India’s first medal of the Olympic 2024 has been won by Indian Women Shooter Manu Bhaker. She became First Indian Women Shooter to win a medal in Olympics. India could get a Medal in shooting after 12 Years. Manu kept her calm and composure and achieved the result. Here are results of the day two where India could manage few wins and heartbreak as well. Women Team of Archery could not advance beyond Quarterfinal and lost to Netherland. It was not day for DIpika Kumari and team. Nikhat took on Germany’s Maxi and played an excellent bout to win unanimously and face No 1 from China in next round. Other result for Indian Contingent are
| OLYMPIC MEDAL TALLY- PARIS 2024 | |||||
| Position | Country | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Japan | 04 | 02 | 01 | 07 |
| 2 | Australia | 04 | 02 | 00 | 06 |
| 3 | USA | 03 | 06 | 03 | 12 |
| 4 | France | 03 | 03 | 02 | 08 |
| 5 | Korea | 03 | 02 | 01 | 06 |
| 6 | China | 03 | 01 | 02 | 06 |
| 7 | Italy | 01 | 02 | 03 | 06 |
| 8 | Kazakistan | 01 | 00 | 02 | 03 |
| 9 | Belgium | 01 | 00 | 01 | 02 |
| 10 | Germany | 01 | 00 | 00 | 01 |
| —-22 | India | 00 | 00 | 01 | 01 |
Badminton
Women’s Singles
PV Sindhu defeated F N Abdul Razzaq (Maldiv)- 21-9,21-6
Men’s Singles- Group play
H S Prannoy defeated Fabian Roth(Germany) by 21-18, 21-12
Shooting
First Medal :
Manu Bhaker makes history by winning Bronze medal in Women’s 10m Air Pistol. She becomes India’s First women to achieve it. It also opened account for India in Paris 2024.
10m Air Rifle Women’s –
R Ramita-– 631.5 finished at 5th position to qualified for Final
E Valarivan – 630.7 finished at 10th position.
10m Air Rifle Men’s Qualification
Arjun Babuta – 630.1 points to finish at 7th position to qualified for final
Sarabjot Singh- 629-3 points to finish at 12th place.
10 m Air Pistol Women’s Final
Manu Bhaker won Bronze . India’s First Medal of this Olympic .
Gold- OH YJ -Korea
Silver- Kim Y- Korea
Bronze- M Bhaker- India
Rowing
Repechage 2- First two will qualify for quarterfinal
B Panwar qualified for Quarterfinal
Table Tennis
Women’s Single round of 64
Sreeja Akula defeated Christina Kallberg(Sweden) by (4-0) 11-4, 11-9, 11-7, 11-8 Manika Batra defeated Anna Hursey (Great Britain) by (4-1) 11-8, 12-10, 11-9, 9-11, 11-5
Men’s Single round of 64
Sharath Kamal Achantha looses to Deni Kozul (Slovakia) by (2-4) 12-10, 9-11, 6-11, 7-11, 11-8, 10-12
Harmeet Desai lost to Felix Lebrum(France) in straight games (0-4) 8-11, 8-11, 6-11 , 8-11
Swimming
Men’s 100m Backstroke heat
S Natraj in Heat 2 finished at 2nd place with timing of 55.01 . Not qualified for the next round
Women’s 200m Freestyle Heat
D Desinghu finished at the first position in Heat 1 with timing of 2:06.96- not qualified for next round .
Tennis
Men’s Single
Sumit Nagal lost C Moutet (France) by 2-6,6-2,5-7
Men’s Double
Bala Ji & R Bopanna lost to Monfils & R Vasselli (France) 5-7, 2-6
Boxing
Nikhat Zareen defeated Maxi Carina Kloetzer (Germany) with unanimous decision of 5-0. Nikhat moves to Pre quarterfinal.
Archery
Women’s team Quarterfinal against Netherland and Team again choked at the right time . India were badly beaten by score line 6-0 in favor of Netherland.
