133:Tokyo Olympics 2020 Day 7 India Highlights Lovlina Borgohain and PV Sindhu through to semi-finals; Deepika Kumari's journey ends
The Day 7 at Tokyo Olympics 2020 turned out to be a fantastic day for Indian contingent. Although India's only hopes of medal on Friday were squashed early in the morning with Manu Bhaker and Rahi Sarnobat getting knocked out of women's 25m air pistol qualification rapid event, the nation had some brilliant results on the day thereafter as PV Sindhu and Lovlina Borgohain secured their spots in the semi-finals, with the latter also ensuring a medal.
On the other hand, it was a good day in hockey as well with both men's and women's teams securing wins. While the men's team have already qualified for quarters, women's team have also kept themselves in the hunt with 1-0 win over Ireland. Here is how all the results for Indian contingent unfolded on Friday:
India's performance on Day 6 at Tokyo Olympics 2020
Archery - Women's Individual
World No. 1 Deepika Kumari defeated ROC's Ksenia Perova 6-5 in 1/8 Eliminations. However, the Indian Archer lost to South Korea's An San 0-6 in the quarter-finals stage.
Athletics - Women's 100m
India's Dutee Chand had a disappointing outing as she finished 7th in Heat 5 with a timing of 11.54 seconds and bowed out of the event.
Athletics - Men's 400m Hurdles
India's Jabir Madari Pillyalil finished last in Heat 5 with a timing of 50.77 and failed to make it to the semi-finals.
Athletics - Mixed 4x400m Relay
The Indian team, consisting of Muhammed Anas, Revathi Veeramani, Subha Venkatesan and Arokia Rajiv put on a disappointing performance as they finished last in Heat 2 with a timing of 3:19.93.
Athletics - Men's 3000m Steeplechase
India's Avinash Sable was the only positive for India in athletics on Friday after he registered an impressive timing of 8:18.12 to finish 7th (out of 15) in Round 1 of men's 3000m steeplechase. Unfortunately, he was slightly unlucky as he was one of the fastest finishers to not qualify for the finals.
Badminton - Women's Singles Quarter-finals
India's PV Sindhu produced a scintillating performance to defeat Japan's Akane Yamaguchi 21-13, 22-20 in the quarter-finals. She will now face Chinese Taipei's Tai Tzu-ying on July 31, Saturday (IST 2:30 PM onwards).
Boxing - Women's Lightweight Round of 16
Simranjit Kaur (India) lost to Sudaporn Seesondee (Thailand) 0-5 to get eliminated from the event.
Boxing - Women's Welterweight Quarter-finals
Lovlina Borgohain (India) beat Chen Nien-chin (Chinese Taipei) 4-1 to qualify for the semi-finals. It must be noted that the participants who lose the semis are also awarded bronze medals which is why Lovlina has ensured an Olympic medal to her name with her performance on Friday.
Shooting - Women's 25m Air Pistol Qualification Rapid
The Indian shooting contingent had another disappointing outing on Friday as Manu Bhaker (582 points) and Rahi Sarnobat (573 points) finished at 15th and 32nd positions respectively in women's 25m air pistol qualification rapid and failed to reach the finals.
Hockey - Men's Pool A
India secured their third consecutive win of the tournament as they defeated Japan 5-3 in their final group game to finish second in Pool A. The goal scorers for India were: Harmanpreet (1), Gurjant (2), Shamser (1) and Nilikanta (1).
Hockey - Women's Pool A
India finally registered their first win in Tokyo as the defeated Ireland 1-0 in a thrilling game, thanks to a late goal from Navneet Kaur. With this win, the Women in Blue kept their hopes alive for going through to quarter-finals.
Equestrian - Individual Dressage Eventing
Indian Equestrian Fouaad Mirza finished 7th in the individual dressage eventing where he ended up with 28.00 penalty points. Mirza will compete in dressage session 3 on Saturday.
Golf - Men's Individual
Anirban Lahiri (-4) and Udayan Mane (+3) were at 20th and 57th positions respectively in the event before the day was suspended.
Sailing - Laser
The campaign for India's Laser Sailors – Vishnu Saravanan (standard) and Nethra Kumanan (radial) – came to an end on Friday. While Vishnu finished 20th (out of 35), Nethra ended at 35th place (out of 44).
