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Olympics 2024 Day 11 : Vinesh, Neeraj into the finals, disappointing day for Indian hockey team - Highlights
Catch live updates of Indian athletes' performance on August 6 at the Paris Olympics 2024.
Neeraj Chopra and Kishore Kumar Jena in action at the 2025 Doha Diamond League (Photo credit: PTI)
Olympic Games Paris 2024 LIVE Day 11: It is a big day for India. Reigning Olympic gold medal winning javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra, the biggest gold medal hope for India at the Paris Olympics 2024, will be in action in the qualification round along with Kishore Kumar Jena.
In hockey, the Indian men's team are on the cusp of glory as they are just a win away of reaching the final. Germany are their opponents in the semifinals.
Kiran Pahal, India's hope in women's 400m, will look to make use of her second chance at the Games when she competes in Heat 1 of repechage round.
Vinesh Phogat, the renowned Indian wrestler, will look to seal her place in the quarterfinals when she takes on Japan's Yui Susaki.
After the women's team qualified for the quarterfinals, the Indian men's TT team will have their task cut out as they have been pitted against mighty China in Round of 16 today.
As it happened:
Live Updates
- 6 Aug 2024 9:05 AM GMT
Neeraj Chopra's rivals qualify for the Finals
The Kenyan Julius Yego and Finnish Toni Keranan also qualified for the finals directly after a throw of 85.97m and 85.27.
Kishore Jena couldn't better his throw of 80.73m in the next two throws and his hopes for a final qualification seem diminishing.
- 6 Aug 2024 8:49 AM GMT
Wrestling: Vinesh Phogat to take on Japanese Yui Susaki
Vinesh will take on the reigning world champion in the round of 16s at the Champ de Mars Arena at 2:50 PM.
Catch all the live updates from Vinesh's bout here.
- 6 Aug 2024 8:03 AM GMT
Athletics: Kishore Jena in action at the qualification round
Hangzhou Asian Games silver medalist Kishore Jena will look to breach the 84m qualification mark to qualify for the Finals.
Kishore Jena's qualification round starts at 1:50 PM IST.
Neeraj Chopra is currently placed in Group B of the qualification rounds and will take the field at 3:20 PM.
Quarter-miler Kiran Pahal will race for a spot in the semi-finals at 2:50 PM.
catch all the live updates from Athletics here.
- 6 Aug 2024 7:37 AM GMT
Indian Table Tennis Men's Team in action at 1:30 PM
India will face the top-seed China in the round of 16s.
catch all the live updates from the match here.
- 6 Aug 2024 7:28 AM GMT
Summary of Day 10
Lakshya Sen lost the bronze medal match against the Malaysian Lee Zii Jia, after winning the first game by 21-13 and also losing the last two games by 16-21,11-21.
Mixed team Skeet Indian duo of Maheshwari Chauhand and Anant Jeet Singh Naruka, lost the bronze medal to the Chinese pair by a whisker.
Indian trio of Manika, Sreeja, and Archana moves into the quarter-final after beating Romania 3-2.
Avinash Sable cruised past the finish line at the State de France stadium to qualify for the 3000m steeplechase finals, Kiran Pahal finished 7th in her heats, to run in the repechage round.
Nethra Kumanan and Vishnu Saravanan are officially out of the Olympics after a 21st and 18th finish in their respective races and couldn't qualify for the medal race.
Nisha Dahiya entered the quarter-finals and was on the verge of victory when an injury forced her to bow out in front of the North Korean opponent.
- 6 Aug 2024 6:28 AM GMT
Medal Tally
India has won three medals so far:
Manu Bhaker - Bronze - Women's 10m air pistol
Manu Bhaker / Sarabjot Singh - Bronze - Air pistol mixed team
Swapnil Kusale - Bronze - Men's 50m rifle 3P
Currently, India is standing in the 60th Position, while the Americans top the table with 21 golds and a total of 79 medals after the first ten days of the Olympics.
