Olympics 2020: India’s schedule on 24 July

The Tokyo Olympics started on 23 July amid the threat of Coronavirus. After a long wait of a year, there was a opening ceremony at the National Stadium. In view of the pandemic, small parties from all countries participated in the march past, in which only 18 players from India were involved.

127 atheletes from India

Although the Olympic Games are held every year in 4 years, but due to Coronavirus, the Tokyo Olympics was postponed by a year. The 17-day long Tokyo Olympics will feature 339 events from 33 different sports. In which 127 players from India will participate in a total of 84 medal events.

Indian players  in action on Day 2 of Olympics 2020

On the second day of Tokyo Olympics i.e. July 24, many events for Indian sports fans, in which many veteran players will try their hand for medals. In archery, Deepika Kumari is in competition with Apurvi Chandela and Elavenil Valarivan in shooting. Apart from this, Hockey India will compete with New Zealand.

All Events of 24th July (Indian Time)

Archery

6:00 am – Deepika Kumari and Praveen Jadhav vs. Chia-Ann Lin and Chih-Chun Tang (Chinese Taipei) in mixed team last eight match

Indian archers Deepika Kumari and Pravin Jadhav defeated Chinese Taipei pair of Lin Chia An and Tang Chin Chun by 5-3 to reach the quarterfinals of the mixed doubles team event of the Tokyo Olympics.

12:55 pm – Bronze medal match

13:15 pm – Gold Medal Match

Badminton

8:50 am – Satwiksairaj Rankireddy-Chirag Shetty vs Yang Lee-Chi Lin Wang (Chinese Taipei) in Men’s Doubles Group A match

9:30 am – B Sai Praneeth vs Misha Zilberman (Israel) in Men’s Singles Group D match

Boxing

Vikas Krishan vs Mensah Okazawa in the last 32 match of 69kg (Japan)

Hockey

6:30 am – India vs New Zealand in men’s Pool A match

5:15 am – India vs Netherlands in Women’s Pool A match

Judo

Beginning at 7:30 am

Match 10 of the day: Sushila Devi Likambam vs Eva Cernowicz (Hungary) in the last 32 match of the women’s 48kg category

Rowing

Morning: 7:30 am – Arjun Lal Jatt and Arvind Singh in the second heat of the men’s lightweight double sculls
Shooting

05:00 am: Apurvi Chandela and Elavenil Valarivan (both eliminated in qualification round) in women’s 10m air rifle qualification

07:15 am: Women’s 10m air rifle final

09:30 am: Abhishek Verma and Saurabh Chaudhary in men’s 10m air rifle qualification

12 noon: Men’s 10m air rifle final

Table tennis

8:30 am: Achanta Sharath Kamal and Manika Batra vs Yun Ju Lin and Ching Cheng (Chinese Taipei) in a mixed doubles pre-quarterfinal match

12:15 pm: Manika Batra vs Tin Tin Ho (Great Britain) in women’s singles first round

01:00 pm: Sutirtha Mukherjee vs Linda Bergström (Sweden) in women’s singles first round

Tennis

starting at 7:30 am

Match of the day: Sumit Nagal vs Denis Istomin (Uzbekistan) in Men’s singles first round match

Weightlifting

Morning: 10:20 am: Mirabai Chanu in women’s 49kg category