Paris Olympics 2024 Day 9 Highlights: Noah Lyles wins 100m final; Djokovic wins men’s singles gold; India through to hockey semifinal

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Paris 2024 Olympics, Day 10: Indians in action — August 5 schedule, full list of events, venues, timings in IST, live streaming info

On August 5, Indian athletes will be in action across multiple disciplines such as shooting, badminton, athletics and wrestling.

Noah Lyles wins the 100m final at Paris 2024!!! A personal best in the biggest race of his career for the American sprinter. One of the closest ever finishes we have had at the 100m in the Olympics!

Jamaica’s Kishane Thompson finishes second five-thousandths behind Lyles. Fred Kerley wins bronze with 9.81.

Canada’s Ethan Katzberg did enough to win gold in men’s hammer throw with a throw of 84.12. Hungary’s Bence Halasz wins silver with a 79.97m throw ahead of Mykhaylo Kokhan of Ukraine who threw 79.39m. 

USA’s Yared Nuguse wins semifinal 2 of the Men’s 1500m with a time of 3:31.72 ahead of countrymate Hobbs Kessler and Great Britain’s Neil Gourley finish second and third. 

Tokyo 2021 silver medallist, Kenya’s Timothy Cheruiyot, manages to sneak in to the final in 5th place. 

Australia’s Nicola Olyslagers fails in her third attempt of 2.02m to settle for silver in the women’s high jump. Yaroslava Mahuchikh seals gold before her final attempt. 

Australia’s Eleanor Patterson and Ukraine’s Iryna Gerashchenko stand third with their 1.95m jump. 

Norway’s Jakob Ingebrigsten wins semifinal 1 of 1500m with a time of 3:32.38 ahead of Great Britain’s Josh Kerr and Cole Hocker of USA. 

Australia’s Nicola Olyslagers clears 2.00m to keep the contest alive with Yaroslava Mahuchikh. Both jumpers fail to clear the 2.02 mark in its first attempt. 

World No: 1 Keely Hodgkinson qualifies for the 800m final with a 1:56.86. South Africa’s Prudence Sekgodiso is the second qualifier from the semi with 1:57.57. 

USA’s Juliette Whittaker and France’s Renelle Lamote make it through as the fastest third and fourth finishers. 

Shafiqua Maloney of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines registers a new National Record of 1:57.59 to seal qualification to the final.

Ethiopia’s Tsige Duguma registers a Personal Best of 1:57.47 to win the semifinal and qualify. 

Canada’s Ethan Katzberg starts the men’s hammer throw final with a 84.12m throw, almost six metres farther than everyone else!

Kenya’s Mary Moraa and Ethiopia’s Worknesh Mesele qualify for the final of the Women’s 800m final.

Moraa - 1:57.86

Mesele - 1:58.06 (PB)

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Kishane Thompson of Jamaica and Fred Kerley of USA qualify to the men’s 100m final from semifinal 3 with times of 9.80 and 9.84 respectively. 

Lamont Marcell Jacobs (ITA) and Kenneth Bednarek (USA) qualify as the lucky losers. 

South Africa’s Akani Simbine wins semifinal 2 with 9.87 ahead of Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo who clocked 9.91. 

Last edition’s gold medallist Lamont Marcell Jacobs clocks a season best to finish third with 9.92. He will have to wait for the result from the third semi to check his qualification status. 

Noah Lyles finishes second in the Men’s 100m Semifinal 1 with a 9.83 behind Jamaica’s Oblique Seville who wins the semifinal with a personal best of 9.81.

The two qualify directly to the final of the men’s 100m. 

In the final heat, Charles Dobson of Team GB, Alexander Doom of Belgium and Jevaughn Powell of Jamaica qualify for the final. 

Dobson - 44.96

Doom - 45.01

Powell - 45.12

Grenada’s James Kirani, Canada’s Christopher Morales-Williams and Sri Lanka’s Aruna Dharsana Singhapurage qualify for the final.

Kirani - 44.78

Morales-Williams - 44.96

Singapurage - 44.99

USA obliterates the World Record to win gold in the Women’s 4x100m medley relay with a time of 3:49,63 beating their previous record of 3:50.40 set in 2019.

Australia wins silver with 3:53.11 while China rounds out the podium with 3:53.23.

Team USA breaks World Record to win Paris 2024 Olympics women’s 4x100m medley relay

Team USA secured the gold in women’s 4x100m medley relay by bettering its own World Record on Sunday in Paris.

Goals from Duco Telgenkamp and Thijs van Dam helped Netherlands beat Australia in the third men’s hockey quarterfinal. Netherlands will face Spain in the semifinal. 

USA’s Quincy Hall, Nigeria’s Samuel Ogazi and Reece Holder qualify from Heat 4.

