India at Paris Olympics 2024 Day 5 Highlights: Nishant qualifies for boxing quarter-finals; Lakshya-Deepika win

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India at Paris Olympics 2024 Day 5 Live Updates: End of Day five!

And that’s that from the fifth day of the 2024 Paris Olympics. It’s heartbreak for India in table tennis with both Manika Batra and Sreeja Akula losing their respective matches. However, medal hopes are still alive with shooter Swapnil Kusale making the final of the Men’s 50m Rifle 3 Positions event and boxers Lovlina Borgohain and Nishant Dev advancing. We will be back with LIVE coverage of Day six of the Games, and we leave you with a recap of all that’s happened from India’s perspective today:

Badminton

Women’s singles group stage: PV Sindhu beats Kristin Kuuba 21-5, 21-10 to reach Round of 16

Men’s singles group stage: Lakshya Sen beats Jonatan Christie 21-18, 21-12 to reach Round of 16

Men’s singles group stage: HS Prannoy beats Duch Phat Lee 16-21, 21-11, 21-12, to face Lakshya Sen in Round of 16

Table tennis

Women’s singles round of 32: Sreeja Akula beat Jian Zeng 4-2 (9-11, 12-10, 11-4, 11-5, 10-12, 12-10) to join Manika Batra in the Round of 16.

Women’s singles round of 16: Manika Batra loses to Miu Hirano 1-4

Women’s singles round of 16: Sreeja Akula loses to Sun Yingsha of China 0-4

Shooting

Men’s 50m Rifle 3 Positions qualification: Swapnil Kusale qualifies for final by finishing 7th with a score of 590, while Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar (589) misses out after finishing 11th

Trap Women’s Qualification: Rajeshwari Kumari finishes 22nd with a score of 113, while Shreyasi Singh ends in 23rd place with a total score of 113. Only the top six proceeded to the final.

Boxing

Women’s 75 kg prelims round of 16: Lovlina Borgohain beats Sunniva Hofstad 5-0 to reach quarter-finals. She will face Li Qian of China on 4 August.

Men’s 71 kg round of 16: Nishant Dev beats Jose Gabriel Rodriguez Tenorio 3-2. Nishant will face Mexico’s Marco Verde in the quarter-finals on 4 August.

Archery

Women’s recurve individual 1/32 elimination round: Deepika Kumari beats Reena Parnat 6-5

Women’s recurve individual 1/16 elimination round: Deepika Kumari beats Quint Roeffen 6-2. Will face Michelle Kroppen of Germany in the 1/8 elimination round on 3 August.

Men’s recurve individual 1/32 elimination round: Tarundeep Rai loses to Tom Hall 4-6

Equestrian

Dressage Individual group stage: Anush Agarwalla — finishes 9th in Group E with a final score of 66.444, fails to advance.

Rowing

Men’s Singles Sculls semi-finals C/D: Balraj Panwar finishes sixth in the Men’s Singles Sculls semi-final C/D 1 and qualifies for Final D (2 August). It’s not a medal race but a classification competition.

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