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In the 2024 Olympics in Paris, Sindhu won both her games in group M but lost in the round of 16 to He Bingjiao of China, the same player she had beaten in the 2020 Games bronze medal match. [148] At the end of the year, Sindhu won the 2024 Syed Modi International title beating Wu Luoyu of China in the final. [149]
P.V. Sindhu and Sharath Kamal were the flag-bearers for the opening ceremony. Manu Bhaker and P. R. Sreejesh carried the Indian flag during the closing ceremony. India won six medals including a silver and five bronze to be ranked 71st amongst the 206 NOCs that participated in the Olympics.
The other two medalists from 2016, silver medalist P. V. Sindhu of India and bronze medalist Nozomi Okuhara of Japan, both qualified with Top-10 rankings. P. V. Sindhu was also the reigning world champion and the only one of the three former Olympic medalists to be medalled again where she won the bronze medal.
The Olympic rings mounted on the Eiffel Tower is illuminated in Paris on June 28, 2024. Credit - The Yomiuri Shimbun/The Associated Press. T he Paris Summer Olympic Games are coming to an end this ...
Yamaguchi competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics as the number four seed. [64] Just like the last edition, she was defeated in the quarter-finals. She lost against P. V. Sindhu. [65] Yamaguchi became the Denmark Open champion for the second time by besting her rival from South Korea, An Se-young. This was also her second super 1000 title. [66]
Olympics bronze medalist Mary Kom with young sportsperson. At the 2016 Rio Olympics, P. V. Sindhu became the first ever Indian woman to win a silver medal at the Olympics. She reached the Women's singles badminton final, which she lost to Carolina Marín of Spain on 19 August 2016. [10] She also became the youngest Indian to win an Olympic medal.
[81] [82] Shuttler P. V. Sindhu became the first Indian woman to win an Olympic silver medal and the youngest Indian woman medalist after she won a silver medal in badminton. [82] [83] Sakshi Malik became the first Indian female wrestler to win an Olympic medal with her bronze medal in the women's freestyle 58 kg category.
In March, Miyazaki won the Orléans Masters title after defeating Hina Akechi in the finals. [7] The following week, at the Swiss Open, she defeated the 2019 world champion and Olympic medalist P. V. Sindhu in the second round, [8] but ultimately lost to Olympic gold medalist Carolina Marin in the semi-finals.