The Indians on Saturday

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

• Kunjarani Devi failed to win a medal in the 48 kg as she finished fifth in an event that saw a world record.
• Jitender Kumar lost his 81kg bout to Andriy Fedchuk of Ukraine after second round RSC
• 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
• 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.
• 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.
• India tasted defeat on the judo mat with lone qualifier Akram Shah bowing out to Mongolian Khasbaatar Tsaganbaatar in just 44 seconds
• Lone rowing entry K P Paulose finished last among five in the heats of the single sculls event .
• Achanta Sharath Kamal brought up some cheer on a gloomy day with a 4-1 win over Algerian Mohammed Boudjadja in the first round.
• 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
Women’s indiv eliminations
• Dola Banerjee v Kirstin Jean Lewis (SA) Time: 6 p.m.
• Sumangala Sharma v Li Ju Chen Time: 6 p.m.
• Reena Kumari v Kristine Esebua Time: Noon
VIJENDER SINGH (Boxing)
• Light Welter Weight (64 kg): v Mustafa Karagollu (Turkey) Time: 11 p.m.
THE HOCKEY TEAM
• Pool match v Holland Time: 11 p.m.
MANSHER SINGH, MANAVJIT SINGH
(Shooting) Men’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 S&M. Top quality basketball — and you can be sure Messrs LeBron James and others will be watching
Odds for gold medal
Argentina: 7/1; Serbia& Montenegro: 10/1 Time: 7:15 pm

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