Hall - 44.28

Ogazi - 44.50

Holder - 44.53

Zambia’s Muzala Samukonga, Botswana’s Bayapo Ndori and Luca Sito of Italy qualify from Heat 3 of Men’s 400m.

Samukonga - 44.56

Ndori - 44.87

Sito - 44.99

China pips USA to gold in the Men’s 4x100m Medley Relay final with a time of 3:27.46. USA managed a strong fourth leg to finish in 3:28.01, ahead of France who clocked 3:28.38.

China - Jiayu Xu, Haiyang Qin, Jiajun Sun, Pan Zhanle

USA - Ryan Murphy, Nic Fink, Caeleb Dressel, Hunter Armstrong

France - Yohann Ndoye-Brouard, Leon Marchand, Maxime Grousset, Florent Manaudou 

USA’s Michael Normand, Jereem Richards of Trinidad and Tobago and Collen Kebinatshipi of Botswana qualify for the finals. 

Normand: 44.10

Richards: 44.31

Kebinatshipi: 44.45

Matthew Hudson-Smith from team GB, Christopher Bailey of USA and Havard Ingvaldsen qualify for the finals of the Men’s 400m.

Hudson-Smith: 44.78

Bailey: 44.89

Ingvaldsen: 45.46 

Bobby Finke wins the men’s 1500m freestyle with a World Record time of 14:30.67! He breaks Sun Yang’s 12-year old record of 14:31. 01 set at London 2012. 

Italy’s Gregorio Paltrinieri wins silver with 14:34.55 and Ireland’s Daniel Wiffen wins bronze with 14:39.63

Carlos Edriel Yulo of the Philippines wins gold in the Artistic Gymanstics Men’s Fault Final with a score of 15.116. Artur Davtyan of Armenia wins silver with 14.966 and Harry Hepworth of Great Britain wins bronze with 14.949.

Sarah Sjoestroem wins gold in the Women’s 50m freestyle final with a time of 23.71. Australia’s Meg Harris wins silver with 23.97 ahead of Yufei Zhang of China who clocked 24.20. 

Chinese Taipei’s Chi-Lin Wang and Yang Lee wins the Men’s Doubles gold with a 21-17, 18-21, 21-19 over Chang Wang and Wei Keng Liang of China. 

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Women’s Dinghy: 

Women’s Dinghy - Race 7 - Nethra Kumanan - 21

Women’s Dinghy - Race 8 - Nethra Kumanan - 31

Overall standings (Women’s Dinghy) - Nethra Kumanan - 25

Men’s Dinghy:

Men’s Dinghy - Race 7 - Vishnu Saravanan - 7

Men’s Dinghy - Race 8 - Vishnu Saravanan - 24

Overall standings (Men’s Dinghy) - Vishnu Saravanan - 18

India’s Shubhankar Sharma and Gaganjeet Bhullar finishes T40 and T45 respectively in the Golf Men’s individual stroke play.

USA’s Scottie Scheffler sealed gold with 19 under par with Tommy Fleetwood of Great Britain winning silver and Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama winning bronze. 

Chile’s Francisca Crovetto Chadid wins gold in the Skeet Women’s Final with a shoot-off win over Amber Jo Rutter of Great Britain. Both the competitors had scored 55 at the end of the regular competition. USA’s Austen Jewell Smith won bronze. 

Novak Djokovic becomes just the third man to complete a ‘Golden Slam’ in tennis with a 7-6(3), 7-6 (2) win over Carlos Alcaraz in the men’s singles final. 

Men to win all four slams and the Olympic gold:

Andre Agassi

Rafael Nadal

Novak Djokovic

Kim Woojin seals yet another gold for South Korea in the Men’s Individual Archery event. The South Korean beats USA’s Brady Ellison 6-5 in the final. Lee Wooseok sealed the bronze for Korea with a 6-0 win over Germany’s Florian Unruh. 

Algeria’s Kaylia Nemour won bronze in the Artistics Gymnastics Women’s Uneven Bars Final with a score of 15.700. China’s Qiyuan Qiu won silver with 15.500 with Sunisa Lee of USA winning bronze with 14.800. 

Aaron Chia and Wooi Yik Soh, who defeated India’s Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty win bronze in the men’s doubles with a 16-21, 22-20, 21-19 win over Denmark’s Kim Astrup and Anders Skaarup Rasmussen. 

China’s Liu Yang seals gold in the Men’s Artistic Gymnastics Rings Final with a score of 15.300. Compatriot Jingyuan Zou scored 15.233 to win silver with Greece’s Eleftherios Petrounias wins bronze with 15.100.

Djokovic takes the closely fought first set 7-6 (3) against the crowd favourite Carlos Alcaraz. 

