Chinappa, though, has a huge task on hand, as she will have to get past second seed Joelle King of New Zealand in order to book a spot in the semifinals.
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The Tall Blacks began their campaign with an easy 110-65 win over Nigeria – the flawless warm-up ahead of a possible gold medal preview against Australia tonight. England, on nine, are in second.
The world no. 2 Kidambi Srikanth sealed India’s win after thrashing Georges Julien Paul 21-12, 21-14 in the men’s singles tie.
Black added to the gold medal she won in Friday night’s team event with an outstanding performance across all four apparatus, scoring 54.20 to edge out Godwin (53.80) and English teenager Alice Kinsella (53.15). “I was just hoping he would drop the bar, luckily he did”.
The last encounter between the two teams was at the Asia Cup in Bangladesh past year where India came up tops.
“I was frustrated by how I couldn’t get up there”. “Players are more disappointed than me”. The relay will make its Olympic debut as an official sport in the 2020 Tokyo Games.
England won both para triathlon events, with Jade Jones winning the women’s race and Joseph Townsend winning the men’s gold.
Papua New Guinea’s Loa Dika Toua won the silver medal after a lift of 182kg, while the bronze went to Rachel Leblanc-Bazinet of Canada who did 181kg.
The bronze medal went to Canada’s Rachel-LeBlanc-Bazinet (81kg+100kg).
“This is my home crowd. I felt like I let them down a little bit at the beginning there”, she said. “I think the video umpire was watching something else”, Rasquinha, who is among the panelists for SPN Sports India, was quoted as saying by The Field.
A desperate Pakistan struck back late in the match.
There’s always underlying emotion in Indo-Pak encounters, and there was no lack of tension in this.
With India seemingly coasting to a narrow win, Pakistan snatched victory from the jaws of defeat with a last minute penalty corner conversion. Whereas Roelant Oltmans, Pakistan coach felt that the team had improved.
It is his 2nd consecutive gold medal at Games, as he secured the gold in Glasgow in 2014, as well.
Wilson, an Olympic bronze medalist on the horizontal bar, did just enough to win with a combined 84.950.
“I came here with the ambition of breaking my own record and I am glad I made it happen”, Mirabai Chanu said.
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In the second game, the former World No.1 Indian found back her groove to head to the break with a 11-5 lead before extending it further to 16-5 and eventually clinch it in her favour in 36 minutes.
