Tokyo Olympics: India makes shiny begin with Mirabai Chanu silver medal, males’s hockey crew victory on Day 1

India made a shiny begin to their Olympic marketing campaign at Tokyo 2020 on Saturday due to Mirabai Chanu’s a medal-winning efficiency in weightlifting and the lads’s hockey crew victory of their opening match on Day 1 of the Summer Games in Japan.

Mirabai Chanu turned the primary Indian to win a medal on the primary day of the Olympics when she clinched the silver medal within the ladies’s weightlifting 49kg occasion to bag her maiden prize on the quadrennial occasion.Mirabai Chanu, India’s solely athlete in weightlifting, ended the nation’s lengthy await an Olympic medal in weightlifting as she turned the second athlete after Karnam Malleswari to realize the feat. Malleswari had picked up the bronze medal on the 2000 Sydney Olympics.TOKYO 2020: FULL COVERAGEThe diminutive iron woman from Manipur lifted a complete of 202kg (87kg+115kg) to raised Malleswari’s efficiency greater than twenty years in the past. With this effort, Mirabai additionally exorcised the ghosts of the 2016 Games the place she had didn’t log a single official elevate, leaving her shattered.The day additionally noticed the Indian males’s hockey crew start their marketing campaign with a 3-2 win over New Zealand of their first match of the Tokyo Olympics. Table tennis celebrity Manika Batra and Sutirtha Sutirtha Mukherjee additionally made the proper begins with wins of their respective ladies’s singles matches.But there have been a number of disappointments in retailer as effectively for India as top-medal contender Vikas Krishan crashed out within the first day of the boxing occasions whereas the ladies’s hockey crew suffered a crushing defeat towards the Netherlands to spherical off the day for the nation.MIRABAI CHANU CREATES HISTORY Reuters PhotographMirabai Chanu put a smile on the faces of over a billion Indians when she turned the primary athlete to win a silver medal in weightlifting from the nation.The Commonwealth Games gold-medallist’s finest elevate in snatch was 87kg and the Indian weightlifter efficiently lifted 115kg in clear and jerk to clinch the silver medal.China’s Zhihui Hou gained the gold medal within the ladies’s 49-kg weightlifting on the Tokyo Olympics, lifting a complete of 210 kg, whereas Indonesia’s Windy Cantika Aisah gained the bronze medal.INDIAN HOCKEY TEAM THUMPS NEW ZEALANDGoals from vice-captain Harmanpreet Singh, Rupinder Pal Singh and a succession of huge saves from PR Sreejesh in the direction of the top of the primary quarter helped the Indian males’s hockey crew safe a 3-2 win over New Zealand of their first match of the Tokyo Olympics.All three of India’s objectives got here from penalty corners with Harmanpreet scoring twice (twenty sixth and thirty third minutes) and Rupinder hitting the goal as soon as within the tenth minute. AP PhotoFor New Zealand, Kane Russell (sixth minute) and Stephen Jenness (forty third minute) scored the objectives. India will subsequent play mighty Australia on Sunday.The Indian ladies’s crew nonetheless, could not repeat the identical as they crashed to a 5-1 defeat towards the Netherlands of their Pool A opener.ARCHERS AND SHOOTERS DISAPPOINTShooter Saurabh Chaudhary was one of many greatest medal hopes for India on Day 1 together with Mirabai Chanu and Vikas Krishan however the world No. 2 didn’t dwell as much as expectations as he completed seventh within the males’s 10m air pistol ultimate.Another large heartbreak in taking pictures got here when World No. 1 Elavenil Valarivan and world-record holder Apurvi Chandela completed effectively outdoors the qualifying spots within the Women’s 10m Air Rifle Qualification occasion.Elavenial Valarivan completed sixteenth within the 50-woman qualification subject with a rating of 626.5 whereas senior shooter Apurvi Chandela had an off-day as she completed thirty sixth with a ultimate rating of 621.9.Meanwhile, India’s marketing campaign in combined crew archery occasion on the Tokyo Olympics got here to an finish on Saturday as Deepika Kumari and Pravin Jadhav misplaced 2-6 to Korea’s An San and Kim Je Deok. With combined archery making its debut on the Olympics this 12 months, Deepika and Jadhav had been the primary ever Indian pair to take part within the occasion.MIXED DAY IN TABLE TENNIS AP PhotoStar India paddler Manika Batra stormed into the second spherical of ladies’s singles class after a 4-0 (11-7, 11-6, 12-10, 11-9) win over Great Britain’s Tin-Tin Ho in her ladies’s singles opening match however could not progress additional within the combined doubles together with her associate Achanta Sharath Kamal because the twelfth seeds had been blown away within the Round of 16 match by World No. 1 pairing of Lin Yun Ju and Cheng I Ching on Saturday.98th-ranked Sutirtha made a powerful impression on her Olympics debut with a come from behind 4-3 win towards 78th-ranked Linda Bergstrom of Sweden.SUMIT NAGAL MAKES HISTORY Reuters PhotoTennis star Sumit Nagal, a last-minute entry into the Olympics because of the varied withdrawals within the males’s singles class, additionally made historical past on Saturday as he beat Uzbekistan’s Dennis Istomin 6-4, 6-7 (6), 6-4 to turn out to be the primary Indian to win a singles match on the Olympics since Leander Paes’ bronze-medal effort on the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.DEFEAT IN JUDOIndia’s Shushila Devi Likmabam’s marketing campaign on the Tokyo Olympics ended within the first spherical with a 10-0 defeat to Hungarian veteran Eva Csernoviczki in ladies’s 48kg judo on Saturday. Her defeat introduced an finish to India’s problem in judo at Tokyo 2020.VIKAS KRISHAN BOWS OUT IN OPENERA lot was anticipated of star boxer Vikas Krishan as he started his marketing campaign within the Tokyo Olympics 2020 on Saturday however the 29-year-old’s marketing campaign got here to a heartbreaking finish within the first spherical after he misplaced to Japan’s Sewonrets Quincy Mensah Okazawa within the males’s welterweight class.