Paris Olympics 2024 highlights, Day 1: IND def NZ 3-2 in hockey; Satwik-Chirag wins vs FRA

Olympics 2024 LIVE UPDATES: India defeated New Zealand in hockey 3-2 to start their campaign. In Badminton Satwik-Chirag secures comfortable win against France. Catch Paris 2024 highlights here

On the first day of Paris Olympics 2024, India failed to open its medal account as Sandeep Singh/Elavenil Valarivan and Arjun Babuta/Ramita Jindal finished 12th and 6th in the qualification round. In the same event's final, Kazakhastan beat Germany in the Bronze medal match to win first medal of Paris 2024. China won the first Gold medal of Olympics 2024, while South Korea won the first Silver.

Paris Olympics 2024 MEDAL TALLY

However, India finally recieved a good news after shooter Manu Bhaker qualified for the finals of women's 10m air pistol event after finishing third in the qualification round. Earlier, Sarabjot  Singh narrowly missed out on qualifying for the finals of men's 10m air pistol event after finished one spot below the qualification mark at number 9. Noatbly, the men's doubles tennis mach of Rohan Bopanna and N Sriram Balaji was postponed to Sunday due to rain.

India's badminton campaign started on a high as Lakshya Sen defeated Kevin Cordon by 21-8 and 22-20 in his first match before Satwik and Chirag continued India's successful badmintion campaign by defeating thier French counterparts by 21-17 and 21-14. In table tennis Harmeet Desai defeated Jordan's Zaid by 11-7, 11-9, 11-5 and 11-5 to enter the main round.

India men's hockey team defaeted New Zealand by 3-2 after traing 0-1 after first quarter to start thier Olympics journey on a high. Pugilist Preeti Pawar wins her round of 32 match against Vietnam's Kim Thi Anh Vo and punched her ticket to the round of 16. However, India suffered a defeat in thier final match of day 1 as Indian duo of Ashwini Ponnappa and Tanisha Crasto lost thier first baminton women's double match against South Korea's Kim and Kong.

India schedule on July 27
Matches	Athletes in action today	Time	Result
BADMINTON
Men's singles group match	Lakshya Sen vs Kevin Cordon (Guatemala)	7:10 PM IST	Win (21-8 and 22-20)
Men's doubles group match	Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty vs Lucas Corvee and Ronan Labar (France)	8 PM IST	Win (21-17 and 21-14)
Women's doubles group match	Ashwini Ponnappa and Tanisha Crasto vs Kim So Yeong and Kong Hee Yong (Korea)	11:50 PM IST	Lost (18-21 and 10-21)
BOXING
Women's 54kg opening round bout	Preeti Pawar vs Thi Kim anh Vo (Vietnam)	12.05 AM IST	Wins and qualifies for round of 16
HOCKEY
Pool B match	India vs New Zealand	9 PM IST	IND 3-2 NZ
ROWING
Men's single sculls	Panwar Balraj	12:30 PM IST	Qualified for repechage
TABLE TENNIS
Men's singles preliminary round	Harmeet Desai vs Zaid Abo Yaman of Jordan	7:15 PM IST	Win (11-7, 11-9, 11-5 and 11-5)
TENNIS
Men's doubles first round match	Rohan Bopnna and N Sriram Balaji vs Edouard Roger-Vasselin and Fabien Reboul (France)	3:30 PM IST (Postponed to 28 July)	TBD
SHOOTING
10m air rifle mixed team qualification	Sandeep Singh/Elavenil Valarivan, Arjun Babuta/Ramita Jindal	12:30 PM IST	Finished sixth
10m air pistol men's qualification	Arjun Singh Cheema and Sarabjot Singh	2 PM IST	Sarabjot finshed ninth while Arjun finshed on eighteenth position.
10m air pistole women's qualification	Manu Bhaker and Rhythm Sangwan	4 PM IST	Manu qualifies for the finals (#3) while Rhythm gets eliminated (#15)

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