India at Tokyo 2020 - what to look forward on Day 13 - 4th August 2021

 

Athletics - 

5:35 am - Javelin Throw Qualification - Neeraj Chopra will be in action in Group A

7:05 am - Javelin Throw Qualification - Shivpal Singh will be in action in Group B

Boxing -  

11 am - Lovlina will take on Turkey's Busenaz Surmeneli another former World champion  

Golf -

4 am - Women's Golf - Aditi Ashok & Diksha Dagar will be in action on day 1 

Hockey - 

3:30 pm - Women's Semi finals India take on Argentina. Hope the women make it to the finals. 

Wrestling - 

8 am - Ravi Kumar will be in action in the pre-quarters against Columbia's Oscar Tigeros. Quarters will happen immediately after the pre-quarters and semis at 2:45 pm

8am - Anshu Malik will be in action in the pre-quarters against Belarus' Iryna Kurachkina. Quarters will happen immediately after the pre-quarters and semis at 2:45 pm. She may face the Rio Olympics silver medalist from Russia in quarters if she wins her match 

8 am - Deepak Punia will be in action in the pre-quarters against Nigeria's Ekrekeme Agiomor. Quarters will happen immediately after the pre-quarters and semis at 2:45 pm.  

Medal possibilities - Ravi Kumar and Deepak Punia in Wrestling, Indian women can get to the finals in Hockey. Lovlina can become the first Indian women to get to the boxing finals at Olympics. 

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.