Day 6 of the Tokyo Olympics saw shuttler PV Sindhu, boxer Pooja Rani and archer Deepika Kumari advance to the next stage in their respective events. Badminton World No 15 B Sai Praneeth, Three-time Olympian Tarundeep Rai and Pravin Jadhav crashed out of the tournaments. The Indian women’s hockey team lost 1-4 to reigning Olympic champion Great Britain in their Pool A match. More or less, the results on Wednesday went as per expectations. 

On Thursday, Day 7, a resurgent Indian men’s hockey team would look to seal a quarterfinal berth when it takes on defending champions Argentina in its penultimate pool match. With two wins out of three games, World No.4 India are at the second spot in Pool A.

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Also, six-time world champion M C Mary Kom (51kg) will fight her pre-quarterfinal bout against Colombia’s Ingrit Valencia, a boxer she has defeated both times the two have faced off.

Mary Kom is chasing her second Olympic medal, having won a bronze in the 2012 London edition.

In men’s boxing, debutant Satish Kumar, the first super heavyweight (+91kg) to make the Olympic cut from India, will open his campaign in the pre-quarterfinal stage against Jamaica’s Ricardo Brown.

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At the Asaka shooting range, the in-form Rahi Sarnobat would try to reboot India’s disastrous shooting campaign in the 25m women’s air pistol event where the immensely talented but out-of-sorts Manu Bhaker would also hope to find form.

Here are the Indians in the fray on Day 7 (all timings in IST):

Rowing:

05:20 AM: Men’s Double Sculls Final B — Arvind Singh and Arun Lal Jat

Golf:

5.22 AM: Men’s Round 1 — Anirban Lahiri

7.39 AM: Men’s Round 1 — Udayan Mane

Shooting:

05:30 AM: Women’s 25m – Qualification — Rani Sarnobat and Manu Bhaker

Hockey:

06:00 AM: Men Team Pool A — India vs Argentina

Badminton:

06:15 AM: Women’s Singles Round of 16 — PV Sindhu vs Mia Blichfeldt

Archery:

07:31 AM: Men’s Individual 1/32 Eliminations — Atanu Das vs Deng Yu-Cheng

Sailing: 

08:35 AM: 49er Men’s Race 05 and 06 — KC Ganapathy and Varun Thakkar

08:35 AM: Men’s Laser Race 07 and 08 — Vishnu Saravanan

08:45 AM: Women’s Laser Radial Race 07 and 08 — Nethra Kumanan

Boxing:

8:48 AM: Men’s +91kg Round of 16 (Session 1 of Day) — Satish Kumar vs Ricardo Brown

3:36 PM: Women’s 51kg Round of 16 — Mary Kom vs Ingrit Valencia

Swimming:

04:16 PM — Men’s 100m Butterfly Heat 2 — Sajan Prakash