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Tokyo Olympics 2021 Highlights: Mary Kom bows out with a smile

Sindhu will play her quarterfinal match against Akane Yamaguchi of Japan on July 30.

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Indian contingent has made a winning start on Day 6 of Tokyo Olympics 2021 as archer Atanu Das defeated two-time Olympic Gold medalist Jinhyek Oh of South Korea and advanced to men's individual pre-quarterfinal. Early in the morning, reigning world champion P V Sindhu sailed into the women's singles quarterfinals after beating Denmark's Mia Blichfeldt in straight games. While India men's hockey won their match against defending gold-medalist Argentina 3-1. Boxer Satish Kumar too made a winning start of his Olympics 2021 campaign as he defeated Jamaican boxer in round-of-16 match of heavyweight category.

Check Tokyo 2020 live coverage of India events on July 30 here

However, six-time world champion M C Mary Kom's (51kg) pursuit of a second Olympic medal ended in the pre-quarterfinals of the Tokyo Games as she went down to 2016 edition's bronze-medallist Ingrit Valencia in a fiercely-fought showdown on Thursday. The funny part, Mary Kom had actually won two of the three rounds.

Tokyo 2020 Medal Tally

ALSO READ: Tokyo Olympics 2021 India contingent: List of Indian athletes, officials


India in Badminton today

Playing aggressive and deceptive shots that kept her opponent on the run throughout the match, Sindhu outplayed Mia in just 41 minutes.

Mia, who was ranked 11th in the world a couple of years back, had sent Sindhu packing from the Thailand Open in January this year, found the Indian star, silver medallist at the Rio Olympics and gunning for gold here, too strong on Thursday and could not play her usual game as Sindhu took control from the start.

Sindhu will play her quarterfinal match against Akane Yamaguchi of Japan.

 ALSO READ: Olympics 2021: Badminton full schedule, match time, live telecast in India

India in Shooting today
 
Manu Bhaker finished the qualification round of precision at 5th spot with a score of 292. While her compatriot Rahi Sarnobat is at 25th position with a score of 287. Serbia's Zorana Arunovic, who shot a stunning 296 to lead the pack, is in first place. 

Will Manu be able to maintain her speed in the quick qualifying? Can Rani make up for lost time? We will find it tomorrow 

Tomorrow, July 30th, is the fast stage, followed by the finals. 



 The 44-strong women's sport pistol field on day six of the Olympic Shooting competition mirrors the Air Pistol competition on day two and will feature all of the finalists from that event, with the exception of the Chinese, who have changed personnel.


RESULTS: India on Day 6 of Tokyo Olympics

Rowing: Arjun Lal and Arvind Singh finish 11th in lightweight double sculls. [India's highest ever finish in the event]
Women's singles badminton: Sindhu wins in straight sets, enters quarterfinals.
Men's hockey: India beats Argentina 3-1.
Men's individual Archery: Atanu Das advances to pre-quarters, after defeating two-time olympic gold medalist Jinhyek Oh of South Korea
Men's heavyweight boxing: India's Satish Kumar enterns next round, to play world champion Bakhodir Jalalov in the quarterfinals.
Women's 25m Pistol Qualification round (precision) Day 1 ends: Manu Bhaker at 5th, Rahi Sarnobat at 25th.

India schedule today at Tokyo Olympics 2021

Golf
Event Indian participants Time Results
Men' round 1 Anirban Lahiri Underway TBD
Udayay S Mane TBD
Rowing
LWT Men's Double Sculls Final B Arvind and Arjun ENDS Finishes fifth
Shooting
25m Pistol Women's Qualification Rahi Sarnobat Ends 5th position
Manu Bhaker 25th position
Hockey
Men's Pool A India vs Argentina India wins 3-1
Archery
Men's individual 1/32 Eliminations Atanu Das vs Yu-Cheng Deng (Chinese Taipei) WINS 6-4
 
