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Tokyo Olympics 2020, Day 3 Live Updates: Swimmer Sajan Prakash Fails to Qualify for Semis; Boxer Ashish Kumar Loses
Tokyo Olympics 2020, Day 3 Live Updates: Swimmer Sajan Prakash finished 24th and failed to qualify for the 200m butterfly semi-finals after boxer Ashish Kumar lost in the round of 32 of middleweight and Manika Batra's journey came to an end in the 3rd round. Indian Skeet shooters Mairaj and Angad failed to make the cut for the men's final and the men's archery team lost in the quarters.
Tokyo Olympics 2020, Day 3 Live Updates: Sajan Prakash failed to qualify for the semis as he finished 24th in the swimming 200m butterfly event. Manika Batra was blown away by her Austrian opponent Sofia Polcanova in their third-round clash as the world number 17 won the contest 4-0. Sharath Kamal reached the third round of the men’s singles campaign, however, it was the end of the road for paddler Sutirtha Mukherjee. In tennis, Sumit Nagal was shown the door by World number two Daniil Medvedev as the Russian won the contest in straight sets (6-2, 6-1). Indian Skeet shooters Angad Bajwa and Mairaj Ahamd were knocked out after they finished 18th and 25th respectively. Men’s Archery team of Atanu Das, Pravin Jadhav and Tarundeep Rai were ousted by top seed South Korea in the quarterfinal stage. The Koreans won the contest 6-0. India’s men’s doubles badminton pair of Satwaik Sairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty to lost their Group A match against world number one pair of Marcus Fernaldi Gideon and Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo. CA Bhavani Devi who scripted history by becoming the first Indian fencer to qualify for the Olympics has crashed out after losing her second-round match to fourth seed Manon Brunet of France. She had beaten Nadia Ben Azizi of Tunisia 15-3 in the first.
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Tokyo Olympics Live Updates: Table Tennis
Thank you so much for all your love. I will note down the mistakes and work on them so that I don't make the same mistakes again - Manika Batra looks disappointed with the loss.
Tokyo Olympics LIVE: Table Tennis
"Sorry if I haven't been able to reply to people but I saw the messages now and I felt very happy that so many people were cheering for me from their homes." - Manika Batra on Insta Live
India’s lone gymnast at Tokyo Olympics, Pranati Nayak failed to qualify for the all-round final of artistic gymnastics competition on Sunday.
Tokyo Olympics 2020: Swimming
Sajan Prakash of India finishes in 24th position overall and does not qualify for the semi-finals.
Tokyo Olympics 2020: Swimming
India's Sajan Prakash finished fourth in Men’s 200m Butterfly Heat 2 with a time of 1:57.22!
The Indian's hope is all but over as there are 5 Heats with only the top 16 from all the races combined.
Tokyo Olympics 2020: Swimming
India's Sajan Prakash is in action in the Men’s 200m Butterfly Heats! There are 5 Heats with only the top 16 from all the races combined.
Best Wishes and God Speed to Sajan Prakash for the 200 Butterfly heats today #Tokyo2020 #Cheer4India pic.twitter.com/K20hjJlK6t
— @swimmingfederationofindia (@swimmingfedera1) July 26, 2021
Tokyo Olympics: Boxing
India's Ashish Kumar loses to China's Erbieke Tuoheta unanimous points decision!
Even though the Indian clinched the third round, his Chinese opponent bagged the clash having won the first two rounds.
Tokyo Olympics 2020: Boxing
India's Ashish Kumar (in red) does manage to get a few blows in but China's Erbieke Tuoheta (in blue) is fighting the more technical fight in the Round of 32 of Men's Middle Weight (69-75kg)
The Indian loses the second round as well unanimously.
Tokyo Olympics 2020: Boxing
India's Ashish Kumar (in red) lads quite a number of punches to the body and face of Erbieke Tuoheta (in blue) of China in the Round of 32 of Men's Middle Weight (69-75kg)
The Indian though lost the first round!
Tokyo Olympics 2020: Boxing
Up Next! India's Ashish Kumar faces Erbieke Tuoheta of China in the Round of 32 of Men's Middle Weight (69-75kg).
Tokyo 2020: Tennis
Novak Djokovic gets an easy win!
Top-ranked tennis Djokovic remains on course for a Golden Slam after a 6-4, 6-3 win over Jan-Lennard Struff of Germany at the Tokyo Games.
