India Day 1 schedule, Paris Olympics 2024: Indian shooters and men's hockey team to compete on 27 July

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India Day 1 schedule, Paris Olympics 2024 27 July: The Summer Games 2024 got off to a grand start with an extravagant opening ceremony and it will be followed with a lot of sporting action on Day 1 which will be headlined by Indian shooters, shuttlers and the men’s hockey team. Check India’s full schedule for Day 1. read more

 Indian shooters and men's hockey team to compete on 27 July

India's shooters that include Elavenil Valarivan and badminton stars including Lakshya Sen will be in action on Day 1 of the Paris Olympics on Saturday. PTI

India’s shooters, shuttlers and the men’s hockey team will be in action on Day 1 of the 2024 Paris Olympics on Saturday. As far as shooting events are concerned, the 10m Air Rifle Mixed team qualification and medal events will take place on the same day (Saturday), unlike the Tokyo Olympics when both the events were held on separate days.

In the 10m Air Rifle mixed team event, India will pin their hopes on the Ramita Jindal-Arjun Babuta pair and the Elavenil Valarivan-Sandeep Singh pair in Paris. The teams that finish in the top four of the qualification stage then qualify for the medal matches that will be held later on the same day.

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The pairs who finish first and second will face off in the gold medal match, whereas the pairs who finish third and fourth will lock horns in the bronze medal match. The 10m air pistol qualification events are also scheduled for Saturday and all eyes will be on Manu Bhaker, Sarabjot Singh and Arjun Singh Cheema in these events.

The India men’s hockey team will lock horns against New Zealand in their first group stage match later on Saturday. The badminton group stage round begins on Saturday, with Lakshya Sen, Ashwini Ponnappa-Tanisha Castro pair and the Satwiksairaj Rankireddy-Chirag Shetty pairs in action.

Let’s now take a look at the complete India schedule for Day 1 of the Paris Olympics (All times IST):

Shooting

10m Air Rifle Mixed Team Qualification —Sandeep-Elavenil and Arjun-Ramita —12.30 pm

10m Air Rifle Mixed Team gold medal and bronze medal matches — 2 pm

10m Air Pistol Men’s Qualification —Arjun Singh Cheema and Sarabjot Singh — 2pm

10m Air Pistol Women’s Qualification —Manu Bhaker and Rhythm Sangwan — 4 pm

Hockey

Men’s hockey Pool B match — India vs New Zealand — 9 pm

Boxing

Women’s 54kg prelims round of 32 — Preethi Pawar vs Thi Kim Ah Vo — 12.02 am (28 July)

Badminton

Men’s singles, Group L match —Lakshya Sen vs Kevin Cordon (Approximately 7.10 pm)

Men’s doubles, Group C match —Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty vs Lucas Corvee and Ronan Labar (Approximately 8 pm)

Women’s doubles, Group C match —Ashwini Ponnappa and Tanisha Crasto vs Kim So Yeong and Kong Hee Yong (Approximately 11.50 pm)

Tennis

Men’s doubles first round —Rohan Bopanna and N Sriram Balaji vs Edouard Roger-Vasselin and Fabien Reboul (Approximately 4.30 pm)

Table tennis

Men’s singles preliminary round  —Harmeet Desai vs Zaid Abo Yaman —7.15 pm

Rowing

Men’s Singles Sculls Heats —Balraj Panwar (Heat 1 at 12.30 pm)

How can I watch the sporting events of the 2024 Paris Olympics?

Fans can watch the sporting events of the 2024 Paris Olympics across various Sports18 TV channels. As far as LIVE streaming is concerned, fans can watch the Olympics for free on the JioCinema mobile app and website.

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