Paris Olympics Day 5 Highlights: Defeats For Manika Batra, Tarundeep Rai; Pan Zhanle Breaks WR In Swimming Men's 100m Freestyle

Welcome to our live coverage of the Paris Olympics. It is the fifth day of the Paris 2024 Olympics and just like the weather in the French capital, things are heating up in the sporting arena too

Amit Panghal, Jaismine and Preeti Pawar were all knocked out yesterday from their respective weight categories Round of 16 matches.

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18-year-old Bhajan Kaur won twice and now finds herself in the Round of 16.

Ankita Bhakat stumbled in first round and faced an exit.

In men's individual, it was an absolute heartbreak for Dhiraj Bommadevara who lost a shoot-off by the barest of margins after a splendid display.

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After Manu Bhaker's individual bronze in 10m women's pistol and her team bronze wit Sarabjot Singh in mixed team pistol event, Indian shooters will again be in action today.

Rajeshwari Kumari and Shreyasi Singh will represent India in the women's trap qualification where Day 2 takes place today. Both of them are currently out of the final qualification zone but they will try to break into the top 6 to get an entry into the medal match.

11 medal events took place on Tuesday, instead of the scheduled 12 as the men's triathlon was postponed due to river Seine's pollution level.

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The triathlon race format at the Olympics for both the women's and men's events consist of a 1500m swim, a 40km cycle and a 10km run. It is scheduled for an 11:30 IST start.

After days of delays and uncertainty over water quality in the Seine River, the women's and men's Olympic triathlon races will go forward Wednesday with a swim in the famed Paris waterway.

The decision to go ahead with the Seine swim for the triathlon competitions is a big win for the city, Olympics organizers and the athletes. Officials undertook an ambitious plan, including 1.4 billion euros ($1.5 billion) in infrastructure improvements, to clean up the long-polluted Seine and have been steadfast in their insistence that the swimming portion of the triathlon and the marathon swimming events next week could safely be held in the river. (AP)

Artistic gymnastics

(17:30) 9:00 pm IST: M individual all-around final

Canoe slalom

(17:25) 8:55 pm IST: W C-1 final

Cycling (BMX freestyle)

(13:10) 4:40 pm IST– W park final

(14:45) 6:15 pm IST: M park final

Diving

(11:00) 2:30 pm IST: W synchronised 10m platform final

Fencing

(19:30) 11:00 pm IST: M sabre team medal matches

Judo

(17:18) 8:48 pm IST: W -70kg medal contests

(17:49) 9:19 pm IST: M -90kg medal contests

Indian women shooters Shreyasi Singh (ranked 22) and Rajeshwari Kumari (ranked 21) are in action today at the Women's Trap Shooting qualification round. However, both of them are almost outside of the final qualification zone.

In the shooting trap qualification stage, there will be five rounds of 25 targets each. The top six athletes will make it to the final matches. In case scores are tied among multiple shooters, the countback rule will be applied to place the rankings.

Four Indian shooters are in action in two different events today at the Paris Olympics 2024.

50m rifle 3 Positions Men's Qualification: Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar and Swapnil Kusale

Women's Trap Qualification: Shreyasi Singh and Rajeshwari Kumari

The 50m rifle's 3 positions are fired in three body positions - Kneeling, Prone and Standing. Before the match begins a 15-minute preparation and sighting time is provided to the shooters. Within the duration of 1 hour 30 minutes, a total of 60 shots are fired. The changeover time between kneeling to prone is seven minutes. From prone to standing, the shooters will get nine minutes of changeover time.

Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar, wearing the bib number 1450, drops two in his first kneeling series. However, he soon improves by hitting seven 10s in a row to stay at 9th.

Kusale, wearing bib number 1445 kicked off rolling with seven 10s off the first eight shots and then hit two 99s to stay 6th.

After the Indians switched over to the Prone position within the allotted time of seven minutes, a 100 on 100 came from Aishwary, propelling him into sixth place. Brilliance at its peak!

Aishwary scores 199/200 in prone and drops to 7th from 3rd in the first series.

Kusale has managed to stay in the top 10, with five consecutive 10s after scoring a 98 in the first prone series.

The swimming triathlon event is now witnessing the four women contesting for the three medals.

With 2.5km left to run, the positions are as follows:

1.Switzerland: Julie Derron Leader

2.France: Cassandre Beaugrand +0s

3.France: Emma Lombardi +0s

4.Great Britain: Beth Potter +0s

Cassandre Beaugrand won the first medal on day five of the Paris Olympics. The French swimmer claims the gold in the women's triathlon. 

