Boxer Lovlina Borgohain assured a medal for India, defeating Chinese Taipei’s Nien-Chin Chen to reach women’s welterweight semifinals.
Deepika Kumari was knocked out after losing to Korea’s An San in the quarterfinals of the women’s individual archery. India women’s hockey team beat Ireland 1-0 in pool A match. Boxer Simranjit Kaur failed to reach the quarterfinal after losing her round of 16 match. Manu Bhaker and Rahi Sarnobat failed to reach the Women’s 25m Pistol final. India 3000m steeplechase athlete Avinash Sable set a new National Record but was unable to qualify to the next round. Catch all the live updates of Day 7 of the Tokyo Olympics here.
Yamaguchi on song
En route to this quarterfinal, Yamaguchi has won all her three matches in straight games. Both players are in form and you can expect this to be a pulsating, exhausting encounter.
Tennis update
FINAL FOR KHACHANOV
Russian Karen Khachanov set up an Olympic men’s singles final against either Novak Djokovic or Alexander Zverev by overpowering Pablo Carreno Busta in the last four on Friday.
The 12th seed, a former top-10 player who has struggled for consistency in the last three seasons, produced an impressive display in Tokyo to dispatch Carreno Busta 6-3, 6-3.
Khachanov is bidding to become the first Russian champion in the men’s singles since Yevgeny Kafelnikov struck gold in Sydney 21 years ago.
Sailing update
A great first outing on Day 7 of the Olympics for India’s Vishnu Saravanan, finishes 3rd in the Men’s One Person Dinghy Laser Race 9.
Golf Update
In Round of 2 of the men’s individual stroke play, India’s Anirban Lahiri is currently T18,while Udayan Mane is currently tied 57th.
History for Hungary
Hong Kong had to wait nearly 70 years to get its first Olympic swimming medal but its second came only two days later after Siobhan Haughey secured her second silver of the Tokyo Games in the 100m freestyle final on Friday.
The 23-year-old psychology major had already made history for Hong Kong by reaching an Olympic swimming final, finishing second in the 200m on Wednesday.
On Friday she swam the 100m free in 52.27 seconds, just 0.31 seconds behind Australian winner Emma McKeon
Shooting update
Already the 10m air pistol champion at Tokyo 2020, ROC’s Vitalina Batsarashkina is now the 25m pistol champion too.
She and Rep. of Korea’s KIM Minjung tie on 38 targets – a new Olympic record – before the ROC shooter wins a shoot-off 4–1.
XIAO Jiaruixuan (CHN) won bronze.
Trampoline Gymnastics update
All over in the women’s trampoline event, where China’s ZHU Xueying (56.635) edged out her compatriot LIU Lingling (56.350) to win gold.
Rio 2016 silver medallist Byrony Page (GBR) takes bronze on 55.735.
That means there will be no third medal for two-time defending champion Rosie MacLennan of Canada, who finishes fourth.
Deepika Kumari lose third set and she crashes out in the quarterfinal.
That was slightly disappointing from Deepika Kumari after a quality Round of 16 win over the Russian. The Korean two-time Olympic gold medallist was too good, but the Indian wasn’t at her best either. Deepika’s wait for an elusive Olympic medal seems to be getting longer with each passing Games.
World Record
South African Tatjana Schoenmaker smashed the long-standing women’s 200m breaststroke world record Thursday to win the Olympic gold medal.
The 24-year-old timed 2min 18.95sec to better the 2:19.11 set by Denmark’s Rikke Moller Pedersen in 2013.
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