Maheshwari Chauhan finishes 13th with a score of 118 after Day 2 of the Women’s skeet qualification. Raiza Dhillon finishes 23rd with 113 points. Both shooters miss out on qualification to the final which is taking place currently. 

Vijayveer Sidhu and Anish Bhanwala falter in the second qualification round. Vijayveer started the second round with a 100 and 98, but a 92 in his last series drop him out of the qualification position.

Anish on the other hand started with a 99 and 97 but shoots a 93 in the last series to finish 13th. 

Djokovic takes on Alcaraz in the men’s singles gold medal match.

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Lakshya Sen will play for a bronze medal. He pulled the great Viktor Axelsen right to the wire in the first game but the Dane proved he had more gears left in him. Lakshya was again dominant to start the second as he won seven points on the bounce. But yet again, Axelsen fought back and proved a step ahead.

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Paris 2024 Olympics: Lakshya Sen loses to Viktor Axelsen in badminton semifinal, to play for bronze on Monday

Lakshya will face Lee Zii Jia of Malaysia in bronze medal match on Monday.

Lakshya Sen opened the second game with seven points on the bounce. But yet again, Axelsen pulls back to not let Lakshya get too far ahead. The Indian is just ahead at the mid-way break.

Maheshwari Chauhan gets only 22 targets in the final series. That sees her drop from the 6th place to 13th - outside the qualification spots.

Raiza Dhillon yet to take the final series.

Jeswin Aldrin registers just one successful jump of 7.61m. He ends in the 13th place in his group and fails to make the final.

The Indian had three game point when he lead 20-17 but the defending champion fought back to take the opening game 22-20. A lot of positives to take for Lakshya but he’d be gutted to not close that game.

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India takes the shootout 4-2 and advances to the semifinals. It will once again play a medal match.

India beats Great Britain 4-2 in shootout to reach hockey semifinals at Paris 2024 Olympics

This is India’s second consecutive semifinal at the Olympics.

India holds on to the draw. Hardik Singh lets out a huge roar as he wins the final free hit for India which ensures the time runs out. The match moves to a shoot-off.

The second attempt goes in vain too for the Indian long jumper. He has just one chance left.

Maheshwari Chauhan stays in the sixth place after all shooters have completed their fourth series of shots. Raiza Dhillon in 25th place.

The Tokyo Olympics bronze medallist will take the ring at 3PM for her women’s 75kg quartefinal bout against China’s Li Qian.

The Indian fails to register a clear jump on the first of his three attempts. He has two left to make it into the final.

India holding on by a thread here. It survived four penalty corners in the third quarter with little to no attack to show for. Great Britain relentlessly sending bodies into attack now. Sumit is shown a green card for dangerous play.

India’s Jeswin Aldrin is about to take the track for the qualification round. The automatic qualification standard is 8.15 metres. 

Anish Bhanwala moves to the fourth place in qualification after scores of 98, 98, 97 in the three series of Stage 1. Indians at three and four as things stand.

Lee Morton! Great Britain is level. The ball comes into the Indian circle from the right. Morton is at the goal mouth and takes a swing. The ball deflects off an Indian stick which sort of wrong-foots Sreejesh in goal. 

India takes the lead! Harmanpreet Singh with his seventh goal at Paris 2024. India wins a Penalty Corner and the Indian captain is upto the task this time. The Indian camp is absolutely pumped. 

A problem for India. Amit Rohidas is shown a red card for violent conduct. India is down to 10 players for the remaining match.

We come to the end of the opening quarter. India had a flurry of penalty corners in the closing minutes but failed to convert. Harmanpreet Singh got a shot on target on the final try but the British keeper is up to the task. All level with three quarters to go.

The Indian clears the finish line in 9:23.29 to end eighth in the first Heat. While it is a season best for her, it fails to get her into the final.

Uganda’s Peruth Chemutai wins the heat with a timing of 9:10.51. The top five advance to the final.

Early intent from Great Britain. India defends back-to-back penalty corners. Amit Rohidas does a good job as first-rushers and blocks the drag flicks. PR Sreejesh is forced into action on another attack.

India’s Maheshwari Chauhan moves up to fifth place after firing a perfect score worth 25 points in the fourth series.

The top six will contest in the final.

PR Sreejesh, Jarmanpreet Singh, Amit Rohidas, Harmanpreet Singh, Sumit, Shamsher Singh, Manpreet Singh, Hardik Singh, Abhishek, Mandeep Singh, Gurjant Singh.

Vijayveer gets scores of 98, 98 and 97 in the three series of stage 1, along with 14 inner 10s, to sit in the third place.

The top six from the qualification go to the final.

India’s Anish Bhanwala and Vijayveer Sidhu in action in the first stage of qualification.