Rio-2016 Olympics: Here's How India Performed

The following is the performance of Indian contingent at the Rio Olympics:
BADMINTON:

• P V Sindhu secured a silver medal after losing to Carolina Marin in the women’s singles final.

• Saina Nehwal failed to progress beyond the league stage in women’s singles.

• Kidambi Srikanth lost in the men’s singles quarterfinals against Lin Dan.

• Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa failed to advance to the knock-out stage of women’s doubles.

• Men’s doubles pair of Manu Attri and B Sumeeth Reddy also failed to make the knock-out stage.

WRESTLING:

• Sakshi Malik won bronze in women’s 58kg freestyle.

• Vinesh Phogat retired after suffering an injury in the quarterfinal of women’s 48kg.

• Babita Kumari lost in the pre-quarterfinal round of the women’s 53kg freestyle.

• London Olympics bronze medallist Yogeshwar Dutt lost in qualification round of men’s 65kg freestyle.

• Sandeep Tomar lost his pre-quarterfinal bout of men’s 57kg freestyle.

• In Greco-Roman, both Ravinder Khatri and Hardeep Singh lost in the pre-quarterfinals of 85kg and 98kg, respectively.

• Narsingh Yadav was ruled out from representing India in men’s 74kg freestyle category after he was slapped with a four-year ban by Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) for flunking a dope test after WADA challenged the clean chit given to him by the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA).

GYMNASTICS:

• Dipa Karmakar finished fourth in Vaults final.

TENNIS:

• Mixed Doubles: Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna lost the bronze medal play-off to Radek Stepanek and Lucie Hradecka of Czech Republic.

• Men’s doubles: Leander Paes and Rohan Bopanna lost in the first round to Polish duo of Marcin Matkowski and Lukasz Kubot.

• Women’s double: Sania Mirza and Prarthana Thombare lost in the first round to Chinese pair of Shuai Zhang and Shuai Peng.

SHOOTING:

• 10m Air Rifle (Men): Abhinav Bindra finished 4th in the finals, while Gagan Narang failed to qualify.

• 10m Air Pistol (Men): Jitu Rai finished eighth in the finals, while Gurpreet Singh failed to qualify for the finals.

• 50m Pistol (Men): Jitu Rai and Prakash Nanjappa failed to qualify for the finals.

• 50m Rifle Prone: Gagan Narang and Chain Singh failed to qualify for finals.

• Men’s Trap: Manavjit Singh Sandhu and Kynan Chenai failed to qualify for finals.

• 25m rapid fire pistol (Men): Gurpreet Singh failed to qualify for finals.

• Skeet: Mairaj Ahmed Khan failed to qualify for finals.

• 10m Air Rifle (Women): Apurvi Chandela and Ayonika Paul failed to qualify for the finals.

• 10m Air Pistol & 25m pistol (Women): Heena Sidhu failed to qualify for both 10m and 25m finals.

ATHLETICS:

• Women’s 3000m steeplechase: Lalita Babar finished 10th in finals. But Sudha Singh failed to qualify for the finals.

• Women’s 100m: Dutee Chand failed to qualify for finals.

• Women’s 200m: Srabani Nanda failed to qualify for finals.

• Women’s 400m: Nirmala Sheoran failed to qualify for finals.

• Women’s 800m: Tintu Luka failed to qualify for the semifinals.

• Women’s Shot Put: Manpreet Kaur failed to qualify for finals.

• Women’s Discus: Seema Punia failed to qualify for finals.

• Women’s 20km Walk: Khushbir Kaur finished 54th, while Sapana Punia ‘did not finish’ the race.

• Women’s 4x400m Relay: Indian team finished seventh in Heat 2 and overall 13th and failed to qualify for the finals.

• Men’s 4x400m Relay: Indian team disqualified.

• Men’s Discus Throw: Vikas Gowda failed to qualify for the finals after finishing 28th in the qualification round.

• Men’s 800m Round 1: Jinson Johnson failed to qualify for the finals.

• Men’s 400m: Muhammad Anas Yahiya failed to qualify for the finals.

• Men’s Long Jump: Ankit Sharma failed to qualify for the finals.

• Men’s Triple Jump: Ranjith Maheshwary failed to qualify for the finals.

• Men’s 20km race walk: Gurmeet Singh, Manish Singh Rawat and Ganapathi Krishnan failed to qualify.

• Men’s 50km Walk: Sandeep Kumar finished 35th.

• Men’s Marathon: Gopi T finished 25th and Kheta Ra

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