Tokyo Olympics 2020 India Live Updates: The way the Indian men’s hockey team created history by winning the bronze medal on Thursday. Similarly, today i.e. on Friday 6th August, the Indian women’s hockey team also had a chance to win the bronze medal, which the women’s team could not capitalize on. India lost 3-4 in the bronze medal match.
Bajrang Punia reached the semi-finals, Victory by Fall
Indian wrestler Bajrang Punia showed a great game and won a strong victory in the second consecutive match. He secured a place in the semi-finals by defeating opponent Mortaza from Iran. After falling behind in the first round, Bajrang made a brilliant bet and won by Victory by Fall, hitting Mortaza and taking the next step towards the medal.
Bajrang Punia in quarterfinals
Indian wrestler Bajrang Punia won the men’s 65kg freestyle 1/8 final match against E Akhmadaliev of Kyrgyzstan and entered the quarterfinals of the Tokyo Olympics.
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India has so far won five medals in the ongoing Olympics in Tokyo, out of which two medals have come in the form of silver medals, while three medals have come in the form of bronze. India has won medals in four individual events, while one medal came as a team, which was won by the hockey men’s team.
women’s hockey team lost
The Indian women’s hockey team fought for the bronze medal against Rio Olympic gold medalist Great Britain, but India had to face defeat. Great Britain won the bronze medal at the Tokyo Olympics with a 4–3 victory. Indian women’s hockey team played well in the first quarter. However, both the teams could not score a single goal in the first quarter of the first half. A few changes were given to both the teams for goals, but neither could get the ball into the net.
The Indian women’s hockey team had to score a goal in the first minute of the second quarter. Elena Sian scored for Great Britain through 3D skills and opened the account in this bronze medal match. The second goal was scored by England in about the tenth minute when Sarah Robertson scored to convert the lead to 2-0, but the Indian women’s team also scored a comeback.
In the second quarter, Gurjeet Kaur scored and cut the lead. Not only this, when India got a penalty corner, Gurjeet again scored in the 11th minute to level India. Another goal was scored from India in the last few minutes of the second quarter. Vandana Kataria scored the third goal for India. India was leading 3-2 till halftime, but after that India could not get ahead.
Great Britain scored the third goal at the start of the third quarter of the match and the match was again tied. Captain Webb Holly scored for England. Thus in the third quarter, Great Britain left the match at 3-3. The fourth and final quarter of the match was special and exciting, with Great Britain’s Grace Bulson scoring from a penalty corner, which proved decisive, giving Great Britain a 4-3 lead and the lead lasted. doing. India did have some chances to level up, but the team trailed 3-4 and the bronze medal slipped from India’s hands.
Seema got lost
In the pre-quarterfinals of women’s 50kg freestyle, wrestler Seema Bisla lost to Tunisia’s Sarra Hamdi 1-3.
against medals
Hockey (Women): Bronze medal match, 7:00 am vs. Great Britain
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Athletics:
20km Walk (Women’s): Final, 1:00 PM
Players: Priyanka Goswami and Bhawna Jat
50km Walk (Men’s): Final, 2:00 PM
Player: Gurpreet Singh
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other matches
Wrestling: Last-16, 8:00 AM
Male: Bajrang Punia
Female: Seema Bisla
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athletics
Men’s 4x 400m Relay Round-1 Heat-2, 5:07 PM
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Golf: Women’s Individual Stroke Play Round 3, 4:00 AM
Players: Aditi Ashok and Diksha Dagar
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