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.