It was India’s ninth silver medal in Olympic history and a second silver medal in wrestling after Sushil Kumar at London 2012. The 23-year-old Ravi Kumar Dahiya lost to twice world champion Zavur Uguev of ROC in the final of the men’s 57kg freestyle wrestling, thus ending up with a silver medal. Ravi Kumar Dahiya - Silver medal - men’s 57kg freestyle wrestlingĪnother Olympic debutant and another medal for India. It is India’s third confirmed medal of Tokyo 2020 - one more than their haul at Rio 2016. PV Sindhu beat China’s He Bing Jiao 21-13, 21-15 to win the bronze medal in the women’s singles. PV Sindhu - Bronze medal - women’s singles badmintonīadminton queen PV Sindhu became the first Indian woman and only the second Indian athlete - after Sushil Kumar - to win two individual Olympic medals. Lovlina Borgohain had beaten Chinese Taipei’s Nien-Chin Chen in the quarter-finals to assure herself of a medal. On her Games debut, Lovlina Borgohain won a bronze medal at Tokyo 2020 after losing in the semi-finals to top seed Busenaz Surmeneli of Turkey in the women’s 69kg. Lovlina Borgohain - Bronze medal - women’s welterweight (64-69kg) Here are the other Indian Olympic medallists at Tokyo 2020. It was India’s second weightlifting Olympic medal, after Karnam Malleswari’s bronze at Sydney 2000. Weightlifter Mirabai Chanu opened India’s medal account at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics with a silver in the women’s 49kg - her first medal at the Olympics.
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