It's the second day of the Paris Olympics 2024 and Indian athletes are pushing hard to make an impact. There was no medal on the opening day, unlike at Tokyo 2020 when Mirabai Chanu opened India's account, but Manu Bhaker
India at Paris Olympics 2024: LIVE BLOG, July 28
NOTE: The event timings are in IST chronological order so post-midnight fixtures are including in the current date.
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Here's a look at India's schedule for July 28, Sunday:
12:45 PM: Shooting - Elavenil Valarivan suffered heartbreak after being in contention throughout, only for a 9.8 in her penultimate shot to finish 10th (630.7 - 0.6 behind eighth place). Ramita Jindal finished 5th and qualified for the final, with a late surge that saw her score 105.7 in her last series (631.5 total).
Ramita Jindal stays steady to make 10m air rifle final
12:50 PM: Badminton - PV Sindhu defeated Maldives' Fathimath Nabaaha (WR 111) in women's singles group stage match by a 21-9, 21-6 scoreline.
1:06 PM: Rowing - Balraj Panwar finished second with a time of 7:12.41 in his men's singles sculls repechage race, thus progressing to the quarterfinals.
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2:15 PM: Table tennis - Sreeja Akula beat Christina Kallberg of Sweden in women's singles round-of-64.
2:45 PM: Shooting - Arjun Babuta finished seventh in 10m air rifle men's qualification, and made the final. Sandeep Singh, though, finished 12th, 0.6 outside the top 8.
3 PM: Table tennis - Sharath Kamal lost to Slovenia's Deni Kozul in men's singles round-of-64.
3:13 PM: Swimming - Srihari Nataraj finished second in his men's 100m backstroke heats.
3:30 PM: Shooting - Manu Bhaker won bronze in 10m air pistol final (medal event).
3:30 PM: Swimming - Dhinidhi Desinghu finished first in her women's 200m freestyle heats (but with much faster heats that came later, this is where her Games debut ends). Dhinidhi, at 14, is the youngest Indian athlete at Paris 2024. She qualified for the Games on the basis of the Universality Quota.
3:30 PM: Boxing - Nikhat Zareen beat Germany's Maxi Kloetzer in women's 50kg to reach the pre-quarters
3:30 PM: Tennis - Sumit Nagal lost a topsy-turve game to Corentin Moutet of France 2-6, 6-2, 5-7.
4:30 PM: Table tennis - Manika Batra beat Anna Hursey of Great Britain in women's singles round of 64 match by a 4-1 [11-8, 12-10, 11-9, 9-11, 11-5] scoreline.
5:45 PM: Archery - Ankita Bhakat, Bhajan Kaur and Deepika Kumari lost the women's team quarterfinal to Netherlands 0-6.
8 PM: Badminton - HS Prannoy beat Fabian Roth 21-18 21-12 in his first group match
11:30 PM: Table tennis: Felix Lebrun beat Harmeet Desai 4-0 in the men's singles r-0-64.
1:30 AM: Tennis - Monfils-Vasselin beat Bopanna-Balaji 7-5, 6-2
Other important medal events
12 AM: Swimming - men's 400m individual medley final.
Local favourite Leon Marchand will be in action. He's holds the world record in this event with a timing of 04:02.50 and he will hope to break the legendary Michael Phelps' Olympic record which stands at 04:03.84.
12:10 AM: Swimming - women's 100m butterfly final.
1:14 AM: Swimming - men's 100m breaststroke final.
Great Britain's Adam Peaty, who holds the world and Olympic record, will hope to win his third consecutive gold in the event. He will however face tough competition from China's Qin Haiyang.