India at Paris Olympics 2024, Day 4 Highlights: Manu-Sarabjot clinch bronze in shooting; Boxers Amit, Jaismine and Preeti ousted

India at Paris Olympics 2024, Day 4 LIVE Updates: Day 4 is done and dusted!

And with that, the fourth day of the 2024 Paris Olympics comes to an end. Shooters Manu Bhaker and Sarabjot Singh clinched a memorable bronze medal, but it was heartbreak for India’s boxers as Amit Panghal, Jaismine Lomboria and Preeti Pawar all suffered exits. Satwik-Chirag pair finished their badminton group stages with a win. As we bid you goodbye for the day, we leave you with a complete recap of all of India’s results today:

Shooting

Men’s Trap: Prithviraj Tondaiman finished 21st with 118 points to miss out on qualifying for the final

Women’s Trap: Shreyasi Singh with scores of 22, 22, 24 and Rajeshwari Kumari with 22, 21 and 25 after first day’s qualification round.

Shooting

10m Air Pistol Mixed Team: Manu Bhaker-Sarabjot Singh win bronze medal vs Korea

Rowing

Men’s Singles Sculls Quarter-finals: Balraj Panwar finishes fifth in his quarterfinal to move into semi-finals C/D to make up the classification

Hockey

Men’s Pool B Match: India beat Ireland 2-0

Archery

Women’s Individual 1/32 Elimination Round: Ankita Bhakat lost 4-6 to Wioleta Myszor, Bhajan Kaur beat SN Kamal 7-3

Women’s Individual 1/16 Elimination Round: Bhajan Kaur beat Wioleta Myszor 6-0

Men’s Individual 1/32 Elimination Round: Dhiraj Bommadevara defeats Adam Li of Czech Republic 7-1

Men’s Individual 1/16 Elimination Round: Dhiraj Bommadevara loses to Eric Peters of Canada 5-6

Badminton

Men’s doubles (Group stage): Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty beat Alfian Fajar and Muhammad Rian Ardianto (Indonesia) 21-13, 21-13

Women’s Doubles (Group stage): Ashwini Ponnappa and Tanisha Crasto lose to Setyana Mapasa and Angela Yu (Australia) 15-21, 10-21

Boxing

Men’s 51kg Round of 16: Amit Panghal loses to Patrick Chinyemba (Zambia) 1-4

Women’s 57kg Round of 32: Jaismine Lamboria loses to Nesthy Petecio (Philippines) 0-5

Women’s 54kg Round of 16: Preeti Pawar loses to Yeni Marcela Arias (Colombia) 2-3

India at Paris Olympics 2024, Day 4 LIVE Updates: A look at the scorecard of Preeti vs Arias

Let’s now take a quick look at the full match scorecard of Preeti Pawar’s last 16 bout against Arias in boxing:

India at Paris Olympics 2024, Day 4 LIVE Updates: Preeti bows out, disappointing day for Indian boxers

India’s Preeti Pawar bows out of the women’s 54 kg boxing after a split decision loss to Colombia’s Yeni Marcela Arias in the last 16 bout. Arias wins the bout with a scoreline of 3-2. Preeti struggled to respond to her opponent’s attacking moves, and although she did look to respond strongly in between, it was always going to be tough.

India at Paris Olympics 2024, Day 4 LIVE Updates: Attacking Arias

Arias is giving Preeti a tough time out there as she initiates a few attacking moves. Preeti is just looking to defend and is a little cautious with her approach right now. It’s still a close contest with the judges giving 3-2 in favour of Preeti in the second round.

India at Paris Olympics 2024, Day 4 LIVE Updates: Arias takes first round

Colombia’s Yeni Marcela Arias has shown precision in this bout against Preeti Pawar so far, and eventually goes on to take the first round, with the judges ruling 4-1.

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 4 LIVE Updates: Preeti Pawar in action

Right. Tie for India’s final event of the day in Paris. Boxer Preeti Pawar, in the red corner, faces Yeni Marcela Arias of Colombia in the blue corner. The women’s 54 kg last 16 bout is about to get underway.

