The scoreline at the end of the women's hockey match was 4-3 and it was the Great Britain team that bagged the bronze medal.
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Friday was a relatively good day for India at the Tokyo Olympics, despite not managing to win a medal on the day. Several of the Indian athletes performed exceptionally well and can be proud of their performances. The biggest game on the day was the women’s hockey bronze medal match between India and Great Britain. There was also wrestler Bajrang Punia in action who went quite a long way and performed reasonably well throughout his bouts on the day. The men’s relay team also displayed a very impressive performance while golfer Aditi Ashok kept her calm and delivered yet another consistent performance.
Golfer Aditi Ashok started drawing a lot of eyeballs after two days of brilliant golfing performances. Once again, Aditi showed just how good she really is in the women’s individual stroke play event. It was round 3 of the event and she retained her spot at the second position at the end of the day’s play. She seems to be in serious contention for a medal but there are still two more rounds yet to be played. For Diksha Dagar, it was a little disappointing. She is currently at 51st after three rounds of play.
The India women’s hockey team was in action on the day in what was possibly the most anticipated match. It was the bronze medal match against Great Britain. Unfortunately, the match went in favor of the British team but the Indian team put up a very good fight. The scoreline at the end of the match was 4-3 and it was the GB team that bagged the bronze medal. However, the Indian team can be extremly proud of their overall achievement at The Games this year.
Bajrang Punia was involved in the men’s 65kg freestyle event. He defeated Ernazar Akmataliev of Kyrgyzstan in his first match to qualify for the 1/4 final round. There, Punia defeated Iranian wrestler Morteza Ghiasi Cheka by a very tight margin. Next was the semi-final bout and it was here that Punia was beaten. He lost 12-5 to Azerbaijan grappler Haji Aliyev. The Indian will fight for the bronze medal on Saturday.
Seema Bisla was also in action in the women’s 50kg freestyle event. Bisla was defeated by Turkish grappler Sarra Hamdi in the 1/8 final stage and was eliminated from the competition. The match had ended 3-1 in Hamdi’s favor.
There was a lot of action on the day for India in athletics as well. The first was the men’s 50km race walk final. Gurpreet Singh participated in that event but could not finish the whole thing. Next up was the women’s 20km race walk final. Priyanka Goswami fared quite well in the event as she managed to finish in 17th place. Bhawna Jat also had a decent showing as she managed to finish in 32nd place.
The final action of the day was the men’s 4x400m relay heat. The relay team consisted of Amoj Jacob, Arokia Rajiv, Nirmal Tom Noah and Muhammed Anas Yahiya. The team displayed a brilliant performance as they finished fourth in the heat. The time of 3:00.25 minutes set a new Asian record as well. However, they just marginally failed to qualify for the final.
There were also quite a few medal matches that were played on the day. The most important one possibly was the final of the women’s football event. Canada beat Sweden 3-2 on penalties to claim the top prize. The match had ended 1-1 after regulation time. On the men’s side, Mexico won the bronze medal after they beat hosts Japan 3-1. Athletics saw the final of both the men’s and women’s 4x100m relay events on the day as well. Italy took the gold medal in the men’s event while Great Britain and Canada won silver and bronze respectively. In the women’s event, Jamaica won the gold medal while the silver was won by the US. Great Britain took the bronze.
