Paris Olympics Sailing: Vishnu Saravanan placed 25th after two races in Men's Dinghy event

Hangzhou Asian Games bronze medalist Vishnu Saravanan has made a good start to the men's dinghy event at the Paris Olympics. At the end of Day 1 of the event, he finished 10th and 34th in the two races and has accumulated 44 net points to be positioned 25th overall. The next races are slated for tomorrow (August 2), with Race 3 starting at 7:05 PM IST.

After the two races which took place today, the top three sailors are Stefano Peschiera of Peru, Matt Wearn of Australia and Eduardo Marques of Portugal. The top 10 ranked boats at the end of the 10 races will book themselves a place in the medal round of the competition.

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India's Day 6 performances at Paris Olympics 2024

Apart from Swapnil Kusale's bronze medal in the men's 50m 3P event and Lakshya Sen's progress into the quarter-finals of the men's singles badminton event, there haven't been much good news for Indian fans.

Top Indian boxer Nikhat Zareen has been knocked out in her Round-of-16 bout. On the other hand, HS Prannoy suffered a defeat at the hands of his compatriot Lakshya Sen in the Round of 16. Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty, who were deemed medal hopefuls for the nation, also got ousted in the men's doubles quarter-finals by the Malaysian pair of Aaron Chia and Soh Wooi Yik.

Other Indian shooters Sift Kaur Samra and Anjum Moudgil too failed to get past the women's 50m 3P qualification stages. The men's and women's 20km race walk too didn't yield any fruits, as Vikash Singh, Akshdeep Singh, Paramjeet Singh Bisht, and Priyanka Goswami all were knocked out. Akshdeep notably, couldn't finish the race.

In archery, Praveen Jadhav lost in the Round of 64 to China's Kao Wenchao. He was also part of the team event where India reached the quarter-finals but ultimately succumbed to eventual bronze medalists Turkey.