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 4 LIVE Updates: Simone Biles' USA gymnastics team win gold!

Simone Biles has guided the USA women’s gymnastics team to the gold medal in the artistic gymnastics event. The win helped Biles silence her critics, and forget the horrors of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Italy won silver whereas Brazil clinched bronze.

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 4 LIVE Updates: Iga Swiatek into tennis quarter-finals

Iga Swiatek has qualified for the quarter-finals of the women’s singles tennis tournament at Paris Olympics. She becomes the first Polish player to do so, beating China’s Wang Xiyu 6-3, 6-4 in the third round at Roland Garros.

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 4 LIVE Updates: What's next for India in Paris today?

Boxer Preeti Pawar will be in action in India’s final event for the fourth day at the Paris Olympics. She will face Colombia’s Yeni Marcela Arias in the women’s 54 kg round of 16 bout, that is scheduled to begin at 1.20 am.

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 4 LIVE Updates: Nadal-Alcaraz pair into tennis quarter-finals

The men’s doubles tennis pair of Rafael Nadal and Carlos Alcaraz have qualified for the quarter-finals of the 2024 Paris Olympics. They defeat Tallon Griekspoor and Wesley Koolhof of Netherlands 6-4, 7-6, with second set going to a 10-pont tiebreak. The Spanish duo comfortably beat the Dutch 10-2 in the tie-break.

India at Paris Olympics 2024, Day 4 LIVE Updates: Final scorecard of Dhiraj vs Peters

Here’s a quick look at the final scorecard of the men’s individual archery match between Dhiraj Bommadevara and Canada’s Eric Peters:

India at Paris Olympics 2024, Day 4 LIVE Updates: Dhiraj loses a thriller

The scores are level between Dhiraj and Peters at 5-5 and now comes a shoot-out. In the shootout, Dhiraj begins with a 10, although that’s outside of the circle. Eric Peters, however, scores a perfect 10 to better Dhiraj’s efforts and advance to the 1/8 elimination round! Peters beats Dhiraj with a 6-5 overall score.

India at Paris Olympics 2024, Day 4 LIVE Updates: Eric Peters bounces back

Eric Peters bounces back against Dhiraj Bommadevara to make level the overall score 2-2. Bommadevara, however, retains the lead as he goes 5-3 up later on. In the fourth set, both archers score 30 each.

India at Paris Olympics 2024, Day 4 LIVE Updates: Dhiraj takes on Eric Peters in 1/16 elimination round

Right. Dhiraj Bommadevara is in action again. This time in the men’s individual archery 1/16 elimination round against Canada’s Eric Peters. Dhiraj wins the first set 28-27 and takes an overall lead of 2-0.

India at Paris Olympics 2024, Day 4 LIVE Updates: Dhiraj to face Canada's Eric Peters

It has been confirmed that Dhiraj will lock horns against Canada’s Eric Peters in the 1/16 elimination round of the men’s individual archery competition. Dhiraj had beaten Adam Li of Czech Republic in the 1/32 elimination round.

India at Paris Olympics 2024, Day 4 LIVE Updates: Dhiraj into the second round

What a clinical win for Dhiraj Bommadevara against Adam Li of Czech Republic. He outplays the Czech with a 7-1 scoreline to qualify for the second round of men’s individual archery competition in Paris, which is the 1/16 elimination round. That match will take place at 11.25 pm IST today.

India at Paris Olympics 2024, Day 4 LIVE Updates: Dhiraj takes lead in archery

Dhiraj Bommadevera takes a 5-1 lead against Adam Li of Czech Republic. Dhiraj has been impressive today, getting those nines and 10s quite consistently. Dhiraj has overall scores of 29, 29 and 29 in each set compared to Adam’s scores of 29, 28 and 26.

