out on top. 

Tennis - Sumit Nagal defeated Denis Istomin in 3 

Boxing - Vikas was defeated by Japan's Sewonrets Quincy Mensah OKAZAWA in an unanimous decision 5-0.  Vikas was completely out played by the Japanese boxer. Vikas had no clue against the Japanese boxer. I was personally expecting much from the experienced Vikas but he lost tamely. 

India at Tokyo 2020 - what to look forward on Day 3 - 25th July 2021

 

Artistic Gymnastics - We have Pranati Nayak who will be in action in the Qualification round from 6:30am.

Badminton - 

7:10 am Sindhu in the group stage match against Israel's Ksenia Polikarpova 

Boxing - 

1:30pm - We will have women's fly category with MC Mary Kom against Dominican Republic's GARCIA Miguelina HERNANDEZ

3:06pm Men's lightweight with Manish Kaushik against Britain's Luke McCormack 

Both round of 32 match

Hockey - 

3pm Indian men take on Australia in pool A match.

Rowing

6:40 am our team will be in the repachage round to finalize their ranking 

Shooting - 

5:30 am - 10m Air Pistol Women's Qualification at 7:45 am - Finals  

Yashaswini Deswal  and Manu Bhaker will be in action. 

9:30 am - 10m Air Rifle Men's Qualification

12 noon - Finals

Divyansh Panwar and Deepak Kumar will be in action. 

6:30 am day 1 of Skeet Qualification and Mairaj and Angad will be in action.

Sailing - 

8:35 am - Nethra Kumanan will be in action in the races 1 and 2 and 

11:05 am - Vishnu Saravanan will be in action in the races 1 and 2 in his category.

Swimming - 

3:30 pm - Maana patel will be in action in the women's 100m backstroke heats and 

4:49pm - Srihari in the men's 100m backstroke heats. 

Table Tennis -

10:30 am Sathiyan  in the second round match against Hong Kong's Siu Hang Lam

12 noon Manika Batra takes on Ukraine's Maragaryta Pesotska in the second round match

Tennis 

7:30am Saina and Ankita will play their first round doubles match against the Ukraine Kichenok sisters 

Medal possibilities - All 4 shooters in 10m Air Rifle and 10m Air Pistol events. 

India at Tokyo 2020 - what to look forward on Day 2 - 24th July 2021

 

Archery - Mixed Team Deepika Kumari and Atanu Das will be in action. The Pre-Quarters are at 6am where they take on the Chinese Taipei Team. Quarters to Finals happen back to back from 10:45 am to around 1:30 pm. India will face Korea if we get to the Quarters. Men ranking so low after the individual rankings round has impacted the team rankings along with their individual rankings. Men's team will also face the mighty Koreans in Quarters if they win their first round match against Kazakhstan   

Rowing - We have Arvind Lal and Arjun Singh who will be participating in the Men's Light weight  double skulls category. They are in Heat 2 and will be around 7:30 am. 

Weightlifting - Mirabhai Chanu will be in action in the 49kg category. There contestants are segregated into two groups A and B. The top contenders will be in Group A which starts around 10:20 am. Group B happens at 6:20 am. Mirabhai is in Group A. 

Shooting - We have 10m women's Air Rifle Qualification at 5 am and finals at 7:15 am -  Elavenil and Apurvi will be in action. The 10m Air pistol qualification is at 9:30 am and Finals at 12 noon - Saurabh Chaudhary and Abhishek Verma will be in action

Badminton - Group stage matches - Men's Doubles Satwik and Chirag will be in action at around 8:50 am and Sai Praneeth will be in action at around 9:30 am 

Hockey - Indian men take on New Zealand at 6:30 am in pool A match and Women take on Netherlands at 5:15 pm in pool A match. 

Judo - Shushila Likmabam will be in action in the women's 48kg category. Action starts at 7:30. All events up to Gold medal match will be completed on 24th itself. The afternoon sessions start at 1:30 pm. She will be taking on Hungary's Eva CSERNOVICZKI in her round of 32 match. 

Table Tennis - We have the Pre-Quarters for the mixed event - Sharath Kamal and Manika Batra will be in action against 3rd Seeded Chinese Taipei Team at around 8:30 am. Manika Batra will also be in action in Singles against British HO Tin-Tin(ranked lower than Manika and Manika is 2-0 in head to head) at around 12:15 pm and Suhirtha will take on Sweden's Linda Bergstroem (ranked higher than Suhirtha and it's a 1-1 in head to head) at around 1 pm. Sharath and Sathyan have got first round bye. 

Tennis - Sumit Nagal (who was a last minute addition) Denis Istomin (WR 197) at around 9am

Boxing - Vikas Krishan will be in action at around 3:50 pm in his round of 32 match against Japan's Sewonrets Quincy Mensah OKAZAWA.  Amit Panghal, Satish Kumar, Simranjeet & Lovlina Borgohain have all received first round byes and are directly into round of 16

Medal Prospects - Mira Bhai Chanu in weightlifting, All 4 shooters, Archery Mixed team(which has become doubtful post the individual ranking rounds)