Tokyo Olympics 2020 Highlights Day 15: Neeraj Chopra wins a historic gold medal in men's javelin; Bajrang bags bronze
Tokyo Olympics 2020 Highlights Day 15: Neeraj Chopra bagged a historic gold medal in the men's javelin throw event. Wrestler Bajrang Punia won India its sixth medal by winning bronze. Earlier today, Aditi Ashok missed out on a medal by a whisker by finishing 4th in golf.
Tokyo Olympics 2020 Highlights Day 15: Javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra ended India's campaign at Tokyo 2020 by bagging a gold medal in the men's javelin throw event. Aditi Ashok's stunning campaign at the Tokyo Olympics ended unfortunately without a medal as she finished just below the top three spots despite being in medal contention for most of the event. Wrestler Bajrang Punia won India its sixth medal by winning bronze in the men's freestyle 65kg event. ....Read More
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Like all good things, this comes to an end as well
Ladies and gentlemen, like all good things, the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games have come to an end as well. From August 23 to July 7, you have been with us from 5 in the morning to 7-7:30 in the evening. Thank you for tuning in over the last two weeks and let's celebrate living through India's best-ever Olympic campaign. Yes, you have witnessed history unfold before your very eyes and it was an absolute pleasure for my team and I to bring you all the action from the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
AUGUST 7, 2021! REMEMBER THE DATE
August 11, 2008: Abhinav Bindra wins India's first-ever Olympic Individual gold medal.
August 8, 2021: Neeraj Chopra bags the first-ever athletics gold for India and becomes India's second individual gold medallist
NATIONAL ANTHEM OF INDIA
I have tears in my eyes like a lot of you out there. As the camera zooms in on Neeraj Chopra, and tears roll down my eyes. To see the Tricolour higher than other flags at the ceremony is a sight we all crave to live. And thanks to Neeraj Chopra, it's a reality. First Indian to win gold at Tokyo 2020.
23 years of age. he's got the skill, speed and technique.
He will be back.
Thank you Neeraj Chopra.
MEDAL CEREMONY
38-year-old Czech, World Champion of 2013,Vitezslav Vesely of Czech Republic is awarded the bronze
Jakub Vadlejch of Czech Republic is awarded the silver
AND FINALLY, THE WINNER! THE OLYMPIC CHAMPION! NEERAJ CHOPRA. He does the namaste greeting at the podium.
How did it all start for Neeraj Chopra in Tokyo?
It all began three days earlier on August 4 when Neeraj Chopra, quite literally, arrived, threw 86.65m, packed his bags left because he shattered the qualification mark of 83.50m in his first throw.
Not just that, he topped the qualification round across Groups A and B
And then, he threw 87.03 in R1 and then followed it up with a throw of 87.58m in round 2
A recap of all of Neeraj's attempts
6th attempt: 84.24m
5th attempt: Foul throw
4th attempt: Foul
3rd attempt: 76.79m
2nd attempt: 87.58m
1st attempt: 87.03m
LIST OF INDIA'S MEDALS AT TOKYO 2020
Tokyo 2020 medal winners for India
Gold - Neeraj Chopra (Men's Javelin Throw)
Silver - Mirabai Chanu (Weightlifting: Women's 49kg )
Silver - Ravi Kumar Dahiya (Wrestling: Men's 57kg freestyle)
Bronze - Lovlina Borgohain (Boxing: Women's Welterweight)
Bronze - PV Sindhu (Badminton: Women's singles)
Bronze - Men's Hockey Team
For the first time since Beijing 2008
For the first time since Beijing 2008, the Indian national anthem will be played at the medal ceremony. THIS IS HUGE!
7 MEDALS BEST EVER HAUL FOR INDIA
India has now notched its best-ever haul at the Olympics with a seventh medal. Earlier, the nation had matched its best medal haul at a single Olympic Games after wrestler Bajrang Punia gave India its 6th medal of the campaign, which put it on par with the showing at the 2012 London Olympics.
