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19:14 India women lose to Netherlands
The Indian women's hockey team fought valiantly in the first two quarters before losing the steam to go down 1-5 against World No. 1 Netherlands in their opening pool match at the Tokyo Olympics on Saturday.
Felice Albers gave Netherlands the lead in the sixth minute before the advantage was evened out by India skipper Rani Rampal in the 10th minute.
The Indians defended bravely in the first two quarters to go into the half time locked at 1-1 but the break seemed to have broken their momentum as the Dutch came out all guns blazing after the change of ends and pumped in three goals to nip any chance of an upset in the bud.
Margot van Geffen (33rd minute) restored Netherlands' lead soon after the resumption before the three-time Olympic champions and reigning silver medallist scored two goals in quick succession through Albers (43rd) and Frederique Matla (45th) to take control of the proceedings.
If that was not enough, there was more agony in store for the Indians as Caia Jacqueline van Maasakker slammed home from their sixth penalty corner in the 52nd minute.
India will play Germany in their next Pool A match on July 26.
Felice Albers gave Netherlands the lead in the sixth minute before the advantage was evened out by India skipper Rani Rampal in the 10th minute.
The Indians defended bravely in the first two quarters to go into the half time locked at 1-1 but the break seemed to have broken their momentum as the Dutch came out all guns blazing after the change of ends and pumped in three goals to nip any chance of an upset in the bud.
Margot van Geffen (33rd minute) restored Netherlands' lead soon after the resumption before the three-time Olympic champions and reigning silver medallist scored two goals in quick succession through Albers (43rd) and Frederique Matla (45th) to take control of the proceedings.
If that was not enough, there was more agony in store for the Indians as Caia Jacqueline van Maasakker slammed home from their sixth penalty corner in the 52nd minute.
India will play Germany in their next Pool A match on July 26.
17:24 Olympics Updates: Takato wins Japan's first gold
Naohisa Takato won the final of the men's 60kg judo to give host nation Japan their first gold medal of the Tokyo Olympics on Saturday, defeating Yang Yung-wei of Taiwan in the final.
Takato's victory underscored Japan's strength at a sport that originated in the country. Bronze medals went to Yeldos Smetov of Kazakhstan and Luka Mkheidze of France.
The dramatic victory that left Takato in tears stood in contrast to the lack of fans at an empty arena at the Nippon Budokan, a mecca of Japanese martial arts and concert venues.
Japanese female judoka Funa Tonaki reached the final in her 48kg class but lost to Kosovo's Distria Krasniqi.
Tonaki, a one-time world champion making her Olympic debut, won a nailbiting semi-final with an ippon - judo's equivalent of a knockout - by pinning Ukraine's Daria Bilodid in Golden Score overtime.
Japan's triple world champion Takato, a bronze medallist at the Rio 2016 Games, had a close shave in his quarter-final in the 60kg class, winning during Golden Score overtime on a foul by his Georgian opponent Lukhumi Chkhvimiani.
In the elimination round of 16, Takato had delivered an ippon against Belgian Jorre Verstaeten.
Tonaki, 25, had earlier defeated Paula Pareto of Argentina and Hungary's Eva Csernoviczki.
In between matches at the eight-sided Nippon Budokan, which was built for the Olympics Japan hosted in 1964, sanitation workers poured disinfectant spray over yellow tatami mats to minimise the risk of coronavirus infection.
Blaring pop, rock and dance music was used to generate an atmosphere before the bouts.
Naohisa Takato won the final of the men's 60kg judo to give host nation Japan their first gold medal of the Tokyo Olympics on Saturday, defeating Yang Yung-wei of Taiwan in the final.
Takato's victory underscored Japan's strength at a sport that originated in the country. Bronze medals went to Yeldos Smetov of Kazakhstan and Luka Mkheidze of France.
The dramatic victory that left Takato in tears stood in contrast to the lack of fans at an empty arena at the Nippon Budokan, a mecca of Japanese martial arts and concert venues.