Podium - Cassandre Beaugrand (1st), Julie Derron (2nd), Beth Potter (3rd)

Kusale currently at 10th and Aishwary at 7th, switching to the switching to Standing series.

Six shooters are tied at 396 and four shooters are tied at 395 and another four shooters are tied at 394. Now, the cut-off score will be applied to the eighth spot for the final.

Aishwary's Setback

Not a good time for the Indian shooters. Aishwary, with 9s in his first standing series, is now languishing in the 13th spot currently with 95 points. The second-standing series would demand a strong comeback in order to book a spot in the final 8.

Aishwary Never Recovered!

Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar is now out of contention. The 50m 3 position faced a setback dropping himself on 13th and that is the point from where no improvements were made. Swapnil Kusale is currently in the 7th spot are hoping to make it to the final.

An impressive tally of 60 shots with 590 points handed Swapnil Kusale a place in the top eight shooters who are qualified for the final round. He had 38 inner 10s -- enough for a 7th-place finish.

Shreyasi Singh and Rajeshwari Kumari are not in a good position in the women's trap shooting qualification round at the Paris Olympics. Currently, they are ranked 24th (90) and 25th (90), respectively.

Lakshya Sen Vs Jonatan Christie

Sen wins the first game with a 21-19 margin, showcasing many sensational, critical moves. The Indian has surged to a three-point lead in the second game too, after being down 2-8 in the opener, there has been nothing but improvements. Lakshya is near to book a spot in the round of 32.

On the other hand, PV Sindhu earned a second straight win at the Paris Olympics advancing to the Round of 16 of the women's singles badminton event. She outshined Estonia's Kristin Kuuba in the last Group M game of both the shuttlers, winning 21-5, 21-10.

Lakshya claimed victory in the group stage match against the reigning All England and Asian champion Jonatan Christie and stormed into round of 32.

India's Sreeja Akula is up against Zeng Jian of Singapore in the Women's Singles round of 32 and she has taken a 3-1 lead in the match.

Sreeja Akula 4 - 4 Zeng Jian

The Indian paddler shows her forehand topspins and a lot more classic work from the Indian paddler to stay in the lead. However, currently, the match is tied at 4-4 draw in game 5.

Game Score - 3-1

Sreeja Akula 8-7 Zeng Jian

Now the tough moment arrives! The Indian paddler delivers a powerful shot, keeping the fifth game at an 8-7 lead against her Singaporean opponent.

Game Score - 3-2

Sreeja Akula of India advances to the Round of 16 in the women's singles table tennis at the Paris Olympics on a very special day - her birthday.

In the sixth game, the Indian maintained the lead and earned the match point, 12-10 against Zeng Jian.

Game Score: 4-2

The Women's synchronized 10 metres witnessed yet another champion from China as Quan Hongchan and Chen Yuxi flawlessly earned 359.10 points throughout their five dives to win the seventh Olympic gold medal in a row in this event for the People's Rep. of China.

From the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Jo Jin Mi and Kim Mi Rae secured their side's first medal (silver) in diving. The pair of Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix and Lois Toulson claimed bronze, the first medal in this event for Great Britain!

Chen - Quan (CHN): 359.10
Jo - Kim (PRK): 315.90
Spendolini-Sirieix - Toulson (GBR): 304.38

The Tokyo Olympics bronze medallist and reigning world champion Lovlina Borgohain has won her round of 16 bout against Norway's Sunniva Hofstad. She emerges victor by a 5-0 margin in the women's 75kg category to advance to the quarter-finals. Never really seemed in danger of losing this bout, and will now look to assure herself of a medal with a win in the last-eight stage. But it will not be easy against the Tokyo silver medallist Li Qian of China. The quarter-final is slated for August 4.

After some disappointing results in the team event and ranking round, India's veteran archer Deepika Kumari comes good in her opening match of the individual section. She fights back from an early setback and just about wins the match against Estonia's Reena Parnat by a narrow 6-5 margin. Deepika's round of 32 match will also be played in some time. Stay with us for more updates on that.

The Netherlands have clinched the Olympic gold in the men's quadruple sculls rowing event with a time of 5:42.00, successfully defending their title. Italy take silver, finishing with 5:44.40, while Poland secure bronze with a time of 5:44.59. Here’s how the podium looks:

Netherlands: 5:42.00

Italy: 5:44.40

Poland: 5:44.59

As is the nature of competitive archery, Deepika Kumari is back in minutes after her round of 64 victory for the next match. She is now facing Netherlands' Quinty Roeffen, and after winning the first set, loses the second one. The third set, though, goes the Indian's way and she now needs just one more set to clinch the tie.

