Paris Olympics: India to face Belgium in a group B Hockey match today

In the Paris Olympics, Shooter Swapnil Kusale will make a bid for India’s third medal in Men’s 50 meter rifle 3 Positions shooting competition today, while two-time World Champion Pugilist Nikhat Zareen will hope to inch closer to the medal in Women’s 50kg Boxing.

Kusale, who qualified for the final by finishing seventh in the Men’s 50m Rifle 3-Positions qualifying event, will be aiming at 1 pm IST at the shooting range in Chateauroux, around 330 km from Paris.

Indian athletes will be in action early morning in the French capital today. The men’s 20 km race walk features Paramjit Singh Bisth, Akshdeep singh and Vikash



Singh. 

Meanwhile, in the women’s 20 km walk, Priyanka will be India’s lone challenger. In Archery, Pravin Jadhav will clash with China’s Wenchao Kao in the Men’s Individual elimination round Swapnil Kusale is our country’s big hope today in the 50m rifle Mens final. In Hockey, India face Belgium in a group B match.

In Badminton, strong medal contenders Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty will battle it out against Malaysia’s A Chia and W Soh while an all-Indian men’s singles round of 16 between HS Prannoy and Lakshya Sen is also lined up in today’s schedule.