Tokyo Olympics 2021: Mirabai Chanu won India's first medal at the Tokyo Olympics after she won silver in the women's weightlifting category. The Archery Mixed Team pair of Jadhav and Deepika Kumari fell in the quarter-finals to South Korea. India's Sai Praneeth lost in the Men's Badminton Singles, but the doubles pair of Rankireddy and Shetty won their opening fixture. The Mixed Doubles pair of Batra and Achanta bowed out in Table Tennis after losing to Chinese Taipei. India Judoka Sushila lost in the Round of 16.
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: Men's Judo (60KG)
Naohisa Takato won Japan's first Gold in Tokyo, beating Yang Yun-wei of Chinese Taipei in Men's Judo (60KG). Yeldos Smetov of Kazakhstan beat Tornike Tsjakadoea of Netherlands in the first Bronze medal match and Luka Mkheidze of France beat Kim Won Jin of South Korea in the second Bronze medal match. This was Japan's second medal at Tokyo.
: Manika Batra won her opening fixture in the Women's Singles event in Table Tennis. She beat Great Britain's Tin-Tin Ho in straight sets 11-7, 11-6, 12-10, 11-9.
: India are currently third in the medal tally. China lead the pack with two golds and one bronze. Iran are second with a solitary gold and India in third position with one silver. The medal tally is after the conclusion of weightlifting and shooting events.
:Mirabai Chanu ended India's 21-year wait for a weightlifting medal at the Olympics by clinching a silver medal in the 49kg category to open the country's account here on Saturday. The 26-year-old lifted a total of 202kg (87kg+115kg) to better Karnam Malleswari's bronze in the 2000 Sydney Olympics. With this, she exorcised the ghosts of the 2016 Games where she had failed to log a single legitimate lift.
The gold went to China's Hou Zhihui with an effort of 210kg (94kg+116kg) , while Aisah Windy Cantika of Indonesia took home the bronze with an effort of 194kg (84kg+110kg). Considered her weakness in the run up to the marquee event, Chanu attempted 84kg in her first snatch attempt. The Manipuri took her time and cleanly heaved the barbell. She lifted 87kg in her next attempt and raised the weight to 89kg, which was one 1kg more than her personal best of 88kg that she had lifted at the national championship last year. However, she was unable to better her personal best and settled for 87kg in the snatch event only behind leader Zhihui, who created a new Olympic record with an effort of 94kg.
The Chinese lifter also holds the world mark (96kg) in the category. In the clean jerk, Chanu, the world record holder in the section, lifted 110kg and 115kg in the first two attempts. However, she was unable to raise 117kg in her final attempt, but it was enough to fetch her a medal and open India's account. The diminutive Manipuri broke down after realising that she has secured a medal and hugged her coach in jubilation. She later broke into a dance too to celebrate the historic podium finish.
: India's shooting medal hope Saurabh Chaudhary finished 7th in the Men's 10m Air Pistol event. After a good start in the qualification round, Saurabh lost his momentum in the final showdown as he finished with a total of 137.4 points.
: India's Men's doubles pair of Chirag Shetty and Rankireddy won their opening fixture against Chinese Taipei's Y. Lee and C.L. Wang 21-16, 16-21, 27-25 in a three-set thriller. After leveling the match with one game apiece, the match went into atight third set which saw both teams exchanging deuces. The Indian duo saw two of their match points saved, but converted the third time of asking.
: India's Mirabai Chanu won India's first medal at the Tokyo Olympics after she won silver in weightlifting in the Women's 49Kg category. China's Z.H. Hou won Gold and also set an Olympic Record with a total lift of 210KG. Mirabai's total lift was 202 KG.
: Indian pair of Pravin Jadhav and Deepika Kumari bowed out of the Mixed Team event at the Olympics after lowing in the quarter-finals. They lost to the South Korean pair of An San and Kim Je Deok. The South Korean pair won 35-32, 38-37, 35-37, 36-33, 6-2.
: India's Sai Praneeth had his Olympic debut get off to a shaky start after an early loss to Israel's Misha Zilberman. Zilberman won in straight sets 21-17, 21-15. Praneeth started the game stronger, but after the mid-game interval in the first set, lost his momentum and Zilberman quickly capitalised.
: After taking a solitary point lead in the mid-game interval, India's Sai Praneeeth went on to lose the first set to Israel's Zilberman. Meanwhile, India's Mixed Doubles pair of Rankireddy and Shetty are up against Chinese Taipei in their opening fixture.
: In Men's Badminton Singles, India's Sai Praneeth leads 11-10 at the mid-game interval against Israel's Zilberman.
:Indian judoka Sushila Devi's challenge in the Tokyo Olympics came to an early end as she lost her contest to Hungarian Eva Csernoviczki, who qualified for a round of 16 clash against Japan's Funa Tonaki. Csernoviczki, a 2012 London edition bronze medallist, pinned Sushila for a full 20 seconds to claim the Ippon and win the round of 32 match. Sushila fought hard for a major part of the bout until she committed a small error, which proved to be disastrous for the Indian and cost her the match. Sushila was the only Indian Judo athlete at this year's Olympic Games.
: India's Harmanpreet Singh celebrates after scoring against New Zealand. India beat New Zealand 3-2 in their Pool A match. They will next face Australia tomorrow.
