Paris Olympics 2024 Day 3 Highlights July 29: Arjun Babuta finishes fourth in air rifle final; Manika Batra qualifes for TT Round of 16

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On July 30, Indian athletes will be in action across multiple disciplines such as badminton, shooting, hockey, archery and boxing.

Another flurry of points conceded at the end but a 11-7 win in the final game seals Manika’s progress to the round of 16 in the Women’s Singles. 

Manika bt Preethika - 11-9, 11-6, 11-9, 11-7

A small blip towards the end of the game but Manika manages to seal the game 11-9 to go within one game away from sealing progress. 

A more comfortable game for Manika this time, winning 11-6 to take a 2-0 lead in the round of 32 encounter. 

A tightly contested first game but Manika manages to deliver under pressure to turn a trailing 8-9 scoreline to a 11-9 win in Game 1. 

Romania’s David Popovici wins gold in the men’s 200m freestyle final ahead of Matthew Richards of Great Britain and Luke Hobson of the USA in a photo-finish. 

Popovici - 1:44.72

Richards - 1:44. 74

Hobson - 1:44.79

Carlos Alcaraz was made to sweat in the second set but he manages to win the tie break and seal a 6-1, 7-6 (3) win over Netherlands’ Tallon Griekspoor to progress to the third round. 

Summer McIntosh wins gold for Canada in a time of 2:05:59. USA’s Katie Grimes comes for silver in a time of 4:33.40 with compatriot Emma Weyant who finished with a time of 4:34.93. 

Gold - Japan

Silver - China

USA - United States

Alcaraz seals the first set 6-1 against Tallon Griekspoor in 42 minutes. 

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Carlos Alcaraz in action at Court Phillipe Chatrier against Netherlands’ Tallon Griekspoor. 

Yuto Horigome of Japan wins his second consecutive gold medal. USA wins the silver and gold with Jagger Eaton and Nyjah Huston respectively. 

South Korea beats France 5-1 to seal gold in the Archery men’s team event!

Korea bt France (57-57, 59-58, 59-56)

Turkey beats China 6-2 to win bronze in the Archery men’s team event!

Turkey bt China (55-54, 56-57, 55-54, 56-54)

France beats Turkiye 5-4 in the archery men’s team final after a shootoff. 

France vs Turkiye - 56-54, 53-57, 58-57, 55-56

The third seeds Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty qualify for the quarterfinals of the men’s doubles quarterfinal after the French pair of Lucas Corvee and Ronan Labar lost both its opening encounters. 

Sat-Chi’s match earlier today was cancelled after the German pair of Mark Lamsfuss and Marvin Seidel withdrew due to injury. 

South Korea beats China 5-1 in the archery men’s team semifinal.

Korea 54 - 54 China

Korea 57 - 54 China

Korea 56 - 53

Rafael Nadal’s men’s singles journey came to an end after Novak Djokovic beat him in straight sets (6-1, 6-4). Nadal remains in contention in men’s doubles with Carlos Alcaraz.

Tarun - 9

Pravin - 10

Dhiraj - 9

India scores 28 at the halfway mark of the set. Turkiye also scores 28 but their first arrow will be rechecked. 

Tarun - 9 

Pravin - 10

Dhiraj - 7 

India ends the set with 54. Turkiye seals the win with a 57-64 win in the fourth set.

India loses 2 - 6 to Turkey in the men’s team quarterfinal. 

Tarun - 10

Pravin - 9

Dhiraj - 9

India scores 55 in the third set. Turkiye ends with 54, but there is a check if one of Turkiye’s arrows will be promoted to a 10. 

The 9 has not been upgraded to 10 and the third set finishes 55 - 54. 

India 2 - 4 Turkiye

Tarun - 9

Pravin - 8

Dhiraj - 10

India scores 27 in the first three shots of the third set.

Turkiye scores 29 to take the lead at the halfway point.

India end set 2 with a score of 52. Turkiye manage to score 55 and seal the second set 55-52. 

