Fourth walker out as Sandeep gets disqualified from men’s 50km race

India’s Sandeep Kumar was disqualified during the men’s 50 kilometre race walk on Thursday. Sandeep received three official warnings during the race which led to his disqualification.

Hayato Katsuki of Japan won gold with a time of four hours, three minutes and 30 seconds. This was the fourth instance an Indian long distance athlete was disqualified.

Earlier in the Games, Baby Soumya was disqualified in the women’s 20km race walk. In the men’s 20km race walk too, national record holder KT Irfan and Manish Rawat were disqualified.

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DANISH, JYOTI ENTER KURASH PRE-QUARTERS

India’s Danish Sharma and Jyoti Tokas advanced to the pre-quarterfinals of their respective kurash events.

Danish defeated Indonesia’s Muhammad Alfais 3-0 in the men’s 90 kg category and Jyoti trumped Thailand’s Prawanwit Meesri 1-0 in the women’s 78kg category.

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HARDEEP, GARIMA LOSE IN JUDO PRE-QUARTERS

Indian judokas Harshdeep Singh Brar and Garima Choudhary crashed out in the pre-quarterfinals of their respective events.

Hardeep lost to South Korea’s Seungsu Lee 3-10 in men’s 81kg category. In the women’s 70kg event, Garima lost to Gulnoza Matniyazov of Uzbekistan 0-10.

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MOUMA BOWS OUT OF SINGLES TABLE TENNIS

Mouma Das crashed out of the women’s singles table tennis competition.

The 34-year-old suffered a 0-4 defeat against Taiwan’s Szuyu Chen in a Round of 32 affair. Chen outclassed Mouma 11-6, 11-5, 11-6, 11-6 to advance to the pre-quarters of the competition.

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