WHAT THE VICTORY MEANS
Neeraj Chopra won a historic gold medal in men's javelin throw to make the Tokyo 2020 Games India's best ever Olympics campaign. Chopra scripted history on Saturday by becoming independent India's first athlete to win a medal in the track and field discipline. English-Indian athlete Norman Pritchard had won two silver medals in the 1900 Games, while representing India, which was then a British colony.
THIS IS REAL! NEERAJ CHOPRA HAS WON GOLD!
I AM NOT KIDDING! YOU ARE NO DREAMING! THIS IS REAL! ALL OF THIS IS REAL! NEERAJ CHOPRA HAS WON AN INDIVIDUAL GOLD MEDAL
ROUND 6- THE FINAL ROUND
Can the Indian hang on?
1) Lassi Etelatalo of Finland throws 83.05m (HE FINISHES 8TH)
2) Andrian Mardare of Moldova throws 81.09m (HE FINISHES 7TH)
3) Aliaksei Katkavets of Belarus throws a foul throw (HE FINISHES 6TH)
4) Arshad Nadeem of Pakistan throws a foul throws (HE FINISHES 5TH)
5) Julian Weber of Germany throws 75.72 (HE FINISHES 4TH)
6) Vitezslav Vesely of Czech Republic throws a foul throw (HE FINISHES WITH THE BRONZE)
7) Jakub Vadlejch of Czech Republic throws a foul throw (HE FINISHES WITH THE SILVER)
8) Neeraj Chopra of India throws WITH A THROW OF 84.24m (HE WINS GOLD)
ROUND 5- FOUL THROW BUT NEERAJ LEADS
1) Andrian Mardare of Moldova throws 83.30m
2) Lassi Etelatalo of Finland throws 79.99m
3) Aliaksei Katkavets of Belarus throws a foul throw
4) Jakub Vadlejch of Czech Republic throws 86.67m (Season Best)
5) Arshad Nadeem of Pakistan throws 81.98m
6) Julian Weber throws 85.15m
7) Vitezslav Vesely of Czech Republic throws 84.98m
8) Neeraj Chopra of India throws a foul throw
NEERAJ CHOPRA'S QUICK RECAP
Neeraj Chopra:
4th attempt: Foul
3rd attempt: 76.79m
2nd attempt: 87.58m
1st attempt: 87.03m
After 4 rounds, Neeraj leadS. 2 THROWS LEFT
ROUND 4- NEERAJ CHOPRA LEADS
1) Andrian Mardare of Moldova throws 81.90m
2) Lassi Etelatalo of Finland throws 79.20m
3) Aliaksei Katkavets of Belarus throws 79.24m
4) Jakub Vadlejch of Czech Republic throws 82.86m
5) Arshad Nadeem of Pakistan throws 82.91m
6) Julian Weber of Germany 83.10m throws
7) Vitezslav Vesely of Czech Republic throws a foul throw
8) Neeraj Chopra of India throws a foul throw
Round 4
JOHANNES VETTER IS KNOCKED OUT! Is this the upset of the entire Olympics' Athletic event? Neeraj Chopra is only getting closer to that historic gold medal. FOLKS, STAY WHERE YOU ARE! STAY ROOTED! DO NOT MOVE! NEERAJ COULD SCRIPT HISTORY!
