Paris 2024 Olympics LIVE, 7th August: Mirabai Chanu Finishes Fourth, Avinash Sable 11th

Paris 2024 Olympics Live, Day 12: Women's 49kg Final Result

Mirabai Chanu's 199kg lift was disappointing show for an Olympic final. In comparison, she won a silver medal with a total lift of 202kg in Tokyo while lifting 115kg in clean and jerk. Lifting 113kg today would have sealed bronze at least.

Also, another important point was her failure to improve on her snatch performance, a 89kg lift would have increased her medal chances

Paris 2024 Live: Avinash Sable finishes 11th

Avinash Sable finishes 11th in the men's 3000m steeplechase with a timing of 8:14.18 seconds! While defending champions Soufiane El Bakkali takes the gold medal again with a timing of 8:06.05 seconds!

Avinash Sable in action!

Avinash Sable in action as he leads the pack early in the men's 3000m steeplechase final as he competes with reigning Olympic and World Champion El Bakkali and Lamecha Girma

Heartbreak for Mirabai Chanu!

Mirabai Chanu loses out on the medal as she fails to lift 114kg, a last-minute change as she wanted to challenge the top spot of Miahela but couldn't pull it off. She is now fourth with no attempts left!

Mirabai Chanu slips to 4th!

Surodchana Khambao and Mihaela Cambei puts pressure back on Mirabai Chanu with lifts of 112kg each!

Mihaela Cambei's total is now 205kg at 1st spot while Khambao is second at 200kg! Mirabai Chanu is next with a lift of 112kg of her last attempt!

Women's 49kg Weightlifting Podim Places Standing so far

1. Mihaela Cambei - 203kg (1 attempt left - 112kg)

2. Hou Zhihui - 199kg (2 attempts left - 115kg for next)

3. Mirabai Chanu - 199kg (1 attempt left - 112kg)

Mirabai Chanu clears 2nd attempt!

Big relief for the whole country as Mirabai Chanu clears 111kg in her second attempt! She goes tied second with Hou Zhihui at 199kg (111+88) while Mihaela Cambei is in the lead at 203kg!

Mirabai Chanu fails her first attempt!

Mirabai Chanu fails her 1st attempt and may jeopardise her medal hopes! She will be taking back-to-back attempt next!

Paris Olympics Live, August 7: Cambei takes lead again!

Mihaela Cambei takes sole lead again with a lift of 110kg in her second attempt! Her total is now 203kg (110+93) but may have hurt herself during the attempt as she pointed at her elbow. Mirabai Chanu is up next with an attempt of 111kg!

Paris Olympics 2024 Live, Day 12: Surodchana Khambao

Thailand'sSurodchana Khambao clears her first attempt with a lift of 110kg. Her total is now 198kg (110+88) and goes third behind Zhihui and Cambei, who is next with an attempt of 110kg!

Hou Zhihui clears first attempt!

Hou Zhihui clears her first attempt with a lift of 110kg! Taking her total to 199kg (89+110). She is now tied withMihaela Cambei.Surodchana Khambao is next, followed by Mirabai Chanu!

Mirabai Chanu increases weight for 1st attempt!

Mirabai Chanu's first attempt is slightly delayed as she increased the weight for her opening lift of clean and jerk to 111kg, which means Hou Zhihui andSurodchana Khambao will start before her!

Paris 2024 Live, August 7: Mihaela Cambei clears her first attempt!

Mihaela Cambei clears her first attempt of 106kg with a clean lift, taking her total to 199kg (93+106)! She puts the pressure on Mirabai, who starts next at 107kg!

Paris Olympics 2024 Live: Weightlifting

The clean and jerk round of the women's 49kg is underway but there's still some time before Mirabai Chanu begins action as she has logged a starting attempt of 107kg.

Mihaela Cambei, who is currently in the lead after winning the snatch event (no medals), will be in action before Mira as she has logged in a weight of 106kg.

Reigning Olympic Champion Hou Zhihui will start the last at 110kg, along with Thailand'sSurodchana Khambao, who lifted 88kg in the snatch.

Athletics Update: Men's Triple Jump Qualification Round

Men's Triple Jump: Both Indians Abdulla Aboobacker (16.49m) and Praveen Chithravel (16.25m) fail to qualify for the finals after failing to breach the standard of 17.10m

Clean and Jerk Round coming up next!

Clean and jerk round is coming up next. It's different from the snatch round, where you directly lift the barbell over you head at one go. However, in clean and jerk, you lift the barbell to your shoulders first before lifting over your head!

