India at Olympics 2024, Day 10 Live: Avinash Sable through to final; Lakshya Sen loses bronze match

Live updates of the main events from Day 10 of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.

Aug 6, 2024 - 02:30
India at Olympics 2024, Day 10 Live: Avinash Sable through to final; Lakshya Sen loses bronze match

Wrestling, women’s 68kg: Nisha Dahiya's Olympics campaign comes to an official end as North Korea's Pak Sol Gum is defeated by USA's Amit Elor via technical superiority in just under 2 minutes of the semi-finals. There will be no repechage for Nisha.

Athletics, women’s 800m final: Keely Hodgkinson becomes the third British woman to win the 800m title! Hodgkinson, who won silver at Tokyo 2020, fought off Ethiopia’s Tsige Duguma and Kenya’s Mary Moraa to win gold in Paris.

Athletics, women’s discus throw final: USA’s Valarie Allman retains her title in style! Throws a mighty 69.60m with her fourth attempt to clinch it. In fact, any of her four legal throws out of six could have won Allman the gold tonight! China’s Feng Bin and Croatia’s Sandra Elkasevic both throw a best of 67.51m but Bin takes silver as she had a better second-best throw (67.25m) than Elkasevic (64.25mm)

Athletics, women’s 5000m final: Beatrice Chebet wins a women’s 5000m final for the ages! Faith Kipyegon, attempting to do the 1500m and 5000m double, comes second behind her compatriot with Tokyo 2020 champion Sifan Hasan taking bronze. Ethiopia’s Gudaf Tsegay, who holds the world record, had a tussle with Kipyegon around the last 800m, falls down...

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