The British quartet of Lauren Henry, Hannah Scott, Lola Anderson and Georgina Brayshaw claims the gold medal in the women's quad sculls event of the Paris Olympics 2024. They cross the finish line first with a time of 6:16.31, narrowly beating the Netherlands, who take silver with 6:16.46. Germany, making a late surge, claim bronze with a time of 6:19.70.

Final standings:

Great Britain: 6:16.31

Netherlands: 6:16.46

Germany: 6:19.70

Second win in less than an hour for Deepika Kumari. She closes out her match against Netherlands' Quinty Roeffen by a 6-2 margin to surge into the women's individual round of 16. The Indian veteran ends with just three 10s in her 12 arrows in that victory, so she is still not in top form. But it's a win nevertheless, and she needs two more to enter medal contention in Paris.

Alex Yee of Great Britain wins the gold in thrilling fashion in the men's triathlon, overtaking New Zealand's Hayden Wilde in the final stretch by six seconds. With this result, Yee becomes the only athlete to win both the individual and mixed relay triathlon at the Olympics.

Final standings:

Alex Yee (GBR): 1:43:33

Hayden Wilde (NZL): 1:43:39

Leo Bergere (FRA): 1:43:43

Anush Agarwalla made history, earlier today by becoming the first Indian to compete at the dressage event of the Olympic Games. But he will not progress further in the competition. The 24-year-old finished ninth in his group in the Grand Prix Individual, astride Sir Caramello Old, with a score of  66.444. Only the top two athletes from each group, plus the six athletes with the next best scores will qualify to the Individual final, and Anush will not be one of them.

Both of India's women's singles TT players at Paris 2024 - Manika Batra and Sreeja Akula - will step into the table tennis arena for their respective pre-quarter-finals. Batra will face Japan's Miu Hirano at around 8:30pm IST, while birthday girl Sreeja meets Chinese world number one Sun Yingsha at 12:30am IST (past midnight). This will be Sreeja's second match of the day, as she beat Singapore's Jian Zeng earlier in the round of 32.

China's Deng Yawen claims the women's park gold in the BMX freestyle event. She scores 92.60 to finish on top, ahead of Perris Benegas of the USA, who was fourth in Tokyo. Australia's Natalya Diehm takes the bronze. These are the first medals for China and Australia in this event.

Final Standings

Deng Yawen (CHN): 92.60

Perris Benegas (USA): 90.70

Natalya Diehm (AUS): 88.80

Jamaica's star sprinter Shericka Jackson has confirmed that she will not participate in the 100m race at Paris Olympics. Jackson, who won bronze in this event at Tokyo 2020 and silver at the 2023 world championships, will be replaced by Shashalee Forbes, who finished fourth at the Jamaican trials. Confirmation is awaited on whether Jackson will still race in the women's 200m or be a part of Jamaica's relay teams for the Games.

Novak Djokovic has won his men's singles match against Dominik Koepfer of Germany in straight sets (7-5, 6-3), as has Stefanos Tsitsipas against Argentina's Sebastian Baez (7-5, 6-1). Both men now progress to the quarter-finals, but they'll have to wait to find out their opponents as a lot more action is slated at Roland Garros today.

Argentina's Jose Torres Gil has scripted history with his gold-winning performance in the BMX freestyle men's park final. Torres Gil has won the first individual medal in cycling for his country, and also the first medal of the Paris 2024 Games for Argentina. It is also the nation's first gold in any sport since Rio 2016, and the first gold medal for an athlete representing a South American country at the Paris Summer Olympics.

World champion Kieran Reilly gets silver, and Anthony Jeanjean of hosts France takes bronze.

Final Standings:

Jose Torres Gil (ARG): 94.82

Kieran Reilly (GBR): 93.91

Anthony Jeanjean (FRA): 93.76

India's ace doubles pairing of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty will face Malaysia's Aaron Chia and Wooi Yik Soh in the quarter-finals. It is a tricky match-up, as the Malaysians had Satwik-Chirag's number for a long time before the Indians notched up some wins against them. The head-to-head record still stands at 8-3 in favour of Chia-Soh. Further, 'Sat-Chi' are in the same half as Chinese top seeds Liang Weikeng and Wang Chang, so a semi-final encounter is on the cards.

Guatemala claimed its first-ever Olympic gold medal as Adriana Ruano Oliva shattered the women's trap final with a record-breaking performance at Paris 2024. Her astonishing score of 45 will be etched in Olympic history.

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Manika Batra keeps the qualification hopes alive with 14-12 win in the third game.

Batra loses 6-11, 9-11, 14-12, 8-11, 6-11 to Miu Hirano, who came in this match as a higher-ranked opponent. With this Batra's Paris Olympic 2024 campaign comes to an end.

