On Day 13 of the 2024 Paris Olympics, records tumbled as Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone of the USA broke the world record in the Women’s 400m Hurdles event with a timing of 50.34 seconds.
Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo won the Men’s 200m final with a timing of 19.46 seconds to secure his first gold medal at the Olympics. This is also the first-ever Olympic gold for his country.
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HOCKEY
Men’s Bronze Medal
Team India brought some much-needed respite and elation to the fans back home by winning the bronze medal, beating Spain with a score line of 2-1.
With this result, the India men’s hockey team have won back-to-back Olympic medals for the first time since 1980.
WRESTLING
Women’s Freestyle 57 kg
Anshu Malik lost her first-round bout 2-7 to Helen Maroulis of the US.
Men’s Freestyle 57 kg
Aman Sehrawat lost his semi-final bout 0-10 (by technical superiority) to Japan’s Rei Higuchi. Sehrawat will now play for the bronze medal.
ATHLETICS
Women’s 100m hurdles Repechage Round Heat 1
India’s Jyothi Yarraji raced to a P4 finish in the repechage round with a timing of 13.16 seconds, but it wasn’t enough to qualify for the semi-finals.
Men’s Javelin Throw Finals
Golden boy Neeraj Chopra won the silver with a throw of 89.45 metres, while Pakistan’s Arshad Nadeem breached the 90m mark twice, setting an Olympic record of 92.97 metres to clinch the gold medal.
GOLF
Women’s Individual Strokeplay Round 2
After Round 2, Both Indian golfers Diksha Dagar and Aditi Ashok are placed P14 in the standings. Round 3 will be played tomorrow.
Paris Olympics 2024: CURRENT STANDINGS
| POSITION | COUNTRY | GOLD | SILVER | BRONZE | TOTAL MEDALS |
| 1 | US | 30 | 38 | 45 | 103 |
| 2 | CHINA | 29 | 25 | 19 | 73 |
| 3 | AUSTRALIA | 18 | 14 | 13 | 45 |
| 4 | FRANCE | 14 | 19 | 21 | 54 |
| 64 | INDIA | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
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