India At Paris Olympics 2024 Day 8 (August 3) Highlights | Deepika Kumari's campaign ends in quarterfinals; Manu Bhaker misses her third shooting medal after a shoot-off against Veronica Major

Hello and welcome to Sportz Point's daily coverage of India At the Paris Olympics 2024. Today, we will bring you all the LIVE updates, news, scores, and results of Indian athletes on Paris Olympics 2024 Day 8.

This is Payal Debnath and Abhishek Goswami, bringing you all the updates from the web desk.

Manu Bhaker will look for her third medal in the Women's 25m Pistol event while Deepika Kumari and Bhajan Kaur will look to move to the next round.

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Aug 03, 2024 20:53 IST
Sailing
Nethra Kumanan finishes in 28th position in Race 4 and Race 5 respectively, and in 20th position in Race 6 in the women's dinghy event.
Nethra currently stands in the 24th position with 96 net points.



Aug 03, 2024 19:48 IST
Sailing
Indian sailor Vishnu Saravanan finishes in 21st and 13th positions in Race 5 and Race 6 respectively in the men's dinghy event.



Aug 03, 2024 19:18 IST
Shooting
Indian shooter Maheshwari Chauhan is at the 8th spot after Day 1 of the women's skeet qualification with 71 points while Raiza Dhillon is at 25th spot with 66 points.
 
Two more qualification rounds will be held on Sunday. Top 6 will qualify for the Final.



Aug 03, 2024 19:01 IST
Shooting
Anant Jeet Singh Naruka fails to qualify for the final after finishing 24th in the men's skeet qualification.



Aug 03, 2024 17:32 IST
Archery | Deepika loses 4-6 vs Su-Hyeon
5th set: This is the final set. A shoot-off will be required if scores remain tied.
Su-Hyeon gets an opening 10. 9 for Deepika.
Su-Hyeon scores 9 on 2nd try and Deepika scores 9 as well.
Su-Hyeon gets a 10 by the barest of margins and despite getting a 9, Deepika loses 27-29.
Su-Hyeon wins the match 6-4.



Aug 03, 2024 17:31 IST
Archery | The match is levelled 4-4
4th set: Su-Hyeon starts this set with a 10. Deepika responds with a 10, so that’s good despite a long hold.
Su-Hyeon gets a 9 on 2nd try but Deepika hits 7.
Su-Hyeon scores 10 on 3rd try and has a total of 29.
Deepika hits 10 but loses 27-29. The match is levelled 4-4.



Aug 03, 2024 17:27 IST
Deepika leads 4-2
3rd set: Su-Hyeon makes a strong start with a 10, but Deepika also hits a 10.
A 9 now from Su-Hyeon and Deepika also gets a 9. All equal so far.
Su-Hyeon hits 9 on 3rd attempt. And Deepika hits a 10 despite a long hold. The Indian wins the set 29-28 and leads 4-2.



Aug 03, 2024 17:24 IST
Archery | The match is tied 2-2
2nd set: Su-Hyeon starts with a 9. Deepika took her time and hit a 10.
Su-Hyeon bounces back with a 10. Another long hold and Deepika hit a 6.
Su-Hyeon leads by 3 points and adds a 9. Deepika finished with a 9 but lost 25-28.



Aug 03, 2024 17:23 IST
Archery | Deepika won first set
Deepika has taken a 2-0 lead by winning the first set.



Aug 03, 2024 17:20 IST
Archery | Deepika Kumari is in action in her quarterfianls event
In the quarter-finals, Deepika is up against Nam Suhyeon from the Republic of Korea.



Aug 03, 2024 16:29 IST
Shooting | Women's skeet qualification
India’s Maheshwari Chauhan is 14th while Raiza Dhillon is 27th after two rounds. There are 3 more rounds left for qualification, in which one round will be held today and two rounds will be held tomorrow. Chauhan scored 23/25 and 24/25 and Raiza scored 21/25 and 22/25 in their first two rounds.



Aug 03, 2024 15:40 IST
Shooting | Anant Jeet Singh Naruka moves up two spots after qualification fourth round
Anant Jeet Singh Naruka scores 24/25 in the fourth round of men’s skeet qualification round, climbing up two spots to 24th. One more round to go. Only top 6 will go to final and it seems higly unlikely Naruka will qualify.
After four rounds, Naruka’s score is 92: 23(first round), 22 (second), 23 (third) and 24 (fourth).



