Saturday, August 13, 2016

Olympics News

At Rio Olympics 2016, Brazil

Golf - Men's Individual Round 3
T22 Shivsankar Prasad Chawrasia (IND) 71 71 69 -2
T57 Anirban Lahiri (IND) 74 73 75 +9

Courtesy TOI

Rowing - Men's Single Sculls Final C
1. Dattu Baban Bhokanlal (IND) 6:54.96s

Shooting - Men's Skeet Qualification - Day 2
T8 Mairaj Ahmed Khan (IND) 121 (in shoot-off eliminated first for 5th/6th place)

Shooting - 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Men’s Qualification - Day 2
7 Gurpreet Singh (IND) 581-24x (289+292)

Women's Hockey - Pool B
India l Argentina 0-5 (0-5)
Goal Scorers - Martina Cavallero (ARG) 16' PC and 29', Maria Granatto (ARG) 23', Carla Rebecchi (ARG) 26' PC, Agustina Albertarrio (ARG) 27'

Courtesy TOI

Athletics - Women’s 3000m steeplechase — Heat 2
4 Lalitha Shivaji Babar (IND) 9:19.76 (NR) (qualified for the final)

Athletics - Women’s 3000m steeplechase Heat 3
9 Sudha Singh (IND) 9:43.29s

Athletics - Women’s 400m Heat 1
6 Nirmala Sheoran (IND) 53.03s

Badminton
Women's Doubles - Group A
Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) l Sapsiree Taerattanachai (THA)/ Puttita Supajirakul (THA) 17-21, 15-21

Men's Doubles - Group D
Manu Attri (IND)/ Sumeeth Reddy B. (IND) bt Hiroyuki Endo (JPN)/ Kenichi Hayakawa (JPN) 23-21 21-11

Tennis - Mixed Doubles
[SF] (4) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) l Venus Williams (USA)/ Rajeev Ram (USA) 62 26 3-10

This days bright spot were, Lalitha Babar qualifying for the final of steeplechase event and Dattu Bhokanlal winning Single Sculls Final C event. In the golf SSP was in top-15 till 16th hole with 4 under for the day but scored back to back bogeys on 17th and 18th to finished outside top-20 ... Anirban produced worst round of three rounds to finished on T57 position.

Dattu Bhokanlal gave his best timing in his four races for winning Final C, so with that he finished on 13th place in Men's Single Sculls.

In shooting, our both players finished in top-8 but in these events only top-6 gets qualified for the final ... Gurpreet finished on 7th position with 581 points in 25m Rapid Fire Pistol, his only 90 round in 3rd series cost him dearly ... Mairaj produced 25 and 24 in last two series, he was tied for 5th place with 5 other shooters in Skeet ... In shoot-off he and French shooter eliminated first so he missed reaching the final.

Our women hockey team got outperformed by Argentine team in their one-sided win ... Argentina scored all 5 goals in second quarter and in last two quarters missed to increase winning margin ... So our team ended with four losses and one draw.

In Athletics, Lalitha Babar run a superb race and bettered national record by 7/8 seconds in 3000m Steeplechase ... And while doing that she qualified for the final with 7th best timing in all qualifier ... Sudha Singh struggled and managed time 9:40s ... In 400m Nirmala managed only 53 secs to finish her heat on 6th place.

Jwala-Ashwini failed to end their campaign on winning note and they lost their match in straight sets against Thai pair ... Other hand Manu Attri and Sumeeth scored upset win over WR#8 Japanese pair in straight game ... So with that they ended their Olympics campaign on winning note.

In the tennis Sania and Rohan missed opportunity of playing in Gold medal match as they lost against American pair Venus Williams and Rajeev Ram in match tie-break ... In the first set Indian pair broke Venus two times for winning it ... In the second American pair broke Sania twice for winning it ... In match tie-break from 1-3 American pair won 9 points in a row for this excellent win ... Moon balling backfired on Sania and our pair failed to raise their game on this crucial juncture ... In match tie-break our pair missed couple of easy volleys, missing simple smash or failing to put pressure on their opponent ... Sania-Rohan still having chance of winning medal against Czech pair for Bronze medal.

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