ESPN staffJul 30, 2024, 07:39 PM
India have added one more medal to their tally on Tuesday thanks to Manu Bhaker again. She teamed with Sarabjot Singh to clinch the bronze medal, her second of this Olympics, by beating South Korea in the 10m mixed team pistol final.
There no medal event on Wednesday but plenty of action involving the Indian athletes. Two-time medallist PV Sindhu will book her place to round of 16 if she wins her group stage match against Kristin Kuuba of Estonia.
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The big one in badminton though involves Lakshya Sen and Jonatan Christie for a place in the knockout round. Prannoy will also want to continue his winning run and progress to the next round.
NOTE: The event timings are in IST chronological order so post-midnight fixtures are including in the current date.
Here's a look at India's schedule for July 31, Wednesday:
12:30 PM: Shooting - Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar and Swapnil Kusale in action in the men's 50m rifle 3 position qualification round.
Kusale has made it through to the final after finishing seventh in the qualification. Aishwary won the gold medal at the 2023 Worlds, finished 11th and is out of the contention.
Swapnil Kusale make 3-position final, hopes to undo debacle of last year's Asian Games
1:20 PM: Rowing - Balraj Panwar, who was already out of medal contention, finished last in his classification race.
12:30 PM: Shooting - Shreyasi Singh and Rajeshwari Kumari in action in day 2 of the women's trap qualification.
12:50 PM: Badminton - PV Sindhu beats Kristin Kuuba in women's singles group stage action. She's through to the round of 16, where she will face He Bingjiao. Interestingly, Sindhu had beaten He Bingjiao to win the bronze at the Tokyo Olympics.
1:30 PM: Equestrian - Anush Agarwalla and Sir Caramello in action in day 2 of the dressage individual grand prix.
Not before 1:40 PM: Badminton - Lakshya Sen beats Jonatan Christie in the men's singles group stage.
Lakshya might potentially face Prannoy if the latter also wins his group match on Wednesday.
2:30 PM; Table Tennis - Sreeja Akula beat Zeng Jian 4-2 in the women's singles round-of-32
On Monday, Manika Batra became the first Indian table tennis player to reach the round of 16 at the Olympics. Sreeja now follow her compatriot into that stage as well, where she will face world no.1 Sun Yingsha of China. That match is on at 12.30 AM tonight
3:34 PM: Boxing - Lovlina Borgohain beat Sunniva Hofstad of Norway in the women's 75kg round of 16.
3:56 PM: Archery - Deepika Kumari defeated Reena Parnat in the women's individual round of 64 via shootoff and then beat Quinty Roeffen to advance into the round of 16.
7 PM: Shooting - women's trap final. Neither Shreyasi nor Rajeshwari qualified for the final.
8:30 PM: Badminton - Manika Batra lost to Miu Hirano in the pre-quarterfinal.
9:15 PM: Archery - Tarundeep Rai lost to Tom Hall in the men's individual round-of-64.
11 PM: Badminton - HS Prannoy beat Duc Phat Le in the men's singles group stage.
12:18 AM: Boxing - Nishant Dev vs Jose Gabriel Rodriguez Tenorio in the men's 71kg round of 16.
Nishant has been given a favourable draw as he looks for a medal in his debut Olympics, starting with this clash against the Ecuadorian.
12:30 AM: Table Tennis: Sreeja Akula vs Sun Yingsha
Other international medal events
2:15 PM: Triathlon -men's individual.
The event was supposed to happen on Tuesday, but it was postponed due to rising pollution level in the river Seine.
9 PM: Artistic gymnastics - Men's all-round final.
12 AM: Swimming - women's 100m freestyle final.
12:07 AM: Swimming - men's 200m butterfly final.
12:43 AM: Swimming - women's 1500m freestyle final.
The legendary Katie Ledecky of the USA is the defending champion in this event. She couldn't beat Ariarne Titmus in the 400m freestyle but here, she's a strong favourite along with her teammate Katie Grimes.
02:01 AM: Swimming - men's 200m breaststroke final.
Qin Haiyang of China is the world record holder in this event. At the last Olympics, he finished first in his heat but was disqualified for making an illegal kick after a turn.
02:09 AM: Swimming - men's 100m freestyle final.
The 19-year-old Pan Zhanle is the world record holder in this event with a timing of 46.80.