Now, the order reverses. Which means the leader, Neeraj, will throw last
Knocked out: Kim AMB of Sweden, Alexandru Mihaita Novac of Romania, Pavel Mialeshka of Belaru and Johannes Vetter of Germany are knocked out
ROUND 3- NEERAJ CHOPRA STILL LEADS , VETTER KNOCKED OUT
1) Andrian Mardare of Moldova throws 82.84m
2) Neeraj Chopra of India throws 76.69m
3) Kim AMB of Sweden throws 79.69m
4) Alexandru Mihaita Novac of Romania throws a foul throw
5) Vitezslav Vesely of Czech Republic throws 85.44m (Season Best)
6) Julian Weber of Germany throws 78.00m
7) Lassi Etelatalo of Finland throws 83.28m
8) Johannes Vetter of Germany throws a foul throw
9) Arshad Nadeem of Pakistan throws 84.62m
10) Pavel Mialeshka of Belarus throws 78.13m
11) Jakub Vadlejch of Czech Republic throws a foul throw
12) Aliaksei Katkavets of Belarus throws 82.82m
ROUND 2- NEERAJ CHOPRA STILL LEADS
1) Andrian Mardare of Moldova throws 81.73m
2) Neeraj Chopra of India throws 87.58m
3) Kim AMB of Sweden throws 78.31m
4) Alexandru Mihaita Novac of Romania throws 79.29m
5) Vitezslav Vesely of Czech Republic throws 80.30m
6) Julian Weber of Germany throws 77.90m
7) Lassi Etelatalo of Finland throws 76.59m
8) Johannes Vetter of Germany throws a foul throw
9) Arshad Nadeem of Pakistan throws a foul throw
10) Pavel Mialeshka of Belarus throws 79.34m
11) Jakub Vadlejch of Czech Republic throws a foul throw
12) Aliaksei Katkavets of Belarus throws 81.03m
ROUND 1- NEERAJ LEADS AFTER ROUND 1
1) Andrian Mardare of Moldova throws 81.16m
2) Neeraj Chopra of India throws 87.03m
3) Kim AMB of Sweden throws 77.22m
4) Alexandru Mihaita Novac of Romania throws 77.03m
5) Vitezslav Vesely of Czech Republic throws 79.73m
6) Julian Weber of Germany throws 85.30m (Season best)
7) Lassi Etelatalo of Finland throws 78.43m
8) Johannes Vetter of Germany throws 82.52m
9) Arshad Nadeem of Pakistan throws 82.40m
10) Pavel Mialeshka of Belarus throws 82.28
11) Jakub Vadlejch of Czech Republic throws 83.98
12) Aliaksei Katkavets of Belarus throws 82.49
JAVELIN FINAL
India's Neeraj Chopra in focus as the Javelin throw final begins. Here's the start order:
1) Andrian Mardare of Moldova
2) Neeraj Chopra of India
3) Kim AMB of of Sweden
4) Alexandru Mihaita Novac of Romania
5) Vitezslav Vesely of Czech Republic
6) Julian Weber of Germany
7) Lassi Etelatalo of Finland
8) Johannes Vetter of Germany
9) Nadeem Arshad of Pakistan
10) Pavel Mialeshka of Belarus
11) Jakub Vadlejch of Czech Republic
12) Aliaksei Katkavets of Belarus
6TH MEDAL FOR INDIA
India has now equalled its best-ever haul at the Olympics. Neeraj Chopra, over to you now!
IT'S OFFICIAL!
WINNER ON POINTS, BAJRANG PUNIA WINS THE BRONZE MEDAL WITH AN 8-0 WIN
MATCH BEGINS! 6 MINUTES TO TOP-CLASS ACTION
PERIOD 1: Both wrestlers feel each other out first before Punia pushes Daulat to the edge of the circle. They go into the typical lock again. 1 minute gone, no points won yet.
Daulat then pushes Punia to the edge of the circle but the Indian turns and then evades danger.
The first point to the Indian
Bajrang going forward and being proactive and he sends Daulet out. 2-0 to the Indian as the first period comes to an end.
PERIOD 2: Daulet shows great defence as he prevents Bajrang from working from the back and win two points. But this lead can diminish in a second.
Daulet is just defending is depending on the counter but Bajrang attacks and he pins him down with a brilliant move. BAJRANG LEADS 4-0
1 minute to go and once again, Punia applies pressure to the leg and then rolls Daulet and pins him for two more points. 6-0
8-0 TWO MORE POINTS
Out come the wrestlers
Bajrang Punia and Daulet Niyazbekov of Kazakhstan have walked out. It's show time!
BAJRANG'S OPPONENT DECIDED
Bajrang Punia will face Daulet Niyazbekov of Kazakhstan in the bronze medal match!
COMING UP NEXT
Bajrang Punia's bronze medal bout in the freestyle 65kg is up next at 3:55pm.
BOXING UPDATE
Britain's Galal Yafai said that he will enjoy light-hearted bragging rights over his boxing brothers after defeating Carlo Paalam to win flyweight Olympic gold on Saturday.
