NEW DELHI: Indian shooter Swapnil Kusale on Wednesday qualified for the finals of 50m rifle 3 positions here after finishing seventh in the qualification round but Aishwary Tomar ended at the 11th position to make an exit while Indian badminton heavyweights PV Sindhu and Lakshya Sen stormed into the pre-quarterfinals of the women's and men's singles events, respectively, with dominant wins.
Tokyo Olympics bronze-winner Lovlina Borgohain (75kg) began her quest for a second successive Games medal confidently as she out-punched Norway's Sunniva Hofstad in her opening bout.
Following is India's Day 5 schedule and results at the Paris Olympics on Wednesday (All timings in IST):Shooting12:30 PM: Swapnil Kusale (590 points) finishes 7th to enter the final of Men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions; Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar (589) finishes 11th12:30 PM: Rajeshwari Kumari (22nd) and Shreyasi Singh (23rd) fail to reach the final in Women's TrapBadminton12:50 PM: PV Sindhu beats Kristin Kuuba (Estonia) 21-5, 21-10 to enter Round of 16 in Women's singles Rowing1:24 PM: Balraj Panwar finishes last in Men's Singles Sculls Semifinals (C/D), qualifies for Final DBadminton1:40 PM: Lakshya Sen stuns third seed Jonatan Christie (Indonesia) 21-18, 21-12 to enter pre-quarterfinals in Men's singlesEquestrian 1:58 PM: Anush Agarwalla fails to qualify for the final in Dressage Individual Grand Prix eventTable Tennis2:30 PM: Sreeja Akula beats Jian Zeng (Singapore) 4-2 to enter pre-quarterfinals in Women's singles Boxing3:50 PM: Lovlina Borgohain beats Sunniva Hofstad (Norway) 5-0 to storm into in the Women's 75kg quarter-finalsArchery 3:56 PM: Deepika Kumari beats Reena Parnat (Estonia) 6-5 in Women's Individual 1/32 Elimination round4:35 PM: Deepika Kumari beats Quinty Roeffen (Netherlands) 6-2 in Women's Individual 1/16 Elimination roundTable Tennis8:30 PM: Manika Batra suffers 1-4 defeat against Miu Hirano of Japan in Women's Singles Round of 16Archery9:28 PM: Tarundeep Rai loses 4-6 to Tom Hall (Great Britain) in Men's Individual 1/32 Elimination roundBadminton11 PM: HS Prannoy beats Duc Phat Le (Vietnam) 16-21, 21-11, 21-12 in Men's singles (Group Stage) and advances to pre-quarters Table Tennis00:30 AM: Sreeja Akula loses 0-4 to top seed Sun Yingsha of China in Women's Singles Round of 16Boxing00:34 AM: Nishant Dev beats Jose Gabriel Rodriguez Tenorio (Ecuador) 3-2 in Men's 71kg Round of 16The TOI Sports Desk excels in a myriad of roles that capture the ...
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