India at Paris Olympics 2024, Day 4 LIVE Updates: Dhiraj Bommadevara's archery match begins

Dhiraj Bommadevara’s individual 1/32 elimination match against Adam Li of Czech Republic is underway. Both Dhiraj and Adam win one set point each after both score 29 in the first set.

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 4 LIVE Updates: Iga Swiatek's match underway

Iga Swiatek, the women’s World No 1 Iga Swiatek is in action in a third round game against Wang Xiyu of China at Roland Garros. Swiatek is currently leading the first set 2-1.

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 4 LIVE Updates: Nadal and Alcaraz in action

In men’s doubles tennis, Spain’s Rafael Nadal and Carlos Alcaraz are in action in the second round of the Paris Olympics. They are taking on Dutch pair of Tallon Griekspoor and Wesley Koolhof. The Spaniards took the fist set 6-4 but are behind 3-4 in the second set.

India at Paris Olympics 2024, Day 4 LIVE Updates: What next for India today in Paris?

Next up for India at the Olympics is archery. Dhiraj Bommadevara, who ffinished fourth in the archery ranking round, takes on Adam Li of Czech Republic in the Men’s Individual 1/32 Elimination round. The match is scheduled to begin at 10.46 pm IST.

India at Paris Olympics 2024, Day 4 LIVE Updates: A look at final scores for Jaismine vs Petecio bout

Let’s now take a look at the final scores in detail from Jaismine Lamboria’s last 32 bout against Nesthy Petecio of Philippines, which the Indian lost by unanimous decision.

India at Paris Olympics 2024, Day 4 LIVE Updates: Jaismine Lamboria knocked out

India’s Jaismine Lamboria has been knocked out of the boxing tournament at Paris Olympics. She loses to Nesthy Petecio of Philippines in the round of 32 bout in the Women’s Featherweight category, with the Filipino winning the fight on the basis of points.

India at Paris Olympics 2024, Day 4 LIVE Updates: Perfect start for Nesthy

Nesthy Petecio dominates the second round against as she gets all 10s against Jaismine, who gets 9s from all judges. Jaismine is clearly on a disadvantage.

India at Paris Olympics 2024, Day 4 LIVE Updates: Jaismine loses first round of bout in women's boxing

Jaismine Lomboria is on the backfoot after she loses the first round of her bout against Nesthy Petecio. She loses the first round of the bout with a 4-1 margin.

India at Paris Olympics 2024, Day 4 LIVE Updates: Jasmine vs Petecio bout begins

Right. The women’s featherweight round of 32 bout between India’s Jaismine Lomboria and Philippines’ Nesthy Petecio is underway. Jaismine is in the red corner whereas her opponent is in the blue corner.

India at Paris Olympics 2024, Day 4 LIVE Updates: Jaismine Lomboria in action soon

Indian boxer Jaismine Lomboria will be in action soon in the Women’s Featherweight round of 32 contest. She will face Nesthy Petecio of Philippines in the round of 32 bout. Earlier, Amit Panghal was in action in men’s boxing, but bowed out after a defeat to Zambia’s Patrick Chinyemba.

India at Paris Olympics 2024, Day 4 LIVE Updates: Neeraj Chopra checks in at Games Village

Indian javelin thrower and reigning Olympic gold medallist Neeraj Chopra checked in at the athletes’ Games Village on Tuesday. He took to ‘X’ to announce his arrival in Paris.

India at Paris Olympics 2024, Day 4 LIVE Updates: What next for India in Paris today?

Next up for India is women’s boxing. Jaismine Lomboria will lock horns against Nesthy Petecio of Philippines in the Women’s Featherweight round of 32 bout. The match is scheduled to begin at 9.24 pm IST.

India at Paris Olympics 2024, Day 4 LIVE Updates: India beat Ireland in hockey

In case you missed it, captain Harmanpreet Singh scored two goals as India defeated Ireland in men’s hockey Pool B match of the Paris Olympics. India now have seven points from three matches, with two wins and a draw. Click here to read the match report.