OLYMPIC MEDAL PROSPECTS FOR INDIA

OLYMPIC MEDAL PROSPECTS FOR INDIA

Gracenote, who provides statistical data for major tournaments across sports, has predicted as much as 17 medals for India in Tokyo Olympics. There’s no doubt this edition is potentially going to be the best Olympic game for India as Boria Majumdar said, “Tokyo is going to be game-changer for Indian Sport.” Here KheLoVerse presents to you the Medal Predictions for Tokyo.

It will be disgrace if India can’t clinch at least 5-6 medals in Shooting given the immense talent India possesses.

Divyansh Singh Panwar and Elavenil Valarivan

• Gold for Divyansh Singh Panwar and Elavenil Valarivan in 10m Air Rifle Mixed Team event. As Elavenil is World no. 1 and Divyansh slipped to no. 2 ranking just some days ago from top of the list, they are expected to dominate the event as they continuously done so in many ISSF Shooting World Cups.

  

  Rahi Sarnobat

  
  

• Silver for Rahi Sarnobat in Women’s 25m sports Pistol. The experienced campaigner is looking unstoppable in recent times and won a World Cup Gold just a few days back with considerable margin. She is world no. 2 in the particular event where no. 1 is also Indian Chinki Yadav.

  

  Saurabh Chaudhary

  

   Abhishek Verma

  
  
  

• In Men’s 10m Air Pistol, world’s top two shooters are Abhishek Verma and Saurabh Chaudhary respectively. Any of the two may clinch Gold for team India; more than one medal is possible too. KheLoVerse bets on Saurabh Chaudhary for Gold and Bronze for Abhishek Verma.

  

  Yashaswini Singh Deswal

  
  

• Same scenario in Women’s 10m Air Pistol too. Possibility of more than one medal as Yashaswini Singh Deswal is world no. 1 with Manu Bhaker is just behind her. We predict Silver for Yashaswini Singh Deswal.

  

  Saurabh-Manu
  
  
  

  

  Abhishek-Yashaswini

  
  
  

• In 10m Air Pistol Mixed team, Saurabh will pair with Manu Bhaker and Yashaswini with Abhishek Verma. Our prediction is: Bronze for Abhishek-Yashaswini and Silver for Saurabh-Manu.

  

  Elavenil Valarivan

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  Divyansh Singh Panwar

  
  
  

• Though Gold should be the limit for Divyansh and Elavenil in individual event. We say, Silver for Divyansh Singh Panwar in Men’s 10m Air Rifle Bronze for Elavenil Valarivan in Women’s 10m Air Rifle.

Shooting is a very unpredictable sport and as almost all the Indian shooters have been winning international medals in recent years, on their day anyone can storm into podium. Keep an eye on Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar (world no. 2) and Anjum Moudgil in 50m Rifle 3 Positions too.

Amit Panghal

• Silver for Amit Panghal in Boxing:Though Amit is now ranked 1 in 52kg weight category, looks like it will be tough for him to make it to Gold, but he surely can produce a silver for his country.

  

  Lovlina Borgohain

  
  

• We predict Bronze for Lovlina Borgohain in Boxing as she sits at the no. 3 of world ranking in 69kg weight class.

In boxing, Simranjit Kaur is also ranked world no. 6 in 64kg category and legend Mary Kom in 51kg category while Manish Kaushik is world no. 6 in 64kg category. Hopes will be high from them too.

Ravi Dahiya

• Bronze for Ravi Dahiya in Wrestling for 57kg weight class. Though he has dropped to no. 3 from no. 2 of world ranking he has enough potential to bring home bronze or even better result.

  

  Bajrang Punia

  
  

• In men’s wrestling the most glittering name right now is surely of former world no. 1 Bajrang Punia. KheLoVerse predicts a Silver medal from him.

  

  Anshu Malik

  
  

• Indian teenage wrestler Anshu Malik is a great potential. She has been to no. 2 already. She can clinch a Bronze in Women’s 57kg class.

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  Vinesh Phogat

  
  

• And here comes the showstopper in boxing, Vinesh Phogat. She has dominated the 53kg class so much that anything under Gold will be disappointing from her.

Saikhom Mirabai Chanu 

• Here we have another athlete who will fight for Golden glory. Saikhom Mirabai Chanu in weightlifting. She has already has broken his own World Record in Clean and Jerk more than once. If she just can pull off better weight in snatch the current world no. 2 isn’t looking to stop before winning Gold.

Neeraj Chopra

• Athletics has never been that much fruitful for India. But this time, we have Neeraj Chopra in Javelin Throw. Gold look to be out of reach with Johannes Vetter in the town, but we can surely dream of a podium finish by him if he stays on top of his game. KheLoVerse predicts Bronze.

Deepika Kumari

• Deepika Kumari will go to Tokyo as world no. 1 in Archery, having completed historic triple gold in World Cup Phase 3 in Paris. As she is going to fight both in individual event and in mixed team event, medal hope is high from Deepika. We are predicting a Silver medal for Deepika in individual event.

Along with all them India will have high hopes on their badminton-superstar PV Sindhu and Men’s hockey team. Both can make a podium finish but given to recent bad patch of PV Sindhu and lack of international matches of Men’s Hockey Team we are keeping them out of our predicted list. Though, as Sindhu has always been big-stage player, you never know what happens. Just as you never know from which unexpected source of athlete medal will come and astonish all of us, as it happened in Rio2016. So, let’s pray for every single member of the Indian Team. Hope they give their best and hold the nation’s flag high. Till then, follow covid-rules, stay safe and support India. And to support our work, do like, comment, share and subscribe our channel. Thank you.  

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