Boxing
Mens Super Heavy (+91 kg) Satish Kumar vs Ricardo Brown (Jamaica Satish wins 4-1
Women's Flyweight (48-51kg) Round of 16 MC Mary Kom vs Ingrit Lorena Victoria Valencia (Colombia) ENDS Loses
Swimming
Men's 100 m Butterfly - Heat 2 Sajjan Prakash ENDS Finishes 46th overall
Badminton
Women's singles PV Sindhu vs Mia Blichfeldt (Denmark) Sindhu wins 21-15, 21-13
 
Olympics 2021: India in Boxing on July 29

India's first super heavyweight (+91kg) boxer to compete in the Olympics, Satish Kumar, eased into the quarterfinals of his debut Games, defeating Jamaica's Ricardo Brown in his opening bout today.

In the battle of the debutants, the 32-year-old Satish prevailed 4-1, a comfortable win for him despite the split verdict.

The two-time Asian Championships bronze-winner Indian, who has been a multiple-time national champion, was helped by Brown's poor footwork throughout the bout though he did end up sustaining two cuts -- one on his forehead and the other on his chin.

"He got cuts because of three head butts during the bout. But it was a very measured performance by Satish, he could have been in trouble had Brown connected because he was huge and powerful," Indian boxing's High Performance Director Santiago Nieva told PTI.

Next up for Satish is Uzebkistan's Bakhodir Jalolov, the reigning world and Asian champion. Jalolov out-punched Azerbaijan's Mahammad Abdullayev 5-0 in his last-16 bout.

"He is not unbeatable. Although Satish has never won against him but the last time they fought in the India Open, it was split verdict. He ran him close," Nieva said.

Satish, also a 2018 Commonwealth Games silver-medallist, dominated with his right hand and allowed Brown to repeatedly make the mistake of lunging in with very little balance.

Olympics 2021: India vs Argentina men’s hockey

India men's hockey team defeated defending Olympic Champion Argentina by 3-1 in their fourth group A game.
 
With this win, the Indian men's hockey team has qualified for the quarterfinals in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

India started the match at a good pace as defenders gave no clear-cut chance to defending champion to find that rhythm in midfield. Dilpreet Singh had India's best chance in quarter one but it was kept out by the Argentine goalkeeper by a very good save.

India's finishing was not clinical even in the second quarter and it remained scoreless after the end of the first half.

In the third quarter, the pressure by Indian forwards finally delivered as Varun Kumar gave the team a much-needed breakthrough after converting a very well worked penalty corner. In the dying minutes of the quarter, Graham Reid's men were close to double their lead but Argentina goalkeeper Juan Manuel came big for his team again by saving a nicely worked PC by the Indian team.In the fourth quarter, Argentina responded well by converting a PC and levelled the match against India as Casella stormed the ball past Sreejesh.

With the match going for a draw, Vivek Sagar Prasad came with an absolute poacher of a finish to regain the lead for the team. Minutes later Harmanpreet Singh came clutch for India from PC and sealed the match for India.

After this victory, India has now won three matches in their group.

 

6:39 PM

Following is India's schedule on the seventh day of the Tokyo Olympics on Friday, July 30

Archery:
 
Deepika Kumari vs Ksenia Perova (Russian Olympic Committee) in Women's Individual Pre-quarterfinals Match: 6:00am IST.
 
Athletics:
 
Avinash Sable in Men's 3000m Steeplechase Round 1 Heat 2: 6:17am IST.
 
M P Jabir in Men's 400m Hurdles Round 1 Heat 5: 8:27am IST.
 
Dutee Chand in Women's 100m Round 1 Heats: 8:45am IST Start.
 
Mixed 4x400m Relay Race Round 1 Heat 2: 4:42pm IST.
 
Badminton:
 
P V Sindhu vs Akane Yamaguchi (Japan) in Women's Singles Quarterfinal Match: 1:15pm IST.
 
