Paris Olympics 2024 – Day 13 Recap

Neha Johri Neha Johri

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

POSITIONCOUNTRYGOLDSILVERBRONZETOTAL MEDALS
1US303845103
2CHINA29251973
3AUSTRALIA18141345
4FRANCE14192154
64INDIA0145
PARIS OLYMPICS 2024 DAY 13 RECAP
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