Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Beijing Olympics 2008
Day 11 (19th August 2008)

Athletics -
Women's Long Jump Qual. Round

Anju Bobby George (IND) Fouled out

In bizarre long jumping qualifying Anju Bobby George fouled out herself with 3 fouled jumps.
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Wrestling
Men's FR 60 kg 1/8 Final

Yogeshwar Dutt (IND) bt Baurzhan Orazgaliyev (KAZ) 8-2 (Decision by Points - the loser with technical points)

Men's FR 60 kg 1/4 Final

Yogeshwar Dutt (IND) l Kenichi Yumoto (JPN) 3-6 (Decision by Points - the loser with technical points)

Kenichi lost in semis so Yogeshwar Dutt also lost opportunity of playing for bronze medal match.
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Table Tennis -
Men's Singles Round 1 -
Achanta Sharath Kamal (IND) bt Alfredo Carneros (ESP) 6-11 12-10 11-8 9-11 11-6 11-7 (45m)

Match Report -
Achanta lost first game 6-11.
In second game Achanta was leading by 8-5 and then 10-8 but Alfredo crawled back in the game ... But Achanta won 12-10
In third game after taking lead 6-2 Achanta kept upperhand over Alfredo to win it 11-8
After losing first game Achanta making sure that he starts well ... In this fourth game also he take 4-1 lead initially but Alfredo equelled at 8-8 and then 9-9 ... Alfredo managed to win it 9-11. In fifth game Achanta raced up to 5-0 lead ... And then won it easily 11-6.
In 6th game they started neck to neck until 3-3 but then Achanta moved nose ahead 6-3 ... And then finished match on 11-7

Men's Singles Round 2
Achanta Sharath Kamal (IND) vs Weixing Chen (AUT)

So his next round opponent is #31 rank Austria's Chainese import.

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