The 28-year-old Yafai, a former car-factory worker, won on split points in an enthralling contest against the Filipino to earn Britain's first boxing gold in Tokyo.
There was meanwhile a shock in the men's middleweight final after Brazil's Hebert Sousa produced a stunning third-round knockout to win gold.
Yafai's older brothers, Kal and Gamal, are both established professionals. But neither ever won a Games medal, never mind a gold one.
Yafai said that he will indulge in a little good-natured one-upmanship when he sees them.
men's madison update
Denmark kept their cool in a wild men's madison race on Saturday, beating Great Britain and France to win gold in the Izu Velodrome.
Lasse Norman Hansen and Michael Morkov took control for the Danes in the second half of the race in Shizuoka, while a late dash from Britain clinched silver, leaving France to settle for bronze.
COMING UP NEXT
Bajrang Punia's bronze medal bout in the freestyle 65kg is up next at 3:55pm.
PLATFORM DIVING UPDATE
China proved its Olympic diving dominance once again on Saturday as Cao Yuan took gold in the individual 10m platform, with teammate Yang Jian scooping the silver.
Bronze went to Britain's Tom Daley, who was back on the podium after an emotional gold medal win in the men's 10m synchronised last week.
That was the only diving event out of eight at the Tokyo Games that has not been won by China.
Cao and Yang were dominant through most of the 10m platform competition, taking the two top spots in both qualifiers and semi-finals.
Synchronised swimming update
Japan, once a synchronised swimming star that nearly always secured a place on the Olympic podium, is this year struggling to hang onto the team bronze it won in Rio 2016 after already failing to retain duet bronze.
The rising star is Ukraine, which edged Japan for that medal on Wednesday and finished in third place to Japan's fourth in the team technical event on Friday - a placement that hurts more in an Olympics hosted at home. The Russian team was first and China second.
Though Japan has never won gold since synchronised swimming became an Olympic sport in 1984, it has taken either silver or bronze, in duet or team, every year except for London 2012.
Boxing update
Busenaz Surmeneli of Turkey beat Gu Hong of China to win the women's welterweight boxing gold at the Tokyo Olympics on Saturday.
Gu took silver, while Lovlina Borgohain of India and Oshae Jones of the United States both won bronze medals as losing semi-finalists.
UP NEXT:
Wrestling: Bajrang Punia will compete in Men's Wrestling 65kg Bronze medal bout
Athletics: Neeraj Chopra will compete in Men's Javelin Throw final
Golf update:
Aditi Ashok is just outside the medal spot. Likely to finish fourth. Unless Lydia Ko misses this shot.
Golf update:
Aditi Ashok slips to fourth position at this point with one more hole to play.
Golf action resumes
Golf action resumes with Aditi Ashok tied at third position with 2 holes to play.
Golf update:
Confirmed: Play to resume at 9:45.
Update:
Golf action set to resume in about 20 minutes.
Rules explained:
Rain suspends play
Rain has suspended play | Storm is expected | Next update around 0930 hrs IST.
Aditi at tied Bronze medal spot (with one other) | 2 holes to go.
Golf update:
Storm winning, and the play has been halted for some time.
Golf update:
Aditi Ashok is currently at the third position along with New Zealand's Ko Lydia with two more holes to play.
Golf update:
Aditi Ashok slips out of a medal position with three more holes to go. Can she bounce back?
Golf update:
Aditi Ashok gets a birdie and now she is tied at the 2nd place with Japan's Mone Inami and New Zealand's Ko Lydia with four holes to play.
Golf update:
Aditi Ashok gets a birdie to get back to tied for the 2nd position with five holes to go.
Golf update:
Aditi Ashok has got a bogey and is now currently out of medal contention. Can she bounce back?
Golf update:
Aditi Ashok on par with her 9th hole, and now she has slipped in the list, tied at no. 3 position.
Golf update:
Aditi Ashok gets another birdie to take her total par total to -15, but New Zealand's Lydia Ko are matching her point for point.
Golf update:
Aditi Ashok puts on par to keep herself tied at 2nd position.
