Paris Olympics 2024: India's highs, lows and poor fours!

Indiarsquos Paris Olympics campaign concluded as Reetika Hooda fell short in the wrestling quarterfinals and golfers Aditi Ashok and Diksha Dagar finished out of medal contention A total of 117 athletes participated across 16 disciplines winning six medals mdash one silver and five bronze India just fell short of its previous best at Tokyo 2020mdashseven medals one gold two silver four bronze and ranked 48th Athletics led the way with a robust 29member squad while India also fielded its largestever shooting contingent 21Shooting stars on targetManu Bhaker became the first Indian woman to win a shooting medal at the Olympics and also the first Indian athlete in the postIndependence era to win multiple medals at the same Games Manu won bronze in the 10m air pistol event and then partnered Sarabjot Singh to become the first Indian shooting pair to win an Olympic medal Swapnil Kusale then won bronze in the menrsquos 50m rifle 3 positions mdash Indiarsquos first Olympic shooting medal in this event Prior to this India had never won more than two medals in a single sport at any Olympics with the previous best being two shooting medals at London 2012 and two wrestling medals at Tokyo 2020Bronze Swapnil Kusale shooting Aman Sehrawat wrestling Manu Bhaker 2 and Sarabjot Singh shooting Silver Neeraj Chopra javelin throw PicsAFP Getty ImagesNeeraj Chopra shines brightJavelin star Neeraj Chopra produced his careerrsquos secondbest throw of 8945m but was beaten to the gold by Pakistanrsquos Arshad Nadeem Olympic record of 9297m This was only Indiarsquos second Olympic medal in athletics Neeraj became Indiarsquos third twotime Olympic medallist after Sushil Kumar and PV SindhuAlso ReadIt was such a crucial match Amit Rohidas on missing the semifinalHockey heroes do it againWhen India beat Tokyo Olympics silver medallists Australia 32 in a group game here it marked their first win over the Aussies at the Olympics since 1972 India then went on to achieve backtoback Olympic medals in hockey after 52 years rallying to beat Spain 21 in the bronze medal match for a recordextending 13th Olympic hockey medalBronze Manu Bhaker 2 and Sarabjot Singh shootingAman the youngest medallistWrestler Aman Sehrawat bronze in 57kg menrsquos freestyle wrestling became Indiarsquos youngest individual Olympic medallist mdash 21 years and 24 days beating shuttler Sindhursquos recordmdash21 years one month and 14 days at Rio 2016Paddlers progressStar paddler Manika Batra became the first Indian TT player to progress to the prequarterfinals of the Olympics Olympic debutant Sreeja Akula matched her featJust off the podiumIndia had many agonising fourthplace finishes Shooters Arjun Babuta and Manu narrowly missed in the menrsquos 10m air pistol and womenrsquos 25m air pistol events respectively In the mixed skeet event Anantjeet Singh Naruka and Maheshwari Chauhan lost their bronze medal match to China by one pointIn archery Dhiraj Bommadevara and Ankita Bhakat lost their bronze medal match to USArsquos Brady Ellison and Casey Kaufhold 26 Lakshya Sen lost to eventual champion Denmarkrsquos Viktor Axelsen in the semis and followed it up with a bronze medal defeat to Malaysiarsquos Lee Zii Jia Weightlifter Mirabai Chanu 49kg also finished fourth Competing in her third Olympics Mirabai lifted a total of 199kg 88kg snatch 111kg clean and jerkFinally Vinesh Phogat 50kg freestyle who became the first Indian women wrestler to reach an Olympic final was disqualified after failing her second weighin She has appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport CAS seeking a joint silver medal If she wins India will match their Tokyo performanceThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever