Badminton star PV Sindhu ended her second Olympic campaign with another medal, while Manpreet Singh’s team ended the country’s long wait for a men’s hockey semi-final spot to illuminate India’s day 9 campaign.
PV Sindhu finished the Tokyo Olympics with a bronze medal
The reigning world champion Sindhu became only the second Indian and the first woman in the country to win two Olympic medals on Sunday and secured bronze after beating number 9 in the world rankings He Bing Jiao from China in a straight game.
Sindhu, who has returned with medals from each of the major events such as the Commonwealth and Asian Games and the BWF World Tour Finals for the past five years, outwitted the eight seeded Bing Jiao 21-13 21-15 and added bronze the silver, that she had secured at the 2016 Games in Rio.
India’s men win an ice hockey medal victory at the Tokyo Olympics
The Indian men’s hockey team secured a 3-1 win over Great Britain in the quarter-finals of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics on Sunday to get closer to a medal.
With the victory in the Oi-Hockey-Stadion Manpreet Singh and Co. put an end to the 40-year waiting of Indian ice hockey for a semi-final at the Olympic Games. India last made it to the bottom four in Moscow in 1980, where they won gold. It was also India’s last ice hockey medal at the summer games.
Injured Satish Kumar becomes world champion
Satish Kumar struggled despite the stitches on his forehead and chin, an injury he sustained in the previous game. All five Indian male boxers left Tokyo in 2020.
Satish Kumar became the second Indian boxer at the Tokyo Olympics to take the ring with an injury. Previously, welterweight boxer Vikas Krishan had a shoulder injury in his opening match and was defeated 5-0 to Quincy Okazawa.
Rider Fouaad Mirza falls after the cross-country lap
The Indian Fouaad Mirza and his horse Seigneur Medicott are 22nd overall after the cross-country run. Only the top 25 make it to the final. Next up is the jumping round. Fouaad Mirza can now be seen in action at the last event in jumping competition, which is scheduled for Monday. The 25 best combinations after the last round reach the final.
Anirban Lahiri and Udayan Mane finish the Tokyo Olympics golf game on a low
Indian golfers Anirban Lahiri and Udayan Mane ended their Olympic campaign in Tokyo on Sunday at Kasumigaseki Country Club with a sad letter.
Anirban Lahiri went into the last round with a 28th place tie, carded one over 72 in the fourth and final round and slipped to 42, 72 with a total of five points under 279 (67, 72, 68th).
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