Paris 2024 Olympics, Highlights Day 8 — August 3 updates: St. Lucia’s Julien Alfred wins women’s 100m gold; Nishant Dev loses in quarterfinals; Manu Bhaker 4th in 25m pistol

Team USA broke the World Record in the mixed 4x100 medley relay in its gold-medal-winning race. 

Hungarian powerhouse Kristof Milak stormed to a second Olympic gold with victory in a thrilling men’s 100 metres butterfly final on Saturday, while adding to the silver medal he won in the 200m event at the Paris Games.

• Gold medal- Thea Lafond (Dominica)
• Silver medal- Shaneika Ricketts (Jamaica)
• Bronze medal- Jasmine Moore (USA)

• Gold medal- Julien Alfred (Saint Lucia)- 10.72
• Silver medal- Sha’Carri Richardson (USA)- 10.87
• Bronze medal- Melissa Jefferson (USA)- 10.92

Julien Alfred beat Sha’carri Richardson to win 100m sprint gold. She registered 10.72 to help St. Lucia win its first Olympic medal. 

The women’s triple jump final has been delayed due to heavy rains. Dominica’s Thea Lafond leads while Shaneika Ricketts of Jamaica and Jasmine Moore of the USA are in second and third respectively. 

Nishant Dev loses to Max Verde after leading the first round. 

Big upset at the track and field events as the Netherlands beat mighty USA to win the 4x400m mixed relay race with an extraordinary timing of 3:07:43. 

• Gold medal- Netherlands (3:07.43)- European record
• Silver medal- USA (3:07.74)
• Bronze medal- Great Britain (3:08.01)

A comfortable 4-1 lead for India’s Nishant Dev after the first round. 

Nishant Dev in red takes on Mexico’s Marco Alonso Verde Alvarez

Marcus Thomsen (Norway): X

Payton Otterdahl (USA): 21.39

Jacko Gill (New Zealand): X

Joe Kovacs (USA): 21.69 

Tomas Stanek (Czechia): 20.31

Ryan Crouser (USA): 22.64

Zane Weir (Italy): X

Rajinder Campbell (Jamaica): 20.00

Chukwuebuka Cornnell Enekwechi (Nigeria): 20.58

Uziel Munoz (Mexico): 20.68

Leonardo Fabbri (Italy): X

Tom Walsh (New Zealand): X

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce confirms she is not participating in the 100m women’s sprint semifinal heat 2. 

As the athletes go into the penultimate event of the men’s decathlon event, Germany’s Leo Neugebauer leads the standings with 7410 points. Norway’s Markus Rooth (7271) and Grenada’s Lindon Victor (7191) follow in second and third respectively.

Qinwen Zheng became the first-ever Chinese tennis player to win a singles gold medal in the Olympics. She beat Croatia’s Donna Vekic in straight sets. 

Meanwhile, the USA beat Japan 1-0 in the extra time of the women’s quarterfinal and made it to the top four. 

Simone Biles is the Olympic Vault champion! She claims her third gold medal at the Paris 2024 Olympics and her seventh overall Olympic gold. 

Pole vault king Armand Duplantis comfortably sailed through the qualifiers on Saturday at the Stade de France, cementing his status as a clear favourite to win his second Olympic gold at the Paris Games.

The 24-year-old defending champion, who goes by “Mondo” Duplantis, has set the world record eight times, most recently breaking his own record in April in Xiamen with a 6.24-metre jump.

Athletes had to be among the 12 best performers or vault over a bar at least 5.8 metres high to go through to the final. Ultimately the highest jump was 5.75.

USA’s Vincent Hancock defended his Olympic men’s skeet title by pipping countryman Conner Lynn Prince in the final. Hancock missed two hits and ended with 58, one ahead of Prince. Chinese Taipei’s Meng Yuan Lee finished third to win bronze. 

Number two seed, China Chen Meng beat defending champion and number-one-seeded compatriot Sun Yingsha in the women’s singles table tennis final to claim gold.

Japan’s Nami Matyusama and Chiharu Shida have beaten Malaysia’s Pearly Tan and Muralitharan Thinaah to claim bronze medal in the badminton women’s mixed doubles event. 