India 0 - 4 Turkiye

Indian men’s team of Tarundeep Rai, Dhiraj Bommadevara and Pravin Jadhav score 53 at the end of the first round. Turkiye wins the round 57-53.

India 0 - 2 Turkiye

Novak Djokovic leads Rafael Nadal 6-1, 4-2 in the men’s singles second round match. Nadal wins his first break point of the game. 

Lakshya Sen beats Julien Carraggi 21-19, 21-14 in the Badminton men’s singles Group L encounter.

Lakshya manages to take the initiative and seal the first game 21-19 over Carraggi in the Group L encounter. 

Lakshya takes a slender 19-18 lead over Carraggi in the first game of the Group L encounter. 

Another break of serve completed by Djokovic who races to a 5-0 lead against Rafael Nadal. 

The equaliser comes too late for India to try and score a second. But an important draw in the scheme of things in Group for India. 

Goal!! Three continous penalty corners and Harmanpreet manages to score the equaliser with 1:54 left on the clock!

Lakshya trails Carraggi 5-7 in the first game of the group stage encounter. 

Novak Djokovic breaks Rafael Nadal to take a 2-0 lead in the first set of the men’s singles second round. 

India continues to trail in the men’s hockey group stage encounter with less than 11 minutes to be played in the game. With two tough encounters against Belgium and Australia coming up, Craig Fulton will be hoping his team can somehow make a comeback here. 

Novak Djokovic manages to hold serve to take a one-game lead in the the first set of the men’s singles second round encounter.

At the end of the third round of shots Prithviraj Tondaiman is currently 30th with a score of 68. Only the top 6 qualify for the finals. 

Penalty Stroke missed!! Maica Casella Schuth drags his penalty stroke wide! Argentina was awarded a penalty stroke after the ball struck the body of Jarmanpreet following a penalty corner. 

Iga Swiatek breezes past Diane Parry 6-1, 6-1 to move to the third round. Next up in Court Philippe-Chatrier - Rafael Nadal vs Novak Djokovic!

India trails at the break in the second group encounter against Argentina with Lucas Martinez’s goal proving to be the difference. 

GOAL!! Lucas Martinez takes a shot from the right of the goal, Sreejesh extends his right hand but doesn’t get enough. The ball trickles into the right end of the goal. Work to do for India.

Barbora Krejcikova leads Xinyu Wang 6-3

Angelique Kerber leads Cristian Jacqueline Adina 6-4

Donna Vekic leads Bianca Andreescu 6-3

India gets a penalty corner after the Argentinian defender makes contact on the ball with his leg. The chance goes begging as the defence manages to clear the shot following the PC.

Tom Daley and partner Noah Williams bag silver for Great Britain with a score of 463.44.

Junjie Lian and Hao Yang of China win gold with 490.35 while Canada’s Rylan Wiens and Nathan Zsombor-Murray win bronze with 422.13.

Iga Swiatek takes the first set 6-1 against local Diane Parry at the Court Philippe-Chatrier in Roland Garros. 

Babuta in the hot zone, a medal on the line for India.

He gets 10.5 on the first shot. He is 0.2 short of the third place.

Babuta follows with 9.5 and is knocked out! He finishes fourth!

Babuta manages 10.5 on the first shot, manages to stay second. Maricic gets the same score and sticks around.

Babuta with a 10.1 and drops to fourth. He is 0.3 behind the third-placed Lindgren. 

Italy’s Sollazzo is knocked out.

The next series start with 10.2 for the Indian. He slips to third place. China’s Lihao gets a perfect 10.9 and opens up a healthy lead.

A 10.7 to follow, he goes back up to the second place, tied with Maricic of Croatia. 

Croatia’s Gorsa is knocked out. 

Babuta starts this series with 9.9 and that will dent his chances. He stays second for now, though.

A much better 10.6 from Babuta in the second shot. He is second and 0.5 ahead of the third-placed Lindgren.

Korea’s Choe is out. 

Babuta gets 10.6 to start the series. He is back in the second place. 