Aug 03, 2024 14:39 IST
Archery | Bhajan Kaur loses 5-6 to Diananda
Bhajan Kaur is out of the pre-quarterfinals. She had to face defeat against Dianda Chorunisa of Indonesia. After the fifth set, the score between the two players was equal at 5-5, but after this, Bhajan had to face defeat in the shootoff.
Shoot-off:
Diananda: She hits a 9.
Kaur: She hits an 8 and Diananda wins the match.



Aug 03, 2024 14:28 IST
Archery | The pre-quarterfinal match of Bhajan Kaur has started
India’s Bhajan Kaur now takes on Diananda of Indonesia in archery individual Round of 16 match. The match will start in a few moments.



Aug 03, 2024 14:22 IST
Archery | Deepika reaches quarterfinals

Deepika Kumari has won the pre-quarterfinal match against Michelle Kroppen of Germany. She won the match 6-3. With this, she has reached the quarter finals.
Deepika will be back in action at the Les Invalides at 5:09 PM today in the last eight.



Aug 03, 2024 14:16 IST
Archery | Deepika Kumari took the lead
Deepika Kumari has taken a 3-1 lead after the first two sets. The first set went to Deepika by 27-24. At the same time, in the second set both the players remained tied at 27-27.



Aug 03, 2024 14:06 IST
Archery | Deepika Kumari is in action
The competition of Indian archer Deepika Kumari has started. She is participating in the pre-quarterfinals against Michelle Kroppenof of Germany in the women's archery individual event.



Aug 03, 2024 13:57 IST
Shooting | Qualification Day-1 of Skeet Event
Maheshwari Chauhan and Raiza Dhillon are playing in the skeet event of shooting. In Qualification Day-1, Maheshwari is currently at15th and Raiza Dhillon at 25th.



Aug 03, 2024 13:34 IST
Shooting | Yang Jiin (KOR) wins 25m pistol women's gold
Korea's Yang Jiin won the gold. The French shooter won the silver medal and the Hungarian player won the bronze medal.
 
🥇Yang Jiin (KOR)
🥈Camille Jedrzejewski (FRA)
🥉Veronika Major



Aug 03, 2024 13:22 IST
Shooting | Manu misses the bronze medal by just one point in shoot-off

 
Manu Bhakar stood fourth with a score of 28 in the 25-meter pistol event. 
 
Bhaker was in medal contention for the majority of the series. Eventually, she was knocked out after a shoot-off against eventual bronze medallist Veronica Major of Hungary.



Aug 03, 2024 13:16 IST
Shooting | Manu returns in the 5th series
In the 5th series, Manu hit five consecutive targets, she has reached the third position.



Aug 03, 2024 13:11 IST
Shooting | Manu reaches number two
Manu hit 4 out of 5 targets in the third series, reached number 2.



Aug 03, 2024 13:09 IST
Shooting | Manu fights back
Manu Bhaker is in fourth place after the end of the second series.



Aug 03, 2024 13:05 IST
Shooting | Manu Bhaker's 25m Pistol final starts
However, a bizarre start from the 22-year-old as Manu Bhaker manages just two shots from a possible five. She is currently 6th in the list



Aug 03, 2024 12:58 IST
Day 8 schedule for Indian athletes
Golf
• Men's Individual Stroke Play Round 3 - Shubhankar Sharma & Gaganjeet Bhullar - 12:30 PM
Shooting
• Skeet Men's Qualification Day 2 - Anantjeet Singh Naruka - 12:30 PM
• Skeet Women's Qualification Day 1 - Raiza Dhillon & Maheshwari Chauhan - 12:30 PM
• 25m Pistol Women's Final - Manu Bhaker - 1:00 PM
Archery
• Women's Individual 1/8 Elimination Round - Deepika Kumari vs Michelle Kroppen (Germany) - 1:52 PM
• Women's Individual 1/8 Elimination Round - Bhajan Kaur vs Diananda Choirunisa (Indonesia) - 2:05 PM



Aug 03, 2024 12:57 IST
Day 8 Highlights
• Lakshya Sen beat Chou Tien Chen to become the first Indian badminton player to make the men’s singles semi-finals at the Olympics.
• Manu Bhaker ranked second in the women’s 25m pistol qualification round, will shoot for an unprecedented third medal at Paris 2024 in the final.
• India beat Australia in men’s hockey at the Olympics after 52 years.
• India recorded their best finish in archery at the Olympic games after Ankita Bhakat and Dhiraj Bommadevara narrowly missed out on a mixed team bronze medal.