The occasions for Indian athletes have concluded, with the contingent wrapping up their Paris Olympics marketing campaign with 6 medals. A choice on Vinesh Phogat’s attraction remains to be pending.
Over greater than two weeks and quite a few occasions, Indian sports activities followers skilled a storm of feelings, happiness, pleasure, and sorrow. The journey started with pleasure because the nation celebrated a bronze in capturing, and topped with combined feelings after the javelin throw last, the place Neeraj Chopra gained a silver. Each Indian was left with a mixture of pleasure and hope.
With Reetika Hooda falling wanting a medal, failing to enter the repechage spherical of Saturday, the Indian contingent lastly packs their luggage and bids adieu to the Paris Olympics with 6* medals. This isn’t higher than the Tokyo Olympics, the place we gained 7 medals together with 1 gold, 2 silver and 4 bronze medals.
The seventh medal for India relies on vinesh Phogat’s verdict. Vinesh nonetheless has an opportunity to safe a silver medal in wrestling and make it 7. The Court docket of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has postponed its choice on Vinesh Phogat’s attraction in opposition to her disqualification from the Olympic finals till thirteenth August.
To this point, India has completed its Paris Olympic marketing campaign with six medals, together with 5 bronze and one silver.
Manu Bhaker began the rally
India’s shooter Manu Bhaker was the primary athlete to win a medal for India on the Paris Olympics. She gained bronze within the ladies’s 10m air pistol capturing occasion, changing into the primary feminine athlete to win a capturing medal for India.
Manu Bhaker and Sarabjot Singh safe second medal
Manu Bhaker, alongside Sarabjot Singh, secured India’s second medal on the Paris Olympics by profitable bronze within the 10m air pistol combined workforce occasion. This marked the primary time {that a} workforce occasion in capturing introduced dwelling a medal for India on the Olympics.
Swapnil Kusale brings dwelling one other bronze
Swapnil Kusale clinched India’s third bronze medal on the Paris Olympics 2024, securing third place within the males’s 50m rifle 3 positions occasion. This accomplished a hat-trick of capturing medals for India, a primary in Olympic historical past.
Hockey Workforce didn’t disappoint
After Swapnil’s bronze, a medal drought appeared imminent, with a number of shut calls, together with fourth-place finishes by the shotgun workforce, Lakshya Sen, and the archery combined workforce. The Indian hockey workforce additionally misplaced their semi-final match to Germany. Nevertheless, they bounced again to win the bronze medal match in opposition to Spain with a 2-1 victory, reigniting hopes for extra medals.
Neeraj Chopra wins Silver
India’s golden boy, Neeraj Chopra, gained the silver medal within the males’s javelin throw with a throw of 89.45m. The nation had combined emotions—pleasure for the silver, however a tinge of unhappiness as Neeraj couldn’t defend his Olympic gold.
Aman Sehrawat wins bronze
The story ended with a bronze from Aman Sehrawat, the youngest Indian to win a person medal on the Olympics. Aman clinched the bronze within the males’s 57kg freestyle wrestling after defeating Darian Cruz of Puerto Rico with a rating of 13-5.
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