Olympics 2024 India schedule Day 6: Nikhat Zareen in spotlight, IND eye third medal in shooting

Paris Olympics 2024, India's schedule on Day 6: Nikhat Zareen in spotlight

Paris Olympics 2024, India's schedule on Day 6: India's outing on Day 5 of the Paris Olympics was quite a remarkable one, starting with badminton. PV Sindhu crushed her opponent from Estonia, but it Lakshya Sen, who grabbed most spotlight in badminton. The 22-year-old shuttler came over a big hurdle in Jonatan Christie, defeating him in straight games and advancing to the round-of-16. Apart from him, one of India's most reputed archer Deepika Kumari also had a good outing, winning both her elimination matches. Swapnil Kusale too scripted history by become the first Indian shooter to qualify for the men's 50m rifle 3 positions final. (Follow | India at Olympics 2024 Day 6 Live Updates)

On Day 6, Kusale will once again lead the headlines as he will look to increase India's medal tally. He takes part in the men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions final, which is scheduled to begin at 1:00 pm IST. Meanwhile, Sift Kaur Samra and Anjum Moudgil will also be in action in the women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions qualification.

The Indian hockey team will look to continue the winning momentum against a tough Belgian side in a Pool B encounter. However, it can be deemed as a dead rubber as India have already qualified for the quarterfinals. India started their campaign with a 3-2 win against New Zealand but were held 1-1 by Argentina in their next encounter. India, however, returned to winning ways and defeated Ireland 2-0, displaying more intensity throughout the 60 minutes.

One of India's top medal contender Nikhat Zareen will be in action in the women's 50kg round of 16 bout against China's Yu Wu, which is scheduled for 2:30 pm.

Paris Olympics: India's schedule on Day 6

Golf

Men's Individual Finals: Gaganjeet Bhullar and Shubhankar Sharma -- 12.30 pm

Shooting

Men's 50m Rifle Three Positions (Medal round): Swapnil Kusale -- 1.00 pm

Women's 50m Rifle Three Positions (Qualification): Sift Kaur Samra and Anjum Moudgil -- 3.30 pm

Hockey

India vs Belgium (Group stage): 1.30 pm

Boxing

Women's Flyweight (Pre-quarterfinal): Nikhat Zareen vs Yu Wu (China) -- 2.30 pm

Archery

Men's Individual (1/32 eliminations): Pravin Jadhav vs Kao Wenchao (China) -- 2.31 pm + Men's Individual (1/16 Eliminations): 3.10 pm onwards

Sailing

Men's Dinghy Race 1: Vishnu Saravanan -- 3.45 pm + Men's Dinghy Race 2 : Vishnu Saravanan -- After Race 1

Women's Dinghy Race 1: Nethra Kumanan -- 7.05pm + Women's Dinghy Race 2: Nethra Kumanan -- After Race 1

Athletics: 

Men's 20m Race Walk: Vikash Singh, Paramjeet Singh, Akshdeep Singh - 11:30 am

Women's 20m Race Walk: Priyanka Goswami - 1:20 pm but delayed due to weather conditions

Badminton:

Men's doubles quarterfinal: Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty vs Aaron Chia and Wooi Yik Soh of Malaysia 4:30 pm

Men's singles round of 16: HS Prannoy vs Lakshya Sen 5:40 pm

Women's singles round of 16: PV Sindhu vs Bing Jiao He of China 10:00 pm