A massive 10.8 for Babuta. Lihao has 10.4 and the gap narrows further.

Argentina’s Gutierrez is knocked out!

A 10.4 to close the second series. He drops to the third place for now.

That’s the preliminary stage! Arjun Babuta has 105.0. An elimination every two shots from now on.

A 10.6 again from Babuta. China’s Sheng Lihao gets 10.4 which means the Indian has cut the gap to the top place.

Babuta with 10.4 on the next attempt. He continues in second place.

A 10.5 from Babuta, he is now up in the second place.

The sixth shot gets Babuta 10.7 and moves him up to third place.

A 10.6 from Babuta. The consistency is there from the Indian. He is fourth, and just 0.1 behind the third-placed Lindgren of Sweden.

We’re at the half-way mark.

Babuta moves up to third with a 10.4 shot. 

The third shot gets Babuta 10.5. He stays fourth.

He starts off with a 10.7 and then follows it up with 10.2.

All eight shooter will take 10 shots following which one shooter will be eliminated every two shots.

We’re ready for the men’s 10m air rifle final where India’s Arjun Babuta will be in action.

The team of Ashwini Ponnappa and Tanisha Crasto lost 9-21, 11-21 to Nami Matsuyama and Chiharu Shida of Japan. 

This is the second straight loss for the Indian pair which all but ends their contention in Paris 2024.

The Indian pairing of Manu Bhaker and Sarabjot Singh ended the qualification round in 3rd place with a total of 580-20x. It will compete against Korea for the medal on Tuesday.

Here are there scores: 

Manu Bhaker 98 | 98 | 95 | 291-12x

Sarabjot Singh 95 | 97 | 97 | 289-9x

Ramita starts with 10.2. She is joint-fifth now. She is 0.2 ahead of the elimination spot. A 10.2 on the next shot. She is joint sixth. 

A shoot off for Ramita to stay alive! Ramita gets 10.5 to Muller’s 10.8. 

Ramita finishes 7th.

Ramita with 10.4 on the first shot which helps her open some space. A massive 10.5 on the elimination spot. She is up to 6th now.

Duestad of Norway eliminated!

Oh no! A 9.7 from Ramita. This sees her drop to the seventh spot. She is in the danger spots now.

An elimination now every two shots.

A 10.6 next, that’s some consistent shooting from the Indian. She’s closing in on the second place.

A 10.7! Ramita jumps up to the bronze medal position.

A 10.1 sees her drop to sixth place in the final. Still some way to go though.

10.4 to start the second series of shots from Ramita.

A 10.5 to follow from Ramita. She is fourth after five shots.

A perfect 10.9 on the fourth attempt. A perfect shot! She moves up to fourth now.

Ramita gets her best shot of the final - 10.6 - on the third go.

A 10.2 for Ramita on the second attempt. She is in fifth place at the moment.

Ramita gets 10.3 to start off. She has nine more shots before eliminations begin.

It is 193 points for the other Indian team. They sit just behind their compatriots. Manu with 98 points while Sarabjot gets 95.

The team of Rhythm Sangwan and Arjun Singh Cheema gets a total of 194 points in the first set of shots. They sit in the fifth place.

The final of the women’s 10m air rifle will begin at 1PM.

Each member of the side will shoot 30 shots in as many minutes. Teammates can fire independently of their partner. The top four teams will make the medal matches. 1 and 2 play for gold, 3 and 4 will face-off in the bronze medal match.

Manu Bhaker and Sarabjot Singh in mixed 10m air pistol qualification. The second team will be in action too, comprising of Rhythm Sangwan and Arjun Singh Cheema.

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Welcome to Day 3 of Paris Olympics. Arjuna Babuta and Ramita Jindal will compete in the men’s and women’s 10m air rifle finals, respectively. 

The men’s hockey team will play its second group stage match against Argentina. 

The men’s archery team of Dhiraj Bommadevara, Tarundeep Rai and Pravin Jadhav will be in contention for a medal in the evening, with its quarterfinal scheduled for 6:30PM.