Beijing Olympics 2008
Day 7 (15th August 2008)

Boxing -
Men's Bantam (54kg) Round of 16

Akhil Kumar (IND) bt Sergey Vodopyanov (RUS) 9-9 (Judges decided winner on who hit more body punches and Akhil declared winner.)

Quarter-Final -
Akhil Kumar (IND) vs Veaceslav Gojan (Maldova)

Russian leading 2-1 after First round.
Russian leading 6-4 after Second round.
Russian leading 8-7 after Third round. (Akhil reduced lead to 1 pt)
And 9-9 after Four rounds. (Judges declared winner on body count.)

Huge upset victory by Akhil over World Champion Russian Sergey Vodopyanov ... This truly shows Akhil's steely nerves and character ... After 2 rounds he was down by 2 points but still he didn't lose hope and kept playing with his unorthodox style to level points score after 4 rounds ... And then Judges rightly gave their decision to declared Akhil as a winner ... So with this win Akhil is in quarter-final and giving us big hope of another medal.
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Athletics

Women's 10,000m Final

25 PREEJA Sreedharan 32:34.64

Somewhat disappointing performnace by Preeja ... Who finished 25th in 32 runners and finished 6th in Asians.

Women's Discus Throw Qual. Rnd - Group A

17 Harwant KAUR 56.42 mtrs

So with this poor throw Harmeet failed to qualify for the final, her throw was well below of her personal best 63.05 mtrs or this year's best 61.09 mtrs.

Women's Discus Throw Qual. Rnd - Group B

Krishna POONIA 58.23 mtrs

Krishna also couldn't find her 60+ mtrs performance and out in qualifying ... She was also well below of her personal best 63.41 mtrs.

Women's Heptathlon
100m Hurdles - Heat 1

4 Shobha Jagadeeshppa JAVUR 13.62sec 1033 pts
8 Pramila Ganapathy GUDANDA 13.97sec 983 pts
9 Susmita ROY SINGHA 14.11sec 963 pts

High Jump - Group A

Pramila Ganapathy GUDANDA 1.74mtrs 903 pts (1886)
Shobha Jagadeeshppa JAVUR 1.65mtrs 795 pts (1828)

High Jump - Group B

Susmita ROY SINGHA 1.71mtrs 867pts (1830)

Shot Put - Group B

Shobha Jagadeeshppa JAVUR 13.07 732 pts (2560)
Pramila Ganapathy GUDANDA 11.66 639 pts (2525)
Susmita ROY SINGHA 11.27 613 pts (2443)

200m - Heat 2

7 Pramila Ganapathy GUDANDA 24.34sec 948 pts (3391)
8 Susmita ROY SINGHA 24.92sec 894 pts (3419)

200m - Heat 5

4 Shobha Jagadeeshppa JAVUR 24.62secs 922 pts (3482)

After 4 events, JJ Shobha is on 29th with 3482 pts, Pramila Ganapathy is on 32nd position with 3419 pts and Susmita Singha Roy is on 34th position with 3391 pts.
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Shooting -
Men's 50m Rifle Prone Qualification

26 Sanjeev RAJPUT 591 pts
35 Gagan NARANG 589 pts

Disappointing performance by Gagan, expected lot better performance from him.
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Rowing -
Men's Single Sculls Final D (2000m)

3 Bajranglal TAKHAR (IND) 7:09.73

So with this Bajranglal finished on 21st postion in overall ranking.

LWT Men's Double Sculls Semifinal C/D 2

3 Devender Kumar KHANDWAL (IND)/ Manjeet SINGH (IND) 6:40.34

Indian pair is qualify for Final C.
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Tennis -
Men's Doubles Quarter-final

(7) Leander Paes (IND)/ Mahesh Bhupathi (IND) l (4) Roger Federer (SUI)/ Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI) 26 46

Mahesh and Lee both played very tentative tennis ... Both weren't looking sure about their shot-making, ie Lee's volleys and Hesh's backhands ... This loss was due to less practice matches against top-noth pairs ... Their decision of playing less matches backfired on them ... Today Swiss pair played like they wanted to win medal and that fire was missing from our pair.
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Sailing -
Finn - Race 08

24 Nachhatar Singh JOHAL (IND) 24 pts

Nachhatar Singh Johal wasn't in to contention of top 10 finish from first day, so as expectedly he missed top 10 finish and final in Finn.