Paris Olympics 2024 Day 3 Highlights: Manika Batra makes history; Arjun Babuta misses out on medal

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 3 Live Updates: Arjun Babuta narrowly missing out on a medal was probably the big news of the day but Manika Batra dominating French home favourite Prithika Pavade and becoming the first Indian to reach the singles round of 16 at the Olympics was just as big. We also saw Lakshya Sen showing why he is a medal contender while Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty sealed a spot in the quarterfinals. Manu Bhaker has already won a bronze medal and has a chance to become the first Indian in the country's independent history to win two medals at the same Olympics as she reached the mixed team 10m air pistol bronze medal match with Sarabjot Singh. They will face Korea's Oh ye Jin and Lee Wonho at 1pm IST tomorrow. Bhajan Kaur, Ankita Bhakat and Dhiraj Bommadevara will look to progress in individual archery. That and mucn more to look forward to. Good night!

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 3 Live Updates: Archery

- Indian team of Tarundeep Rai, Dhiraj Bommadevara and Pravin Jadhav lose 5-1 to Turkey in men's team quarterfinals

Hockey

- Late goal from Harmanpreet Singh helps India draw 1-1 with Argentina in men's hockey

Shooting

- Arjun Babuta finishes fourth in men's 10m air rifle final

- Manu Bhaker-Sarabjot Singh 3rd in 10m air pistol mixed team qualification, into bronze medal match.

Rhythm Sangwan, Arjun Cheema 10th, miss out on a medal match.

- Ramita Jindal finishes in 7th position in 10m air rifle women's final.

- Prithviraj Tondaiman place 30th in men's trap qualification

Badminton

- Lakshya Sen wins 21-19, 21-14 against Julien Carraggi

- Ashwini Ponnappa-Tanisha Crasto lose 21-11 21-12 in second group stage match.

- Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy through to the quarterfinals in men's doubles

Table Tennis

- Manika Batra through to table tennis women's singles round of 16 with 3-0 win over France's Prithika Pavade

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 3 Live Updates: Quite an upset in women's 200m freestyle swimming final. Australia's Ariarne Titmus, the defending champion and runaway favourite, has been beaten to gold by her compatriot Mollie O'Callaghan, who swims an Olympic record time of 1:53.27. Tirmus wins silver with 1:53.81 while Hong Kong's Siobhan Haughey takes bronze with 1:54.55.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 3 Live Updates: And here is the winning moment for Manika Batra. This was quite a performance from her and Manika becomes the first Indian to go through to the round of 16 in singles table tennis at the Olympics.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 3 Live Updates: She sends a backhand and Pavade responds by hitting it into the net. Manika roars in delight and some relief, she is through to the pre-quarters of women's singles at these Olympics.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 3 Live Updates: Manika races away to a whopping six match points. Pavade then bites back and gives the Indian something to think about by winning four points on the trot.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 3 Live Updates: Manika just reeling the points away now. She is very much on the way to the round of 16 unless Pavade can pull off something special here.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 3 Live Updates: Manika found the net with her backhand and lost another game point after the timeout. But she finally does the job and lets out a roar after an unforced error from Pavade. One more game win and Manika is through to the round of 16.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 3 Live Updates: Well this is quite a fightback from Pavade. Manika gets to game point and then Pavade reels off the next four points to suddenly bring the margin down to two points. India coach Massimo Costantini takes a time-out at that point.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 3 Live Updates: Pavade fights back to reduce the deficit to four points but this game still seems to be slipping away from her. Manika two away from ga point.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 3 Live Updates: Manika races to a 4-0 lead. Pavade takes a time out after losing the third point. She then somehow defends successfully and takes a point in the game.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 3 Live Updates: The backhand does it for Manika. Pavade needs to break this momentum to stay in this match, Manika pretty much a runaway train towards the end of that Game. Two more game wins and she is through to the round of 16.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 3 Live Updates: The Indian is on a roll now. The spin that Manika is generating by the long pimpled red part of her paddle is turning out to be quite a bane for Pavade. Manika has raced to a 10-6 lead now.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 3 Live Updates: This time it is Pavade who goes off to a slow start, trailing 1-3. She battles hard but Manika stays put and it is 5-5 in Game 2. No time to breath for anyone, the players and the ones humbly covering it.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 3 Live Updates: She lost the first three points but the came back and survives a real slugfest to take the first game. This game was played at a frantic pace and Pavade was done by a couple of backhands from Manika into her body.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 3 Live Updates: Well some strange scenes as Manika's point is scrapped at 10-8 as a ball from another table interrupts the play. She loses the replayed point and it is 9-9.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 3 Live Updates: A couple of fantastic forehands down the land from Manika gets her level at 3-3. Pavade pulls away but more power from Manika and the score is 5-5.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 3 Live Updates: Pavade wins the first two points with some quick hands off Manika's serve. Then she wins a point off her own serve.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 3 Live Updates: Manika Batra serving in the opening game. This is the round of 32 and Manika's opponent Prithik Pavade is only 19 and is already playing in her second Olympics. Pavade is of Indian origin and was born in Pondicherry.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 3 Live Updates: Right the final event involving an Indian on this Olympic day is imminent. 18th seed Manika Batra is facing 12th seed Prithika Pavade.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 3 Live Updates: Korea have beaten France 5-1 and won gold in men's team archery. The Koreans were just irresistible, shooting 10s in all but four of the 18 arrows that they sent. Turkiye, who beat India in the quarterfinals, won bronze after beating China 6-2.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 3 Live Updates: Nigeria earned their first win in women's basketball at the Olympics since 2004 by beating the much more favoured Australia 75-62 in their group play opener. Nigeria failed to qualify for the 2016 Rio Games and went winless in Tokyo. Australia is led by coach Sandy Brondello from the WNBA's New York Liberty and came in ranked third in the world, compared to 12th for Nigeria. Fans inside Pierre Mauroy Stadium were on their feet cheering and applauding Nigeria in the final seconds before the players and coaches ran to midcourt to jump, hug and celebrate. Then they high-fived the Australians.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 3 Live Updates: Sinone Biles tweaked her left calf while warming up for floor exercise during qualifying on Sunday. She retreated briefly to have the calf taped but then returned and posted the top scores on floor and vault on her way to topping the all-around. Last week, U.S. team leaders had considered holding Biles out of the uneven bars in team finals to give her a small break during the Games. Instead, Biles will be part of every event during the finals, AP reports, when three gymnasts compete and all three scores count. Her husband, Jonathan Owens, is expected to be there.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 3 Live Updates: Prithviraj Tondaiman is sitting at the bottom of the 30-man field in men's trap at the end of the three qualification rounds of 25 each with a score of 68/75. The 37-year-old, who had secured a place in the Indian contingent after displacing Olympic quota winner Bhowneesh Mendiratta at the end of the selection trials, shot a poor 22 in the opening round before scoring a perfect 25 in the second round. He again hit a bad batch in the third qualification round, missing four clay pigeons to be virtually out of contention for a place in the top-six. Sweden's Rickard Levin-Andersson scored 74/75 to lead the field. The six finalists will be decided at the end of two more qualification rounds on Tuesday.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 3 Live Updates: There is a big match at 12.30am IST between Manika Batra and France's Prithika Pavade in women's singles table tennis round of 32. Pavade is one of the most exciting talents in the game at the moment and she is seeded 12th whereas Manika is 18th.