Slowly however steadily, India have inched nearer to the Tokyo medal tally in Paris. Aman Sehrawat’s very good bronze medal within the males’s 57kg freestyle wrestling made him youngest ever particular person Olympic medallist from India at 21 years 0 months and 24 days. He bettered PV Sindhu’s file, who was 21 years 1 month and 14 days outdated when she received silver on the Rio Olympics 2016.
On Friday, India’s observe and area occasions got here to an in depth. There might have simply been a last to stay up for, however the males’s 4x400m relay staff missed out on a spot by a whisker, initially ending fifth of their warmth that was then upgraded to fourth.
Now, India’s hope of a seventh medal falls on Reetika Hooda in ladies’s 76kg wrestling. Particularly after the golfers had a forgettable outing on Friday.
Right here’s a have a look at the schedule for Saturday:
GOLF
Girls’s Particular person Spherical 4: 12.30 pm
Aditi Ashok, Diksha Dagar
Aditi Ashok completed Spherical 2 with a 1-under par general, recovering after a poor begin with a collection of birdies. Diksha Dagar can be 1-under Par general. The highest three nevertheless began to drag away so each Indians want extraordinary rounds to place themselves in competition.
WRESTLING
Girls’s Freestyle 76kg: 2.30 pm onwards (R16 to SF)
Aman did effectively to make sure India’s first wrestling medal and it stored a streak going that began again at Beijing 2008. Now the final Indian wrestler in motion will take to the mat. Might Reetika add to India’s tally? She begins off with a bout towards eighth seed Bernadett Nagy of Hungary, and if she will get previous that problem, a possible 2nd spherical awaits towards the highest seed. If
Girls’s Freestyle 76kg R16: Reetika vs Bernadett Nagy