London Olympics 2012: Day 4 (Tuesday) Highlights

Live updates from the London Olympics 2012 day 4.

London: Boxer Manoj Kumar enters pre-quarterfinals

Indian boxer Manoj Kumar stormed into the pre-quarterfinals by defeating Turkmenistan’s Serdar Hudayberdiyev 13-7 in the Men’s Light Welter (64 kg) category. After the first round, both the boxers were leveled at 2-2. But Manoj Kumar took a decisive lead in the second round. After the second round he was leading 7-3. Michael Phelps is now the greatest Olympian Michael Phelps broke the Olympic medals record Tuesday with his 19th as the United States romped to a dominating win in 4x200-meter freestyle relay at the London Games. With 19 career medals spanning three Olympics, Phelps moved one ahead of Soviet gymnast Larisa Latynina, who got her haul in 1956, 1960 and 1964. And he finally got his first gold of these games, bouncing back from the disappointment of settling for silver when he glided at the end of the 200 butterfly earlier Tuesday. Jwala Gutta-Ashwini Ponappa stormed into the next round Jwala Gutta-Ashwini Ponappa stormed into the next round of the badminton event of the London Olympics by beating SM Sari and L Yao of Singapore 21-16, 21-15. Djokovic in 2nd round World No. 2 Novak Djokovic defeated Andy Roddick 6-2, 6-1 in the second round of the Olympics at Wimbledon on Tuesday. Roddick failed to put up any fight against the Serbian who finished with 34 winners to Roddick’s 12. Indian archers knocked out barring Deepika Kumari Click on the picture to read full story Rahul Banerjee knocked out Indian archer Rahul Banerjee crashed out of London Olympics as he lost 3-7 to Rafal Dobrowolski of Poland in the pre-quarterfinals of the men's individual event at the Lord's Cricket Ground. Tarundeep Rai ousted in pre-quarters India's Tarundeep Rai lost 2-6 agaisnt Bubmin Kim of Republic of Korea in the Olympic pre-quarterfinals of the men's individual event at the Lord's Cricket Ground. Unfortunately with this event the Indian challenge in the men's archery event at the London Olympics has finally come to an end. Archery: Tarundeep Rai wins against Juan Carlos Stevens Tarundeep Rai wins the Rd of 32. Tarundeep Rai: 9 Stevens:8 Shoot off now. Tie-breaker now. Set is 5-5. Tarundeep Rai takes fifth set 27-26 Tarundeep Rai 3rd arrow: 9 Stevens 3rd arrow: 10 Tarundeep Rai 2nd arrow: 8 Stevens 2nd arrow: 7 Tarundeep Rai 1st arrow: 10 Stevens 1st arrow: 9 Tarundeep takes fourth set 28-26 Tarundeep Rai 3rd arrow: 10 Stevens 3rd arrow: 9 Tarundeep Rai 2nd arrow: 10 Stevens 2nd arrow: 8 Tarundeep Rai 1st arrow: 8 Stevens 1st arrow: 9 Match point for Stevens. Cuban Stevens takes third set 28-27 Tarundeep Rai 3rd arrow: 8 Stevens 3rd arrow: 9 Tarundeep Rai 2nd arrow: 9 Stevens 2nd arrow: 10 Tarundeep Rai 1st arrow: 10 Stevens 1st arrow: 9 Stevens leads 3-1 2nd Set: Honours even: 27-27 Tarundeep Rai 3rd arrow: 8 Stevens 3rd arrow: 9 Tarundeep Rai 2nd arrow: 9 Stevens 2nd arrow:8 Tarundeep Rai first arrow: 10 Stevens first arrow:10 Cuban Stevens takes first set 28-27 Tarundeep Rai : 9 Stevens :10 Tarundeep Rai : 9 Stevens : 8 Tarundeep Rai shoots first and it is 8 Stevens gets 9 Archery: Rahul Banerjee through to the next round Banerjee blanks the Mongolian 3 sets to nil as he shoots three straight 10s. Banerjee is leading by 2 sets. Boxing: Devendro Singh wins Click on the picture to read full story Devendro wins by knockout in Round 1. The youngster took just 2 minutes and 24 seconds to outclass his Honduras opponent. Devendro Singh defeated Molina Figueroa Bayron of Honduras in the light flyweight (49kg) category to enter the pre-quarters at London Olympics. Indian rowers on Monday fell out of the reckoning for a medal in the Olympics with Swarn Singh Virk finishing fourth in the quarterfinal round of the single sculls competition. Indian rowers out of medal reckoning Click on the picture to read full story In the men's lightweight double sculls, India's Sandeep Kumar and Manjeet Singh finished last in the six-team repechage round to end any chances of a podium finish. Swarn, who made it to the quarterfinals after competing in the repechage round, clocked 7:11.59s in the 2km race. Rowing: Sandeep-Manjeet finish last Sandeep Kumar-Manjeet Singh have finished last in their repechage with a time of 6:54.20. Sawarn Singh Sawarn Singh falter in Men`s Single Sculls Indian Rower Sawarn Singh will fight for placings in the semi-final of the Men`s Single Sculls after finishing 4th in the 3rd Quarterfinal. Men's 69kg weightlifting: Ravi Kumar crashes out Click on the picture to read full story Ravi Kumar has crashed out of the event. Ravi Kumar Katulu has a total lift of 303 kg (136kg in Snatch and 167 in Clean and Jerk) and he is lying currently in the 6th position after the Group stage. Archery: Chekrovolu Swuro loses in Rd of 32 Indian Archer Chekrovolu Swuro lost to Jennifer Nichols of USA in the Round of 32 in the women’s individual Archery. Badminton: Jwala-Diju duo loses Jwala Gutta and V Diju's campaign in the mixed doubles ended after losing to South Korea's Jung Eun Ha and Yong Dae Lee 0-2 in a group C encounter on Tuesday. The South Korean pair defeated the Indian duo 21-15, 21-15 in 24 minutes. Jwala Gutta and V Diju lost the first set 15-21. Jwala Gutta and V Diju face against South Korea's Jung Eun Ha and Yong Dae Lee in a group C match in the mixed doubles. Archery: Jayanta Talukdar crashes out India’s Jayanta Talukdar crashed out of men’s individual archery event after he lost to USA’s Wukie Jacobs 0-6 on Tuesday. Jacobs won the first set 27-22 and went on to seal the other two to oust the Indian. Jacobs fired six 10's against Talukdar’s one in the match. Badminton: Kashyap wins in style Parupalli Kashyap defeated Tien Minh Nguyen of Vietnam 21-9, 21-14 in men`s singles group D badminton match to enter pre-quarters on Tuesday. Update 3: Midway through the second set, Kashyap leads 11-7. Update 2: Parupalli Kashyap wrapped up the first game in style against Tien Minh Nguyen 21-9. He claimed the first game in 16 minutes. With a win in the next game he will move to pre-quarters. Update 1: Group D match between Parupalli Kashyap and Tien Minh Nguyen is underway. Parupalli Kashyap faces world no 10-ranked Tien Minh Nguyen of Vietnam in men`s singles group D badminton match. Kashyap started off the campaign defeating Belgian`s Tan Yuhan 21-14, 21-12.