With 71 out of 75 possible hits, Maheshwari Chauhan is placed eighth while Raiza Dhillon missed two hits to finish her third round with 23/25. She is placed 25th with 66/65 hits. The remaining two rounds will resume tomorrow. 

South Korea’s hegemony continues in archery, with Sihyeon Lim and Suhyeon Nam bagging gold and silver, respectively, in the Women’s Individual event. Lisa Barbelin of France claimed the bronze medal after beating Korea’s Hunyoung Jeon in the Bronze Medal Match. 

A total of 116 means it’s the end of the road for Naruka in Châteauroux in the men’s skeet qualification events. 

Vishnu Saravanan is 21st after race five. Boats ranked 1st - 10th in the Opening Series (10 races) progress to the Medal Race.

Nethra Kumanan finishes 28th in the Women’s Dinghy Race 4 event. 

Matthew Ebden and John Peers (Australia) won the gold medal in the Olympic tennis men’s doubles as they beat American pair Austin Krajicek and Rajeev Ram 6-7(6), 7-6(1) 10-8 

Deepika loses the set 27-29 and goes down 4-6 against the Korean to exit the competition in the quarterfinal. That’s the end of the veteran’s campaign. 

Deepika accompanies two 10s with a dismal 7, which allows the Korean to take the set 29-27 and draw level at 4-4. 

A thrilling 29-28 win in this set for Deepika, who now leads 4-2 against the Korean. 

The Indian shoots an abysmal six in the second set and loses 25-28 to allow the Korean to draw level at 2-2. 

Deepika wins the first set 28-26 to take a 2-0 lead against Suhyeon Nam of Korea. 

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Paris Olympics: Noah Lyles closes strong to advance in first round of 100m; rival Kishane Thompson cruises

Noah Lyles finished second in his opening heat of the Olympic 100 meters on Saturday but still advanced and kept alive his hopes for the sprint double.

Duplantis and eight others from Group A make it to the final after clearing 5.75m. Two others from Group B make the cut based on the same criteria. Two more qualify for the final with 5.70m. 

Armand Duplantis surpasses 5.75m with ease. The Qualification standard stands at 5.80. 

Heat 1 

Kishane Thompson - 10.00 - Q 

Benjamin Azamati - 10.08 - Q 

Reynaldo R. Espinosa - 10.11 - Q 

Heat 2 

Ferdinand Omanyala - 10.08 - Q 

Chituru Ali - 10.12 - Q 

Joshua Hartmann - 10.16 - Q 

Heat 3 

Louie Hinchliffe - 9.98 - Q 

Noah Lyles - 10.04 - Q 

Shaun Maswanganyi - 10.06 - Q 

Heat 4 

Oblique Seville - 9.99 - Q 

Abdul Hakim Sani Brown - 10.02 - Q 

Puripol Boonson - 10.13 - Q 

Favour Oghene Tejiri Ashe - 10.16 - q 

Heat 5 

Kayinsola Ajayi - 10.02 - Q 

Lamont Marcell Jacobs - 10.05 - Q 

Abdul-Rasheed Saminu - 10.06 - Q 

Benjamin Richardson - 10.06 - q 

Heat 6 

Akani Simbine - 10.03 - Q 

Ackeem Blake - 10.06 - Q 

Rikkoi Brathwaite - 10.13 - Q 

Heat 7 

Kenneth Bednarek - 9.97 - Q 

Emmanuel Eseme - 9.98 - Q 

Andre de Grasse - 10.07 - Q 

Emmanuel Matadi - 10.08 - q 

Heat 8 

Fred Kerley - 9.97 - Q 

Letsile Tebogo - 10.01 - Q 

Zharnel Hughes - 10.03 - Q 

The Netherlands thrashes Japan 5-1 in a Women’s Pool A hockey match. Meanwhile, in a Pool B match, Great Britain lost to Argentina 0-3. 

Spain beats Japan 23-8 in a Men’s Preliminary Round - Group B match. 

Great Britain wins the gold in the Rowing Men’s Eight event. Netherlands takes the silver while the United States settles for bronze. 