Djokovic is attempting to become the first man to win all four Grand Slam titles and Olympic gold in the same calendar year.
The Serb already won the Australian and French Opens as well as Wimbledon this year. He now needs the Tokyo title and the U.S. Open trophy to complete the unique collection.
Steffi Graf was the only tennis player to achieve the Golden Slam in 1988.
Djokovic will next face 16th-seeded Alejandro Davidovich Fokina of Spain. Davidovich Fokina edged John Millman of Australia 6-4, 6-7 (4), 6-3.
Kristian Blummenfelt was left soaked in water and sweat after the punishing swimming leg for the rest of the men's triathlon at the Tokyo Olympics.
South Korea, Take a Bow!
Anyone else in just complete awe of the Republic of Korea🇰🇷 archers!? 🤩
— #Tokyo2020 (@Tokyo2020) July 26, 2021
They have won every #archery #gold medal so far at #Tokyo2020 #UnitedByEmotion @olympiko pic.twitter.com/wpOuIOvxdr
Tokyo Olympics 2020: Sailing
Nethra Kumanan finishes race three in 15th place and race 4 in 40th.
She had finished 33rd in the first race of the women’s laser radial before recovering a bit by taking the 16th spot in the second.
She is now ranked 28th overall with total points of 104 and 64 net points.
Tokyo Olympics silver-medalist Mirabai Chanu stands a chance to be awarded the gold in the 49kg women’s weightlifting competition. Here's how
Tokyo 2020 Live: It’s gold for Vincent Hancock of USA in the men’s skeet shooting with an Olympic record at his fourth Olympics. Silver for Jesper Hansen of Denmark and Bronze goes to Kuwait's Abdullah Al Rashidi.
It was a fairly easy game for the Austrian paddler as she brushed aside Manika inside 30 minutes.
Tokyo 2020 Live: Table Tennis
Manika Batra loses to Austrian paddler Sofia Polcanova 0-4. Sofia won the fourth game 11-7 in just seven minutes.
Olympics 2020 Live Updates: Table Tennis
Manika is having a bad at the office, she's is struggling with of her forehands today. Pulcanova wins the third game 11-5. She is now just a game away from the win.
Tokyo 2020 Live: Table Tennis
The Austrian 10th seed raced onto a 6-point lead in the second game and gave Manika no chance for a comeback, she won the game 11-2
Tokyo Olympics Live: Table Tennis
Manika took the initial lead in the game but after that the Austrian paddler made a comeback. She had a healthy lead in the game for a while before Batra fought back. However, Polcanova won the game 11-8.
Tokyo Olympics 2020, Day 3 Live Updates: Britain’s Tom Daley and Matty Lee have won gold in men’s 10-meter synchronized diving, ending any chance of a sweep by China at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre.Daley and Lee sealed their victory with a brilliant final dive and received one perfect 10 from the judges. Every other mark but one was a 9.0 or 9.5.
Tokyo Olympics Live: Table Tennis
Well, after a delay of almost an hour, the women's table tennis round three match between Manika Batra and Sofia Polcanova is all set to begin.
Bruce Springsteen's Daughter to Make Debut at Tokyo Olympics as Part of US Equestrian Team
American singer Bruce Springsteen may have ruled the rock and country music scene in the eighties but now, his daughter is ready to make a name for herself as she makes her debut in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Jessica Springsteen will be competing against international players as a member of the US Equestrian Team.
Alaaeldin Abouelkassem of Egypt celebrates after winning a men's individual round of 16 Foil competition at the 2020 Summer Olympics (Photo Credit: AP)
Nagal Crashes Out#
Tokyo Olympics - Tennis
Nagal has lost his second round match to Medvedev in quick time 2-6, 1-6. The Indian is ousted of the Olympics here.
Tokyo Olympics - Tennis
Nagal with a lot of unforced errors is now trailing 1-4 in the second set after losing the first 2-6. Looks like he won't be able to get past the Russian.
Tokyo Olympics - Tennis
Medvedev is showing his class against the Indian. And in quick time has raced to a lead of 2-1 in the second set as well. Indian has a lot of work to do.
Jessica Springsteen will be riding a 12-year-old Belgian Warmblood stallion, Don Juan van de Donkhoeve, at the Toyko Olympics.
Tokyo Olympics - Tennis
And Medvedev has made short work of Nagal in the first set itself. The Russian has won it comfortably 6-2.
Indian swimmer Sajan Prakash (Twitter)
