Paris Olympics: The day can start with a medal, eyes on Manu Bhaker-Deepika Kumari, this will be India’s schedule on the 8th day

Rahul Tiwari

khelja|03-08-2024

One week has passed since the Paris Olympics 2024. Now one more week is left for this great sporting event. After 7 days of games, India has won a total of 3 medals and all three are bronze. In fact, India has got all these medals in the sport of shooting. The country is currently at number 47 in the tally. On the 7th day, our athletes had a chance to win two medals, but they could not achieve it. Now it is the turn of the 8th day, where once again the eyes will be on Manu Bhaker for the medal. Apart from her, a medal is also expected from Deepika Kumari. Let us know which athletes from India are going to take the field on Saturday, August 3.

The day can start with a medal

India will participate in 6 sports on the 8th day of Paris Olympics. During this, a total of 11 athletes will represent the country. The day can start with a medal for India. Manu Bhaker is going to participate in the final of the women's shooting 25 meter pistol event at 1 pm. She has already won two medals in this Olympics. In such a situation, her confidence will be very high. Therefore, a third medal is also expected from her.

However, before Manu Bhaker, Shubhankar Sharma and Gaganjeet Bhullar will participate in the third round of gold. Anantjeet Singh will compete in the men's skeet event and Maheshwari Chauhan and Raiza Dhillon will compete in the women's event. All three events will be played from 12.30 pm.

Deepika Kumari-Bhajan Kaur is also in the medal race

Apart from Manu Bhaker, Indian archers Deepika Kumari and Bhajan Kaur will be in the medal race. Both the archers are going to participate in the pre-quarterfinals of the women's archery individual event. While Deepika will enter at 1.52 pm, Bhajan will join at 2.05 pm.

If both of them qualify further, then they can be seen playing the quarter finals from 4.56 pm, semi-finals from 5.35 pm, bronze medal match from 6.03 pm and gold medal from 6.16 pm. Now it depends on the performance of both of them as to how far they can reach.

Apart from this, Vishnu Saravanan and Netra Kumanan are going to put their claim in rowing. Lastly, boxer Nishant Dev will be seen trying his luck, who will play the quarter final match of men's boxing from 12.18 pm.

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