Monday, August 15, 2016

Olympics News

At Rio Olympics 2016, Brazil

Badminton
[R16] Srikanth Kidambi (IND,11) bt Jan O Jorgensen (DEN,5) 21-19 21-19
[R16] P. V. Sindhu (IND,10) bt Tzu Ying Tai (TPE,8) 21-13 21-15

[QF] Srikanth Kidambi (IND,11) vs Dan Lin (CHN,3)
[QF] P. V. Sindhu (IND,10) vs Yihan Wang (CHN,2)

Athletics - Men’s Triple Jump - Group B
15. Ranjith Maheshwary (IND) 16.13m

Athletics - Women’s 200m Heat 5
6. Srabani Nanda (IND) 23.58s

Athletics - Women’s Discus Throw - Group B
9. Seema Punia Antil (IND) 57.58m

Athletics - Women’s 3000m Steeplechase Final
10. Lalitha Babar (IND) 9:22.74s

Wrestling - Men’s Greco-Roman 85kg Qualification
[R16] Ravinder Khatri (IND) l Viktor Lorincz (HUN) 9-0 (first period)

Boxing - Men's Middleweight (75kg)
[QF] Vikas Krishan Yadav (IND) l Bektemir Melikuziev (UZB) 0-3 (27-30, 27-30, 27-30)

Srikanth scored superb upset win over WR #5 Danish player Jan O Jorgensen in 42 minutes ... Srikanth played very attacking game in this match and kept his cool on important points as both players were neck to neck in both games ... In the quarters he is facing his old foe Dan Lin.

Sindhu also joined Srikanth in quarters with impressive dominating win over Tzu Ying Tai in 40 mins ... In both games Sindhu took control and didn't gave any chance to Tai but Sindhu is also facing big Chinese challenge in next match ... She is facing Chinese top player former WR #1 and current WR #2 Yihan Wang.

In steeplechase final Lalitha failed to better her national record but gave decent time to finish on respectable 10th position ... Our other athletes kept getting out in qualification and first round ... In triple jump Ranjith manged only one jump over 16 mtrs which was only 16.13 mtrs ... In 200m heat Srabani Nanda managed only 23.58s timing to finished 6th in her heat ... Disappointing throw from Seema Punia, who failed to cross 58 mtrs mark in qualifying.

In wrestling bad start as in Greco-Roman, Ravinder Khatri lost bout in the first period as his Hungarian opponent took 9 pts lead.

Uzbek boxer proved too strong for Vikas in quarter final ... Uzbek boxer was former World champion silver medalist and he plaed perfect bout without taking much risk.

No comments:

Table Tennis News

At $70K ITTF Challenge Plus Oman Open 2020 , Muscat, Oman [R32] Harmeet Desai (IND,87) bt Jeremy Hazin (CAN,164) 4-0 (12-10, 11-8, 11-4,...