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This is an archive article published on August 15, 2004

The Indians on Saturday

8226; Kunjarani Devi failed to win a medal in the 48 kg as she finished fifth in an event that saw a world record. ...

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8226; Kunjarani Devi failed to win a medal in the 48 kg as she finished fifth in an event that saw a world record.
8226; Jitender Kumar lost his 81kg bout to Andriy Fedchuk of Ukraine after second round RSC
8226; Medal hope Anjali Bhagwat, ranked sixth in the world, flopped badly in her pet 10m Air rifle. After scoring 96/100 in the first round of the series in preliminaries, she finished joint 20th 393 out of 44
8226; Suma Shirur, however, reached the medal round, only to finish eighth with an overall aggregate of 497.2. Suma shot much better to finish seventh with a tally of 396 in the preliminaries.
8226; After 75 shots, Manavjit Singh Sandhu 71 and Mansher Singh 69 were placed at 16th and 22nd on day one of the trap event among 35 shooters.
8226; India tasted defeat on the judo mat with lone qualifier Akram Shah bowing out to Mongolian Khasbaatar Tsaganbaatar in just 44 seconds
8226; Lone rowing entry K P Paulose finished last among five in the heats of the single sculls event .
8226; Achanta Sharath Kamal brought up some cheer on a gloomy day with a 4-1 win over Algerian Mohammed Boudjadja in the first round.
8226; World No 27 Aparna Popat took just 23 minutes to shut out South African Michelle Edwards for a 11-6, 11-3 win.

INDIANS IN ACTION TODAY

THE ARCHERY TEAM
Women8217;s indiv eliminations
8226; Dola Banerjee v Kirstin Jean Lewis SA Time: 6 p.m.
8226; Sumangala Sharma v Li Ju Chen Time: 6 p.m.
8226; Reena Kumari v Kristine Esebua Time: Noon
VIJENDER SINGH Boxing
8226; Light Welter Weight 64 kg: v Mustafa Karagollu Turkey Time: 11 p.m.
THE HOCKEY TEAM
8226; Pool match v Holland Time: 11 p.m.
MANSHER SINGH, MANAVJIT SINGH
Shooting Men8217;s Trap, Rd-4 and 5 Time: 4 p.m. approx
SHARATH KAMAL
TT 2nd round v Chak Lai Ko Time: 8-30 p.m.
SANAMACHA CHANU
Weightlifting 53 kg, qualifs and final Main Threat: Udomporn Polsak Thailand, Raema Lisa Rumbewas Indonesia Time: 7 p.m

THE MAIN EVENT

Sunday, August 15
Argentina vs Serbia and Montenegro
Basketball 1st round
The face-off between the two top teams of the last World Championship will decide which will challenge the US Dream Team. Both have NBA stars: Carlos Delfino, Emanuel Ginobili, Andres Nocioni for Argentina and Peja Drobnjak, Nenad Krstic, Aleksandar Pavlovic and Vlad Radmanovic from S038;M. Top quality basketball 8212; and you can be sure Messrs LeBron James and others will be watching
Odds for gold medal
Argentina: 7/1; Serbia038; Montenegro: 10/1 Time: 7:15 pm

 

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