Within the Paris Olympics, there are a number of disciplines during which India might be represented by only one or a couple of athletes. A few of them have an opportunity to win medals, whereas most might be competing to present their finest within the largest sporting occasion. Let’s check out the athletes in these disciplines.
Weightlifting
Mirabai Chanu (pic, above), who gained a silver medal for India on the opening day of the Tokyo Olympics, might be competing in her third consecutive Video games. Regardless of latest accidents, she has recovered properly from a hip damage she sustained in the course of the Asian Video games final yr. She is set to copy her efficiency within the ladies’s 49kg weight class in Paris.
In April, Mirabai totalled 184kg upon her return to competitors on theÂ î –IWF World Cup after a five-month damage layoff. To safe a medal within the Olympics, she might want to elevate greater than 200kg. Though China’s Hou Zhihui is a robust favorite for the gold, the competitors for the remaining two medals is anticipated to be robust amongst 4 athletes: Mirabai, Thailand’s Surodchana Khambao, the USA’s Jourdan Elizabeth Delacruz, and Romania’s Mihaela-Valentina Cambei, who’re all able to lifting round 200kg.
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Mirabai’s main concern is to keep away from additional accidents to have an opportunity at profitable her second Olympic medal on August 7.
Tennis
Indian tennis participant Rohan Bopanna, a top-10 doubles star, might be a key attraction at Stade Roland Garros. Earlier this yr, Bopanna, the oldest man to win a Grand Slam, triumphed on the Australian Open with accomplice Matthew Ebden. He has chosen Sriram Balaji as his accomplice, contemplating Balaji’s experience on clay courts and taking part in model, which can complement Bopanna’s. One other member of the tennis squad is singles participant Sumit Nagal, who has demonstrated good kind in earlier Grand Slam tournaments and has achieved a career-best world rating of 71. Nagal has additionally secured his spot within the Olympics for the second time after profitable the Heilbronn Challenger and reaching the ultimate of one other Challenger occasion in Perugia.
Age no bar: Rohan Bopanna grew to become the oldest man to win a Grand Slam title as he and accomplice Mathew Ebden lifted the Australian Open males’s doubles title in January this yr.
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Age no bar: Rohan Bopanna grew to become the oldest man to win a Grand Slam title as he and accomplice Mathew Ebden lifted the Australian Open males’s doubles title in January this yr.
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The Indians might be in motion between July 27 and August 4.
Golf
FILE PHOTO: India’s Aditi Ashok in motion.
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FILE PHOTO: India’s Aditi Ashok in motion.
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India has 4 skilled golfers for the upcoming Olympics, together with two males (Shubhankar Sharma and Gaganjeet Bhullar) and two ladies (Aditi Ashok and Diksha Dagar). Aditi, collaborating in her third Olympics, is anticipated to carry out properly after ending fourth on the Tokyo Video games. With seven skilled titles and an Asian Video games silver underneath her belt, she is set to enhance her efficiency and make historical past.
Diksha, a Deaflympics gold medallist and a two-time Girls European Tour winner, may also depend on her expertise from the Tokyo Video games to excel within the upcoming occasion. Sharma and Bhullar, each with a number of skilled wins, are anticipated to adapt properly to the aggressive atmosphere of the Video games.
The competitors will function high stars akin to Scottie Scheffler and Rory Mcllroy amongst males and Nelly Korda and Lilia Vu amongst ladies. The boys’s occasion will start on August 1, and the ladies’s occasion will begin on August 7.
Crusing
FILE PHOTO: India’s Nethra Kumanan in motion.
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FILE PHOTO: India’s Nethra Kumanan in motion.
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Vishnu Saravanan and Nethra Kumanan will participate in males’s and ladies’s one-person dinghy, respectively, within the waters of Marseille. Each will participate of their second Olympics. Races 1–10 are scheduled for August 1, whereas the medal race is on August 7.
Swimming
Srihari Natraj and 14-year-old woman Dhinidhi Desinghu have been chosen to characterize India underneath the universality quota. Srihari (males’s 100m backstroke) will seem in his second Olympics, whereas Dhinidhi (ladies’s 200m freestyle) is all set to make her debut. Their heats have been scheduled for July 28.
Equestrian
Anush Agarwalla, a member of the Asian Video games gold medal-winning crew and a person bronze medallist in dressage, would be the lone rider from the nation. His occasion is on July 30, 31, and August 4.
Rowing
Balraj Panwar would be the solely Indian consultant in rowing. He’ll compete within the males’s single sculls class from July 27 onwards.
Judo
Commonwealth Video games silver medallist, Tulika Maan, competing in ladies’s +78kg, would be the solitary Indian judoka within the Video games. She might be seen in motion on August 1.