Day 5 Summary (India’s performance) and Day 6 schedule of Indian Athletes in Action

Day 5 was quite a mixed bag with several disappointments and few good victories to cheer. But when we deeply look into the victories they are actually much significant because all those who won yesterday can be a potential medal winner. We were in fray for 6 events yesterday out of which we won in three events and progressed further and rest all ended up in defeats. Let us review the day five events and look through the schedule for day 6.

Shooting:

Men’s 50m Pistol

Prakash Nanjappa and Jitu Rai both failed to advance to the finals of the event eventually crashing out in the qualification rounds. Prakash Scores 547 points with rank of 25 and Jitu Rai scored 554 Points with the rank of 12 which was not enough to progress to Finals of the event.

Jitu Rai had spoken to media post hi defeat,” I let my country down and I have excuse to make”.

Well Jitu you made us proud my reaching the Olympics and you will do better in the Asian Games, Commonwealth Games, Shooting Championship and appear back for medal in 2020 Olympics. We have faith in you.

Field Hockey Women’s

India vs Australia match ended with Australia winning 6-1. Australians were ruthless in their attack and only thing Indian team could do was to get one goal back. Till the half time the score line was 2-0 but second half proved fatal to India. With this loss India is in the brink of elimination and in order to try to reach the knockout stages India has to win rest of the two matches. All the best Ladies!

Boxing:

Men’s Light Welterweight (64Kg)

Manoj Kumar faced Evaldas Petrauskas (Lithuania) in the round of 32 and he won the round 2-1. Manoj went through his instincts with Defense against a very tough and hard hitting boxer in his first bout through which he won the First round. He continued the same which eventually bought him the victory. Just to remind you all Evaldas Petrauskas was Bronze medalist in the same category in the London Olympics. Now Manoj will meet Fazliddin Gaibnazarov of Uzbekistan who is also a tough opponent in the Round of 16.

Weightlifting:

Men’s 77Kg

Sathish Sivalingam was seeded in the group b of the event in which he lifted 329Kg which was his career best to finish 4^th hence he was unable to qualify for the Finals.

Judo:

Men’s Individual

In this rare event, Indian Avatar Singh met Pople Misenga (Refugee) who is from Congo in the round of 32 in which, Avatar lost 0-1 eventually to be eliminated. Well tried Lad, we are proud of you.

Archery:

Women’s Individual

Bombayla Devi met Laurence Baldauff (Austria) in the Round of 64 in which Veteran Bombayla devi won 6-2. In the First set Austrian won it 27-24 but Bombayla rallied back winning three back to back sets to win the contest (28-23; 27-23; 25-24). In the Round of 32 Bombayla met Tougher opponent Lin of Taiwan and Of course Bombayla took to honours to win 6-2 (27-24; 27-24; 26-27; 28-26). With the win Bombayla qualifies for pre quarters and she will meet Valencia of Mexico.

Deepika Kumari met Kristine Esebua (Gerogia) in the Round of 64 in which Deepika won 6-4 (27-26; 29-29; 30-27; 27-29; 29-29). Of course it was a hard fought win for deepika who kept her cool to complete the bidding. Then Deepika went on to meet Sartori of Italy which again she won 6-2 (24-27; 29-26; 28-26; 28-27) to reach the round of 16. In the Pre quarters Deepika will meet Tan ya Ting of Taiwan who was ranked 4 in the Qualification. Let us hope deepika wins and reaches quarter finals.

Schedule for Day 6 - UPDATED

Golf:

Men’s Individual: Round 1

Anirban Lahiri and SSP Chawrasia

Currently SSP Chawrasia is tied 22 and Anirban Lahiri is Tied 53. Competition still On going.

Badminton:

Women’s Doubles: India vs Japan
Jwala Gutta/ Ashwini Ponnapa lost to Matsutomo / Takahashi (JPN) by 15-21 and 10-21

Men’s Doubles: India vs Indonesia

Manu Attri / B. Sumeeth Reddy lost to Ahsan / Setiawan (INA) by 18-21 and 13-21

Women’s Singles:
PV Sindhu won against Laura Sarosi (Hungary) by 21-8 and 21-9.

Women’s Singles:
Saina won against Lohanny Vicente (Brazil) by 21-17, 21-17.

Men’s Singles: Srikanth vs Lino (Mexico) 5:35 AM

Hockey:

Men’s Group: India vs Netherlands

India Lost the match 1-2. Add to the result India played one of the best games in recent times.

Women’s Group: India vs USA 4 AM

Boxing:

Men’s 56Kg, Round of 32: Shiv Thapa vs Robeisy (Cuba)

Shiv Thapa lost to the cuban Robeisy 0-3 to be eliminated.

Archery:

Women’s pre quarters: Bombayala devi vs Valencia (Mexico)

Bombayla Devi lost to Valencia 2-6 (26-28; 26-23; 26-23; 27-28; 23-25) and gets eliminated.

Women’s pre quarters: Deepika vs Tanya (Taiwan)

Deepika lost to Tanya 0-6 (27-28; 26-29; 27-30) and gets eliminated.

All the Best India!
#KheloIndia #JeetoRio

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Venkat

Twitter: @vnktabi