Mirabai Chanu is among the best in the business as she held the world record at 119kg but was broken by North Korea's Ri Song-gum (125kg), who couldn't qualify for Olympics after missing important qualifying events due to ban on North Korea

Women's Wightlifting 49kg Snatch Results

A look at the snatch category as we have a surprise leader in Romania's Mihaela Cambei, who improved on her previous best of 91 kg to 92kg! She gives Mira and Zhihui a run for their money. At this moment, Mirabai's medal hopes are facing a challenge!

Olympics 2024: Mihaela Cambei takes lead!

Mihaela Cambei takes the surprise lead with a big lift of 93kg in the snatch category, beating World Record Holder Hou Zhihui, who lifts just 89kg, failing to lift 93kg of her last attempt. Mirabai Chanu is third at 88kg.

However, clean and jerk category is yet to come and Mirabai Chanu is one of the best in business in this category!

Hou Zhihui clears 89kg!

Hou Zhihui clears 89kg in her second attempt! This means Mirabai Chanu is now pushed to third place while Hou Zhihui and Romania's Mihaela Cambei are holding the first two spots with 89kg lift!

Paris 2024 Olympics Live, Day 12: Hou Zhihui fails 1st attempt!

Hou Zhihui fails her first attempt of 89kg whileMihaela Cambei clears 89kg in her first attempt! Zhihui to make her second attempt for 89kg next!

Mirabai Chanu clears 88kg!

Mirabai Chanu matches her personal best of 88kg from her final attempt! She exits the snatch category with an 88kg attempt while Hou Zhihui andMihaela Cambei will go for 89kg next!

Mirabai Chanu 2nd attempt!

Mirabai Chanu fails to lift 88kg in her second attempt! She picked 87kg in Tokyo in the snatch category. She has one more attempt to go and she has decided to go with 88kg again!

Paris 2024 Live: Mirabai Chanu to lift 88kg in her 2nd attempt

Mirabai Chanu is going to be soon in action as she has logged a lift of 88kg for her second attempt, which is also her personal best, and came back in 2022 at the CWG

Paris Olympics Live, August 7: Mirabai Chanu Clears First Attempt!

Mirabai Chanu clears the first attempt of 85m in the snatch category! She has two more attempts left to take her total to over 88, which is her personal best.

Snatch never has been her strength while gold medal favourite and also defending champion Hou Zhihui is starting at 90kg in snatch and may look to go past her world record of a94kg tonight!

Remember, we have a clean and jerk round to come after this, which has been Mirabai's forte and she will aim to do a catchup there!

Praveen Chithravel 2nd attempt

Praveen Chithravel improves to 16.25m with her second attempt. Still a far cry from the qualification mark of 17.10m! It's all or nothing for him from his final attempt!

Meanwhile, Mirabai Chanu is yet to start in her event as she has logged a starting weight of 85kg in the snatch category and her event will be coming up soon!

Paris Olympics 2024 Live, Day 12: Abdulla Aboobacker 1st attempt

Abdulla Aboobacker disappoints with his opening attempt too! He jumps a mere 15.99m with two more attempts left while four jumpers have already qualified, including defending champion Pedro Pichardo (17.44m) and world championHugues Fabrice Zango (17.16m)

Men's Triple Jumple Qualification Round

Group B action is also underway and there's still some time before the other Indian Abdulla Aboobacker makes his first jump. CWG 2022 silver medallist Abdulla's personal best is 17.12m but his season best is a 17m. But there's no better place than the Olympics to give your best.

Paris 2024 Live, August 7: Praveen Chithravel's 1st attempt

Praveen Chithravel starts the night with a modest jump of 15.99m. Not the jump you want to see when he leapt 16.98m in Panchkula five weeks ago! Good thing, he still has two more attempts left to breach the qualifying standard of 17.10m

Paris Olympics 2024 Live: Praveen Chithravel in action soon

Group A qualification round is already underway and triple jump national record holder Praveen Chithravel (17.37m) will be in action first in Group A very soon as he is 12th jumper in the order while the 11th jumper is about to take his jump. The qualification mark for tonight is 17.10m while Praveen's season best has been 17.12m from back in April.

Olympics 2024: Men's Triple Jump Qualification Round

Welcome back to the late-night coverage of the Paris Olympics Day 12. Two Indian triple jumpers are in action first before we see weightlifter Mirabai Chanu in action in the women's qualification round at 11 PM IST