Suhyeon Nam of Korea beat Madalina Amaistroaie 6-2 to reach the quarterfinals. She will take on Deepika Kumari next. 

Deepika Kumari will face either Madalina Amaistroaie of Romania or Suhyeon Nam of Korea in her quarterfinal match. 

Romania clinched the gold in the Women’s Eight Finals, finishing in 5:54.39, ahead of Canada (5:58.84) and Great Britain (5:59.51). 

Tough luck for the Indian, who shoots an 8 in the shoot-out, compared to her opponent’s 9. Bhajan Kaur bows out of the competition but she didn’t go down without a fight. 

Bhajan wins the fifth set 27-26 and the score is now 5-5, forcing the contest to go into a shoot-out. 

The fourth set ends in a 28-28 tie and Bhajan Kaur takes the score to 3-5. 

Bhajan Kaur is now 2-4 behind after Diananda Choirunisa won the third set 28-26. 

The Indian levels the scores 2-2 after winning the second set 27-25. 

Bhajan Kaur loses the first set 28-29 and concedes a 0-2 lead against her Indonesian opponent. 

Deepika Kumari wins the contest 6-4 after the fifth set was tied 27-27. She goes through to the quarterfinals. 

Deepika loses the fourth set 27-29 as the German fights back to make it 3-5 in her favour. 

Deepika wins the third set 26-25 to take a 5-1 lead.

Deepika Kumari retains the lead after she drew the second set with the German, with both shooting 27. 

Deepika takes a 2-0 lead after winning the first set 27-24. 

The Indian archer begins her Women’s Individual 1/8 Elimination Round match against Michelle Kroppen of Germany. 

“I was nervous. Things aren’t always meant to be. I am already looking forward to the next round. I was trying to do my best. The fourth place is not a very good place to be in. I have been off social media. I am not checking my phone at all. I am looking forward to having lunch. I have been skipping lunch all this while, training at the range whole day.”

Japan beats Spain 4-3 in the Judo Mixed Team Event and advances to the quarterfinal, where it will face off against Serbia later today. 

An Se-Young of South Korea is through to the semifinal of the women’s badminton singles event with a 15-21, 21-17, 21-8 victory over Akane Yamaguchi of Japan. 

Dhillon is 26th out of a field of 29 competitors after Round 1 with a score of 21. 

Manu Bhaker goes down fighting and is eliminated in the third-place shoot-off by Veronika Major of Hungary. Manu finishes fourth after the shoot-off. 

Another 4 for Manu and she continues to be second after the fourth round of elimination. She is on 26, only behind Korea’s Jiin Yaang. 

A 4 from Manu and now she is in silver-medal position after the third elimination. 

A 5 from Manu. She moves to the bronze medal place. Asian Championships bronze medallist Trinh Thu Vinh exits with 16 hits in total.

Manu hits a 4 again to improve her standing to second. Korea’s Yang Jiin leads with 13 hits.

Manu Bhaker only registers two hits in the first series. But she bounces back with four in the next series and jumps to the fourth spot. 

Raiza Dhillon is placed 15th during Round 1 in the Skeet Women’s Qualification Event. 

Raiza Dhillon and Maheswari Chauhan are the Indians in action in the Skeet Women’s Qualification event. 

How does Skeet work: In skeet, 125 targets are fired at over five rounds. The qualification is shot across two days. Eventually, the six top athletes from qualification make the final. 

Serbia beats Netherlands 4-2 to advance to the quarterfinals of the mixed team event. 

Spain beats Refugee Olympic Team 4-0 in the Mixed Team Elimination Round of 32 match. It will face Japan later in the day in the Elimination Round of 16 match. 

The women’s singles badminton quarterfinals will take place from 12 PM IST onwards today. 

Spain and the Refugee Olympic Team will clash in the Mixed Team Elimination Round of 32 at 11:30 PM IST. 

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Paris 2024 Olympics, Day 8: Indians in action — August 3 schedule, full list of events, venues, timings in IST, live streaming info

On August 3, Indian athletes will be in action across multiple disciplines such as shooting, sailing, archery and boxing.