Boxing:
 
Simranjit Kaur vs Sudaporn Seesondee (Thailand) in Women's 60kg Round of 16 Bout: 8:18am IST.
 
Lovlina Borgohain vs Nien-Chin Chen (Chinese Taipei) in Women's 69kg Quarterfinal Bout: 8:48am IST.
 
Equestrian:
 
Fouaad Mirza in Eventing Dressage Day 1 Session 2: Starts at 2pm IST.
 
Golf:
 
Anirban Lahiri and Udayan Mane in Men's Individual Stroke Play Round 2: 04:00am IST.
 
Hockey:
 
India vs Ireland in Women's Pool A Match: 8:15am IST.
 
India vs Japan in Men's Pool A match: 3:00pm IST.
 
Sailing:
 
KC Ganapathy and Varun Thakkar in Men's Skiff 49er Race 7, 8 and 9: 8:35am IST.
 
Nethra Kumanan in Women's Laser Radial Race 9 and 10: 8:35am IST.
 
Vishnu Saravanan in Men's Laser Race 9 and 10: 11:05am IST.
 
Shooting:
 
Manu Bhaker and Rahi Sarnobat in Women's 25m Pistol Qualification Rapid: 5:30am IST.
 
Women's 25m Pistol Final at 10:30am IST.
6:32 PM

Here are the results on Thursday, July 29

BOXING
Women's flyweight round of 16: MC Mary Kom lost to Colombia's Ingrit Valencia Victoria 3-2.
 
BADMINTON
Women's singles: PV Sindhu into quarterfinals with a 21-15, 21-13 win over Mia Blichfeldt of Denmark.
 
ARCHERY
Men's individual round of 32 (1/16 eliminations)
 
Atanu Das stunned Korea's Oh Jin-Hyek 6-5 to advance to the round of 16. With Deepika Kumari still in contention in the women's individual event (she plays next on Friday), Atanu and Deepika are India's best chance for an Olympic archery gold.
 
HOCKEY
Men's pool A: -- India beat Argentina 3-1 to enter the quarterfinals.
 
SHOOTING
25m Pistol Women's Qualification Precision
 
Manu Bhaker and Rahi Sarnobat finished 5th and 25th, respectively, in the first qualification stage. The second, rapid stage is on Friday, July 30. They take 30 shots in precision and 30 in rapid. You can read more about the qualification rules and points systems here.
 
BOXING
Men's super-heavyweight round-of-16: Satish Kumar beat Ricardo Brown of Jamaica by a 4-1 split decision.
 
GOLF
Anirban Lahiri was tied eighth the end of the first of four rounds after in impressive 4-under 67, while Udayan Mane was 60th after carding 5-over 76.
 
SAILING
Men's skiff 49er: KC Ganapathy and Varun Thakkar finished seventh in race 6 (out of 12). They are currently in 17th place overall, out of 19 teams.
 
Men's one person dinghy laser: Vishnu Saravanan finished 23rd in race 8 (out of 10), and is in 23rd position overall.
 
Women's one person dinghy laser radial: Nethra Kumanan finishes 20th in race 8 (out of 10), and is in 31st place overall.
 
ROWING
Lightweight men's sculls final B -- Arjun Lal and Arvind Singh finish 11th. India's highest-ever finish in the event.
 
SWIMMING
Men's 100m butterfly heats: Sajan Prakash finished 2nd in his heat, 46th overall .
 
6:18 PM

Olympics: Djokovic defeats Nishikori to enter semi-finals

Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic cruised into the semi-finals of men's singles event at the Tokyo Olympics here at Ariake Tennis Park on Thursday.

The world number one registered a dominant straight-sets 6-2, 6-0 win over Japan's Kei Nishikori in just 72 minutes.

Djokovic, whose best result in Olympics was a bronze medal in Beijing 2008, was not broken even once in the match. Nishikori, considered the local favourite, made 16 unforced errors.