Japanese female judoka Funa Tonaki reached the final in her 48kg class but lost to Kosovo's Distria Krasniqi.
Tonaki, a one-time world champion making her Olympic debut, won a nailbiting semi-final with an ippon - judo's equivalent of a knockout - by pinning Ukraine's Daria Bilodid in Golden Score overtime.
Japan's triple world champion Takato, a bronze medallist at the Rio 2016 Games, had a close shave in his quarter-final in the 60kg class, winning during Golden Score overtime on a foul by his Georgian opponent Lukhumi Chkhvimiani.
In the elimination round of 16, Takato had delivered an ippon against Belgian Jorre Verstaeten.
Tonaki, 25, had earlier defeated Paula Pareto of Argentina and Hungary's Eva Csernoviczki.
In between matches at the eight-sided Nippon Budokan, which was built for the Olympics Japan hosted in 1964, sanitation workers poured disinfectant spray over yellow tatami mats to minimise the risk of coronavirus infection.
Blaring pop, rock and dance music was used to generate an atmosphere before the bouts.
16:43 Vikas Krishan loses in 1st round
Indian boxer Vikas Krishan (69kg) crashed out in the first round of the men's boxing at the Tokyo Olympics at the Ryogoku Kokugikan arena on Friday.
Krishan left with a bloodied eye by Japan's Sewonrets Quincy Mensah Okazawa in his opening bout as he was outclassed 0-5, outplayed in all three rounds.
Okazawa dominated from start to finish, who seemed like a nimble-footed dancer in the ring, controlling the proceedings with utmost ease against the two-time Olympian Indian.
On Sunday, six-time world champion M C Mary Kom (51kg) and Commonwealth Games silver-medallist Manish Kaushik will compete in their opening bouts.
Indian boxer Vikas Krishan crashed out in the first round of the men's welterweight boxing event at the Tokyo Olympics at the Ryogoku Kokugikan arena on Friday.
Indian boxer Vikas Krishan (69kg) crashed out in the first round of the men's boxing at the Tokyo Olympics at the Ryogoku Kokugikan arena on Friday.
Krishan left with a bloodied eye by Japan's Sewonrets Quincy Mensah Okazawa in his opening bout as he was outclassed 0-5, outplayed in all three rounds.
Okazawa dominated from start to finish, who seemed like a nimble-footed dancer in the ring, controlling the proceedings with utmost ease against the two-time Olympian Indian.
On Sunday, six-time world champion M C Mary Kom (51kg) and Commonwealth Games silver-medallist Manish Kaushik will compete in their opening bouts.
15:07 Indian lifter Mirabai Chanu wins silver
India's table tennis player Sutirtha Mukherjee on Saturday won her opening game in the women's singles event here at Tokyo Metropolitan Gym -- Table 1 in the ongoing Tokyo Olympics.
Mukherjee defeated Sweden's Linda Bergstroem 5-11, 11-9, 11-1, 11-9, 11-3, 11-9, 11-5 in her women's singles round 1 match.
Earlier in the day, weightlifter Mirabai Chanu gave India's it's first medal at the Tokyo Olympics, winning a silver in 49 kg category.
14:43 Indian lifter Mirabai Chanu wins silver
South Korea won the gold medal in the archery mixed team event on Saturday, bringing the country's its first gold at the Tokyo Olympics on Saturday.
Netherlands took silver and Mexico claimed bronze.
(Image: South Korea's An San and Kim Je Deok wave their national flags after winning gold on Saturday. Photograph: Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters)
Earlier in the day, weightlifter Mirabai Chanu gave India's it's first medal at the Tokyo Olympics, winning a silver in 49 kg category.
13:13 Silver for India in weightlifting
Manika Batra got the better of Great Britain's Tin Tin Ho 4-0 in the opening round of her singles match at the Tokyo Olymics. It's a 3rd consecutive win for Manika against the British player.