India's veteran archer, 40 years old age, Tarundeep Rai is competing in the men's singles event against Great Britain's Tom Hall. 

Tarundeep Rai takes third set and level at 3-3 (9, 10, 9) took him to 28, but the Brit could only manage 25 (8, 9. 8).

After getting a lead in third set, Tarundeep gets 28 with (9, 10, 9) but Hall shoots (9, 10, 10) to takes away the fourth set. 

Tarundeep Rai's journey in the men's individual archery came to an end today. In fourth set, Rai was on the brink of victory but missed out on a perfect score, allowing Hall to level the set and ultimately win the match 6-4.

1. Barbara Matic (Croatia) - GOLD

2. Miriam Butkereit (Germany) - SILVER

3. Gabriella Willems (Belgium) - BRONZE

4. Michaela Polleres (Austria) - BRONZE

1. Lasha Bekauri (2nd title) (Georgia)  - GOLD

2. Sanshiro Murao (Japan) - SILVER

3. Maxime-Gael Ngayap Hambou (France) - BRONZE

4. Theodoros Tselidis (Greece) - BRONZE

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Aquatics: Men's 200 m backstroke

Aquatics: Women's 200 m breaststroke

Aquatics: Women's 200 m butterfly

Aquatics: Women's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay

Athletics: Men's 20 km walk

Athletics: Women's 20 km walk

Canoeing: Men's K-1 (Slalom)

Fencing: Women's team foil

Gymnastics: Women's individual all-around (Artistic)

Judo: Men's 100 kg

Judo: Women's 78 kg

Rowing: Men's double sculls

Rowing: Women's double sculls

Rowing: Men's four

Rowing: Women's four

Sailing: Men's 49er

Sailing: Women's IQFoil

Shooting: Men's 50 m rifle 3 positions

1. Jessica Fox (Australia) - GOLD

2. Elena Lilik (Germany) - SILVER

3. Evy Leibfarth (United States) - BRONZE

HS Prannoy becomes the third Indian singles player to qualify for the badminton round of 16 after a 16-21, 21-11, 21-12 win over Vietnam’s Duc Phat Le at the Paris Olympics 2024 on Wednesday.

The 32-year-old HS Prannoy will face compatriot Lakshya Sen in the next round.

Indian origin player Rajeev Ram along with his partner Austin Krajicek defeat Rafael Nadal-Carlos Alcaraz by 6-2, 6-4 in Men's Doubles Quarter-Final.

1. Katie Ledecky (United States) - GOLD

2. Anastasiya Kirpichnikova (France) - SILVER

3. Isabel Gose (Germany) - BRONZE

Katie Ledecky redefined her own world record in the pool. The swimming superstar clocked 15:30.02, surpassing her previous Olympic Record.

Leon Marchand of France claimed gold with an Olympic record, edging out Kristof Milak of Hungary for silver. Ilya Kharun of Canada rounded out the podium with a bronze medal.

1. South Korea - GOLD

2. Hungary - SILVER

3. France - BRONZE

Indian table tennis player Sreeja Akula lost 0-4 to world number one Yingsha Sun of China in the pre-quarterfinals of the women's singles competition at the Paris Olympics on Wednesday. The Indian number one Sreeja went down 10-12 10-12 8-11 3-11 in 38 minutes, hours after becoming only the second Indian table tennis player to reach the round of 16 at the Olympics.

August 1, Day 6 at the Paris Olympics 2024 promises to be an action-packed affair. Get all the details right HERE.

India’s Nishant Dev entered the quarterfinals of the 71kg men’s boxing competition, defeating Jose Gabriel Rodriguez Tenorio of Ecuador at the Paris Olympics on Wednesday. Dev won the contest 3-2 via a split decision.

20-year-old newcomer Oka Shinnosuke of Japan won the gold medal with Zhang Boheng of the People's Republic of China claiming silver. 2017 world champion Xiao Ruoteng of China clinched bronze.

Leon Marchand is in action again as he participates in the Men's 200m Breaststroke Final.

Léon Marchand wins gold, in an Olympic record time of 2:05.85. Zac Stubblety-Cook wins silver, 0.94 back. Corbeau takes bronze for Netherlands in 2:07.90.

Pan Zhanle wins gold and sets a new world record time of 46.40! Australia's Kyle Chalmers takes silver whereas David Popovici takes bronze.

As per the Olympics website, the surfing action is called-off. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is end of day 5 at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Leon Marchand produced a historic display in the 200m butterfly to win gold in an Olympic record and then backed it up to complete an unprecedented double gold in a single session, producing another Olympic record in the 200m breaststroke, securing his third gold of the Games.