Saturday highlights
Badminton: Reigning world champion P V Sindhu slumped to a 18-21, 12-21 defeat against world number one Tai Tzu Ying of Chinese Taipei in the women’s singles semifinals. She will now fight for Bronze on Sunday against China’s He Bing Jiao.
Hockey: Striker Vandana Katariya scored a historic hat-trick to help Indian women’s hockey beat South Africa 4-3. In other result, Great Britain beat Ireland 2-0 to clear India’s passage into quarterfinals.
Athletics: Discus thrower Kamalpreet Kaur produced one of the best performances by an Indian in the Olympics with a throw of 64m to be one of the only two automatic qualifiers for the final round.
Seema Punia made an exit after finishing sixth in qualification A and 16th overall with a below-par best throw of 60.57m.
Long jumper M Sreeshankar failed miserably as he finished 13th in qualification B and 25th overall out of 29 competitors with a below-par best effort of 7.69m.
Boxing: Amit Panghal (52kg) and Pooja Rani bowed out of the Olympics after suffering crushing defeats. Panghal lost 1-4 to Rio Games Silver-medallist Yuberjen Martinez. Pooja lost 0-5 to China’s Qian Li.
Archery: Atanu Das lost 4-6 to Japan’s in the men’s individual pre-quarterfinals to make exit from the Games. India’s challenged ended in the sport.
Shooting: Anjum Moudgil and Tejaswini Sawant could not make the finals of the women’s 50m rifle 3 positions event, settling for the 15th and 33rd position respectively.
Sailing: Sailing pair of KC Ganapathy and Varun Thakkar stayed at 17th position overall after the penultimate race in the men’s skiff 49er event.
Golf: Anirban Lahiri ended Tied-28th after the third round with a total of 6-under 207. While Udayan Mane carded a 70 for a share of 55th place on 2-over 215.
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