Manika will next face World No 32 Ukraine's Margaryta Pesotska.
Earlier, weightlifter Mirabai Chanu gave India's it's first medal at the Tokyo Olympics, winning a silver in 49 kg category.
12:30 India get medal in weightlifting
Indian shooter Saurabh Chaudhary finishes respectable 7th in Final of 10m Air Pistol event. This means there is no medal for India in shooting today.
Earlier, weightlifter Mirabai Chanu gave India's it's first medal at the Tokyo Olympics, winning a silver in 49 kg category.
12:26 Only second Indian lifter to do win a medal
Weightlifter Mirabai Chanu gives India's it's first medal at the Tokyo Olympics, winning a silver in 49 kg category.
She becomes only 2nd Indian weightlifter to win an Olympic medal.
Indian badminton men's doubles team of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy & Chirag Shetty fightback to down Taipei duo 21-16, 16-21, 27-25 in their 1st match of the group stage.
Tennis player Sumit Nagal also fought off a strong challenge from Denis Istomin to record a 6-4, 6-7, 6-4 win to ennter the second round where he will face World No. 2 Daniil Medvedev.
12:02 Only 2nd Indian weightlifter to win an Olympic medal
She becomes only 2nd Flag of India weightlifter ever to win an Olympic medal.
11:48 End of their campaign
India's Deepika Kumari and Pravin Jadhav lost to mighty South Korea 2-6 in quarter-finals of the Mixed Team event.
11:11 Lifter Chanu lifts 84kg in 1st attempt of Snatch
India's Sai Praneeth goes down to World No 47 Misha Zilberman 17-21, 15-21 in their badminton 1st Group stage match.
This is Praneeth's first defeat to Zilberman in their 4 outings.
In the badminton men's doubles match, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy & Chirag Shetty take the 1st game 21-16 against Taipei duo in their 1st Group stage match.
Meanwhile, weightlifter Mirabai Chanu lifts 84kg in 1st attempt of Snatch.
In tennis news, India's Sumit Nagal has won the first set 6-4 in the 1st round match against 197 Denis Istomin of Uzbekistan.
Istomin wins 2nd set in tiebreak to make it one set apiece.
10:49 Abhishek in 8th spot
Saurabh Chaudhary qualifies for the 10m Air Pistol shooting final after ending with 97 in series six for a final score of 586.
His position is yet to be determined as other shooters are still firing.
Abhishek gets 97 in his fourth series to climb up to No. 8. Top eight shooters qualify for the final.
In badminton, Sai Praneeth has a bad start to his 1st Group stage match.
Loses 1st game against World No 47 Misha Zilberman 17-21.
10:33 1 more series to go in 10m Air Pistol event
The 10m Air Pistol shooting event has started and India's Saurabh Chaudhary has moved to the top spot shooting 98 points in the 5th series.
Top eight qualify for the final in the event.
Abhishek Verma moves to 15th spot.
In tennis news, India's Sumit Nagal has won the first set 6-4 in the 1st round match against 197 Denis Istomin of Uzbekistan.
09:23 Sushila Devi's judo campaign ends
India's Sharath Kamal and Manika Batra lose in the mixed doubles Round-of-16 match. They go down against 3rd seeds Lin Yun Ju and Cheng I Ching 0-4.
08:44 Sushila Devi's judo campaign ends
India's lone judoka Sushila Devi Likmabam starts her campaign against Hungary's Eva Csernoviczki in the women's 48 kg category in the Elimination Round of 32.
Halfway through the match Csernoviczki finds it difficult to score. After struggling, Csernoviczki pins Sushila Devi down for 20 seconds and gets the Ippon. And with that Shushila Devi's journey comes to an end here in Tokyo.
08:31 India beat New Zealand 3-2 in a thriller
Back-to-back PCs awarded to New Zealand but Indian goalie PR Sreejesh pulls off a stunning save to keep a Kane Russell bullet out. Superb work from India's wall. It is still NZ 2- 3 IND in the fourth quarter.
