Beijing Olympics 2008
Day 2

Swimming -
Men's 100m Breaststroke - Heat 3

2 SEJWAL Sandeep 1:02.19 mins

Sandeep broke his own National record of 1:03:58 mins, but failed to qualify for next stage ... In final standing he finished on 28 position but overall very creditable performnace in his first Olympics.
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Boxing -
Men's Middle (75kg) Round of 32

[R32] Vijender KUMAR (IND) bt JACK Badou G J (GAM) 13-2 pts
[R16] Vijender KUMAR (IND) vs Angkhan CHOMPHUPHUANG (THA)

Vijender scored victory but little unconvincing ... Now he will meet Thai Angkhan Chomphuphuang, with whom Vijender lost at 1st AIBA President Cup International Tournament in Taipei 10-15 ... So this is great opportunity to take revenge on biggest stage.

Men's Light Heavy (81kg) Round of 32

[R32] KUMAR Dinesh (IND) l BENCHABLA Abdelhafid (ALG) 3-23 RSCOS Round 3 1:42 mins

Algerian boxer outperformed Dinesh Kumar to scored one-sided victory.
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Badminton -

[R64] Saina Nehwal (IND,15) bt Ella Karachkova (RUS,30) 21-9 21-8 (24m)
[R32] Saina Nehwal (IND,15) vs Larysa Gryga (UKR,27)

Very dominating performance by Saina, who played all court game to register easy victory.
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Rowing -
Men's Single Sculls Heat 4

3 Bajranglal TAKHAR 7:39.91 (Q)

With finishing 3rd in his heat Bajranglal Takhar qualified for next round ... Congrats to Bajranglal.
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Archery -
Men's Individual Ranking Round

2 Mangal Singh CHAMPIA 678 pts

Excellent archery round by Champia to finished 2nd ... With this performance he is created big opportunity for himself to be in medal contention.

Women's Individual Ranking Round

22 Laishram Bombayla DEVI 637 pts
31 Dola BANERJEE 633 pts
37 Pranitha VARDHINENI 627 pts

In womens qualifying event our not a single archer finished inside top 20 ... That means they will having tough opponents in Individuals event, like Dola will faced Korean in second round if she wins her first round match ... But they finished on 6th position in team ranking and recieve first round bye in team event.
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Sailing -

Finn - Race 01
4 Nachhatar Singh JOHAL 4 pts

Finn - Race 02
24 Nachhatar Singh JOHAL 24 pts

After excellent first race very poor 2nd race for Nachhatar Singh Johal.
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Shooting -
Men's Trap Qualification - Day 1

12 Manavjit Singh SANDHU 70 pts
21 Mansher SINGH 69 pts

Mansher Singh was 2nd after 2nd round of trap shooting, but had poor 20 in 3rd round which put him outside top-20 ... Both shooters having tough job to qualify for final (top 6 finish).

Men's 10m Air Pistol Qualification

42 Samresh JUNG 570 pts

Another disappointing performance by shooter, this time by Samresh.

Women's 10m Air Rifle Qualification

29 Anjali BHAGWAT 593 pts
39 Avneet Kaur SIDHU 589 pts

Disappointing performance by Anjali and Avneet ... This was Anjali's 3rd Olympics so was expecting better perforance from her.
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Judo -
Women - 48 kg Preliminary

Tombi Khumujam Devi (IND) l Ana Hormigo (POR) in 2:30 mins

Our judoka Tombi Khumujam Devi's participation in Beijing Olympics lasted only for 2 and 1/2 mins.