5:16 PM

Olympics 2021 live updates: Sajan Prakash's campaign ends

Men's 100m butterfly heats: Sajan Prakash finishes 46th overall. 
 
He clocked 53.45 seconds in his heat and finished second. 
 
Prakash's campaign in Tokyo Olympics 2020 ends here.
4:20 PM

Olympics 2021 live updates: Swimming

Men's 100m butterfly heats: Sajan Prakash clocks 53.45, comes second in his heat.

 
4:13 PM

Olympics 2021 live updates: Swimming

 
 
Men's 100m butterfly heats: 4:16 pm -- Sajan Prakash in action
3:55 PM

Olympics 2021 live updates: Women's boxing: Mary Kom loses to Ingrit Valencia (Round of 16 of Fly 48-51kg)

Six-time world champion M C Mary Kom's (51kg) pursuit of a second Olympic medal ended in the pre-quarterfinals of the Tokyo Games as she went down to 2016 edition's bronze-medallist Ingrit Valencia in a fiercely-fought showdown here on Thursday.

The 38-year-old legend, who is a multiple-time Asian champion and a bronze-winner from the 2012 London olympics, lost 2-3 to the Colombian, giving it her all in what would now be her final Olympic bout.

Mary Kom had tears in her eyes and a wide smile on her face when the referee raised Valencia's hand at the end of the bout, exhausted after the intense clash.

The Indian had earlier beaten Valencia in the 2019 world championship quarterfinals and it was the Colombian's first career win over the icon. 


3:53 PM

Olympics 2021 live updates: Women's boxing: Mary Kom vs Ingrit Valencia (Round of 16 of Fly 48-51kg)

 
 
 
Round 3: Mary Kom gets the second round in her favour but here comes the final round. Mary Kom looks to make the most of it, she lands a few punches but her opponent is animated too. Stiff competition between the two as the clock ticks away. Some body blows in between. Tough to say who is ahead in this round, both are equally good. Last few seconds and Mary Kom invites her opponent to attack. It ends, lets see who gets it.
3:48 PM

Olympics 2021 live updates: Women's boxing: Mary Kom vs Ingrit Valencia (Round of 16 of Fly 48-51kg)

 
 
Round 2: Valencia gets the first round but Mary Kom looks to attack right from the start. Combination punches lands right where Mary Kom looks to attack. Continous attack from Mary Kom she is going for it. Valencia looks to defend but Mary Kom is all over the ring. She has dominated the round. Looks like she is ahead in this round. 
 
3:44 PM

Olympics 2021 live updates: Women's boxing: Mary Kom vs Ingrit Valencia (Round of 16 of Fly 48-51kg)

 
 
 
Round 1: Mary Kom tackles her opponent with all her might. Ingrit Valencia is unfazed. Mary Kom dodges a few punches, and sends a message with a few. It is a neck-to-neck fight so far. Tough to say who is dominating as both maintain the attack and defence well. Some body blows in the middle by Mary Kom. Looks like Mary Kom has managed to get some points here. Great spectacle here. 
3:40 PM

Olympics 2021 live updates: Women's boxing: Mary Kom vs Ingrit Lorenna (Round of 16 of Fly 48-51kg)

Mary Kom adn her opponent have entered the ring, action is about to begin!
3:29 PM

Mary Kom will be in action at 3:36 pm

Six-time world champion Mary Kom (51kg) powered into the Olympic Games’ pre-quarterfinals after defeating Dominican Republic’s Miguelina Hernandez Garcia in the opening round on Sunday.  Mary Kom will take on Ingrit Lorenna of Colombia in the Round of 16 of women’s Fly (48-51kg) category. 
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2:37 PM

Mary Kom will be in action at 3:36 pm

Mary Kom will be in action at 3:36 pm in her last-16 bout in the women's 51kg category. Sajan Prakash will be in action in 100m men's butterfly heat 2.
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