In the 59th minute Sreejesh executed a full-stretch dive to his right to deny New Zealand the equaliser. Moments later, he pulled off another remarkable save! Phew!
India beat New Zealand 3-2 in a thriller. Harmanpreet scored two goals, Rupinder Pal Singh with one and PR Sreejesh stood tall with a series of stunning saves in the dying minutes.
08:17 India leads 3-2 after third quarter in men's hockey
In the 43rd minute New Zealand lessen the deficit. The Black Sticks use the right flank to send the ball in and Stephen Jenness converts from close-range. India leads 2-3 in men's hockey against New Zealand.
Meanwhile, Australia beat Japan 5-3 to register the first points in Hockey at the Tokyo Olympics. The Aussies are in the same group (Pool A) as India and New Zealand.
China's Yang Qian
08:08 China's Yang wins first gold medal of Tokyo Olympics
China's Yang Qian won the first gold medal of the Tokyo Olympics in the women's 10-meter rifle competition.
The silver went to Russian shooter Anastasiia Galashina and the bronze medal went to Switzerland's Nina Christen.
07:45 Harmanpreet scores his second of the match
Harmanpreet Singh is on fire and scores his second goal of the match through a penalty corner.
He beautifully navigates the ball to the back of the net with sheer power as India leads 3-1 against New Zealand in the third quarter.
Men's lightweight double sculls rowing:
India's Arjun Lal and Arvind Singh are in action in heat 2 -- and they are up against some big-names including the world champions from Ireland Fintan McCarthy and Paul O'Donovan. The champs start a bit slowly but by the end they are so far ahead of the crowd.
The Czechs bag the other automatic qualifying spot.
The Indians finish fifth, beating Uruguay -- and will have another go in the repechage rounds.
07:18 India take a crucial 2-1 lead in men's hockey
In the hockey men's Pool A match India to face a daunting task against New Zealand.
New Zealand won its first penalty corner and Kane Russell converts it with precision in the 6th minute of the match.
In no time Rupinder Pal won a penalty stroke from a penalty corner and he sent New Zealand keeper Leon Hayward the wrong way from close range to equalise.
PR Sreejesh pulled off a brilliant save for India as New Zealand messes up another penalty corner. India survived four back-to-back penalty corners.
After first quarter, NZ 1-1 IND.
Harmanpreet Singh scores as India take a crucial 2-1 lead
06:55 India beat Chinese Taipei, sail into quarters in mixed pair
The mixed duo of Deepika Kumari and Pravin Jadhav bounced back from behind to knock out Chinese Taipei and book a quarterfinal berth.
Trailing 1-3 after they lost the first set by one point, Team India needed to win the third set to save their fortunes and the duo, who were shooting together at international level for the first time, showed perfect coordination to seal the issue 5-3 in style.
Later in the day, the Indian duo will face the winners of top seed Korea and Bangladesh in the mixed pair section, which is making its Olympics debut at Tokyo.
Elavanil Valarivan
06:50 Apurvi, Elavenil fail to qualify for 10m air rifle final
Welcome to the updates of Tokyo 2020 Games. Day 2 will have a lot of Indians in action.
Shooters were off to a poor start at the Tokyo Olympics as first-timer Elavanil Valarivan and Apurvi Chandela failed to qualify for the finals of the women's 10m air rifle event.
Making her Olympic debut, Elavanil finished 16th after shooting 626.5 over six series of 10 shots each, while the more experienced Apurvi settled for the 36th place after aggregating 621.9 at the Asaka Range.
The Indians were off to a decent start and even as Apurvi slipped after that, the 21-year-old Elavenil tried to remain in the contest with a fine performance in the third series, including shooting a perfect 10.9.
However, Elavenil could not maintain the same form and a couple of 9s in the fifth and sixth series pushed her further down. Apurvi had finished 34th at the 2016 Rio Games
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