Till day 4 of the Tokyo Olympics, India has managed to bag a silver medal in weightlifting. After an uneventful day, more medals by the Indian athletes can be hoped for on Day 5 of the Summer Games. Here is a look at the Indians who are in the fray on Day 5 of the Olympics.
Shooting
Mixed 10M Air Rifle Team
Divyansh Singh Panwar
Elavenil Vlarivan
Anjum Moudgil
Deepak Kumar
Mixed 10M Air Pistol Team
Manu Bhaker
Saurabh Chaudhary
Abhishek Verma
Yashaswini Singh Deswal
Hockey
Men’s Team
Sailing
Laser Radial Opening Series – Nethra Kumanan
Laser Opening Series – Vishnu Saravanan
Boxing Women’s Welterweight
Lovlina Borgohain
Badminton
Men’s Doubles- Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty
Day 4 saw table tennis player Manika Batra getting knocked out of women’s singles Round 3 by 0-4 against Sofia Polcanova of Austria. It ended with another disappointment when India’s first-ever fencer in Olympics Bhavani Devi lost within two rounds to world number three Manon Brunet. In between these two major disappointments, men’s doubles pair Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty were toyed by World No. 1 Indonesians in Badminton. Sumit Nagal was thrashed in straight sets by World No. 2 Daniil Medvedev. Ashish Kumar was also beaten by Chinese Erbieke Tuoheta in Round of 32. Boxer Ashish Kumar crashed out middleweight round of 32. Lastly, adding to the losses, the Indian women’s hockey team went down 0-2 to Germany, marking their second consecutive defeat in Pool A.