Paris Olympics 2024, Day 10 Highlights: Avinash Sable through to 3000m steeplechase final

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 10 Live Updates: Avinash Sable slowed off towards the end to conserve energy for the final

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 10 Highlights: Avinash Sable became the first Indian to qualify for a final in track and field at the 2024 Paris Olympics by going through in men's 3000m steeplechase. Sable said that he deliberately slowed off in the end of his Heat when he saw that he had done enough to qualify to conserve energy for the final. He finished fifth in Heat 2.

Sable's achievement comes as a bright spark for India on a day when athletes from the country fell while being agonisingly close to a medal twice. India's mixed team skeet duo Anant Jeet Singh Naruka and Maheshwari Chauhan battled hard but missed out on a bronze medal, losing 43-44 to China. Lakshya Sen, meanwhile, started his men's singles bronze medal well against Malaysia's Lee Zii Jia but then went on to lose 21-13, 16-21, 11-21. All three, hence, joined the long list of Indian athletes who have finished fourth at the Olympics over the years.

Earlier, the Indian women's table tennis team consisting of Sreeja Akula, Archana Kamath and Manika Batra registered a 3-2 win over Romania to go through to the quarterfinals of the event. Sreeja Akula and Archana Kamath won the doubles match with ease, followed by Manika Batra winning the first singles match and thus putting India within one win of reaching the quarters. However, Akula and Archana then lost their singles matches and Manika returned to for the decisive final game to take India through.

There was plenty of action for India on Day 9 of the ongoing Paris Olympics 2024, with Lakshya Sen remaining in medal contention despite a defeat. The ace shuttler lost 20-22 14-21 to Denmark's Viktor Axelsen. After the defeat, Lakshya remains in the hunt for a medal and will fight for bronze. Meanwhile, in athletics Parul Chaudhary came eighth in the women's 3000m steeplechase round 1, failing to qualify further.

The men's hockey team were in fine form and defeated Great Britain on penalties after the match ended 1-1 in regulation time. In shooting, Vijayveer Sidhu and Anish Bhanwala failed to qualify for the final of 25m men's rapid fire pistol. India's boxing campaign came to an end as Lovlina Borgohain lost her women's 75kg quarter-final bout.

Results on Day 10:

Badminton:

Lakshya Sen loses 21-13, 16-21, 11-21 to Lee Zii Jia, misses out on men's singles bronze

Table tennis:

India beat Romania 3-2 in women's team round of 16, through to quarterfinals

Athletics:

Kiran Pahal finishes 7th in women's 400m round 1 heat 5, through to repechage round

Avinash Sable finishes 5th in men's 3000m steeplechlase round 1 heat 2, through to final

Shooting:

Maheshwari Singh, Anant Jeet Singh Naruka finish fourth in mixed team skeet shooting qualification, India through to bronze medal match

Maheshwari Singh, Anant Jeet Singh Naruka lose 43-44 to China's Yiting Jiang and Jianlin Lyu, India miss out on mixed team skeet shooting bronze medal

Wrestling:

Nisha Dahiya beats Ukraine's Tetiana Sova Rizhko 6-4, through to women's 68kg quarterfinal

Nisha Dahiya loses to North Korea's Pak Sol Gum 10-4 in women's 68kg quarterfinal

Sailing:

Vishnu Saravanan finishes 18th overall in men's dinghy out of 43 with a net score of 114 after 8 races

Nethra Kumanan finishes 21st overall, out of 43 with a net score of 155 after 9 races