Double Olympic champion Michael Jung has toppled World number one Oliver Townend with an impressive 21.10 astride Chipmunk and looks in good form to make a strong case for a gold this time too.
India's Fouaad Mirza and Seigneur Medicott finish tied ninth with Sweden's Louise Remeike and Cato 60. No medal in archery for India at the Tokyo Olympics.Įquestrian eventing update: The Dressage stage finally comes to an end with some major changes to the leader board. Furukawa started with a 9 bettered with a 10 and then dropped to 8 but that enough to get him 27 points and 2 set points to pack off the Indian. In the fifth and final set, Atanu failed to fire a 10 as he shot a 9 and then dropped to 8 and then shot 9 to score 26 points. Ties at 4-4 and we are going down the wire again as both archers got a point each after finishing on 28 in the fourth set. It's 3-3 as Atanu shoots two 10s and a 8 to get 28 and 2 points while Furukawa ended on 27. Panghal wins the bout 4:1.Īrchery Update: Atanu Das crashes out of Tokyo Olympics after losing 4-6 to Japan's Furukawa TakaharuĪrchery: Atanu Das is behind on the scoreboard as he trails Furukawa 0-2.įurukawa 3-1 leads Atanu: In the second set, Atanu came up with an improved show to shoot a total of 28 as Furukawa, who shot 10 in his last shot tied at 28 as both archers took one point each. Round 1: Amit Panghal starts well as he manages to get his left hook land on Martinez and then upped his ante with a solid right hook on Martinez's face. Round 2: Martinez begins in an attacking fashion and has forced Amit into the defensive and the jabs are now flying from Martinez and Amit is feeling the heat. The bout as well as Amit Panghal's Tokyo Olympics dream is slowly slipping away. Round 3: Amit's struggle in the rung continues as Martinez is all over him and this is not looking good for the Indian.
It turned out to be the way we planned in the first round but very soon in the second round Amit couldn't keep up with his pace, got tired and it became a tough bout," said High performance boxing coach Santiago Nieva after the bout.Īmit Panghal knocked out of the Tokyo Olympics as he loses 1-4 to Colombia's Yuberjen Herny Martinez We have had several sparring sessions with him in Italy. "We had sparred with him, we had seen him so many times. The third round saw the Colombian pocket 10 points each from all five judges awarding him 10 points each. The second round went Martinez's way, with four of the five judges giving him the upper hand. Panghal looked visibly tired in the next two rounds. Martinez, on the other hand, landed his punches perfectly. 1 seed in flyweight category, won the first round but was on the defensive for the large part of the bout thereafter. Tokyo Olympics 2020 Shooting LIVE: Anjum Moudgil, Tejaswini Sawant in action in 50m rifle 3 positionsĪmit Panghal knocked out in boxing pre-quarterfinals in TokyoĪmit Panghal lost to Yuberjen Martinez (Colombia) 4-1 in the Men's flyweight round-of-16. Kaur broke the national record twice, first in the Federation Cup in March when she became the first Indian woman to go over 65m and later in the Indian Grand Prix-4 where she bettered it to 66.59m, which carried her to the sixth spot in the World list this year.Īthletics Update: Kamalpreet Kaur qualifies for the women's discus throw final with a distance of 64! Valarie Allman (66.42), Kamalpreet (64) and Daisy Osakue (63.66) are the top three.Īthletics Update: Kamalpreet Kaur throws a fantastic distance of 63.97 in the Women's Discus Throw Qualification Group B and she moves to the second spot.
Kaur and Valarie Allman (66.42) of the United States were the only two throwers to automatically qualify for the medal event.Īll you need to know about Kamalpreet Kaur India's Kamalpreet Kaur qualified for the women's discus throw final on August 2 with a best of 64m on Saturday.
Vandana Katariya hat-trick against South Africa takes India to the quarterfinal Kaur qualifies for women's discus throw final at Tokyo Olympics Tokyo Olympics 2020: Moudgil, Sawant fail to qualify for 50m rifle 3 positions final