Rio Olympics 2016, Day 1: As it happened...

Shooters continue to disappoint with Jitu Rai shockingly finishing 8th in the men's 10m air pistol event.

New Delhi: Welcome to our live blog for Day 1 of the 2016 Rio Olympics. Track the performance of the Indian contingent with all the latest updates right here.

08: 30 AM IST: In another disappointing result for India, in women's mixed doubles, Sania Mirza and her partner Prarthana Thombare lost in the women’s doubles after a marathon match against China’s Shuai Peng-Shuai Zhang. 

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8:05 AM IST: Australian Women's 4x100m Freestyle Relay team creates new world record with 3:30.65 timing.

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7:27 AM IST: World Record for Hungarian Katinka Hosszu. That was one swimmer show in Women's IM.

Congrats Katinka Hosszú on breaking WR in women's individual medley and winning gold! Time = 4:26.36 #HUN #Olympics pic.twitter.com/78W3cwrlNe

— Olympics (@Olympics) August 7, 2016

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7:10 AM IST: Australia`s Mack Horton wins Men`s 400m freestyle beating China`s 2012 champion Sun Yang.

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7:05 AM IST: Kosuke Hagino wins Men's 400m Individual Medley gold medal, ahead of American Chase Kalisz and Japanese compatriot Daiya Seto

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6:45 AM IST: Sania Mirza and Prarthana Thombare lose 6(6)-7, 7-5, 5-7 to Chinese pair of Shuai Peng and Shuai Zhang in women's doubles first round.

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6:35 AM IST: American Venus Williams shocked by Kirsten Flipkens of Belgium in women's singles first round in three sets.

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5:40 AM IST: Sania-Prarthana win the second set, 7-5 to force a decider.

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5:38 AM IST: As expected Thai Sopita Tanasan won the gold medal with a combined lift of 200 kg, 8 more than second placed Sri Hahyuni Agustiani of Indonesia. Both are 21-year-olds. Japanese veteran Hiromi Miyake (188kg) won the bronze with a stunning third lift.

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5:32 AM IST: Not the Dream Team, beat good enough to humiliate China. USA beat China 119-62 in Men's basketball Group A match.

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5:26 AM IST: Mirabai failed to register a single lift in clean and jerk and is out of the competition.

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5:23 AM IST: It seemed, women's 48kg weightlifting gold medal is already settled with Thailand's Sopita Ranasan lifting a combined weight of 198kg. And Mirabai failed her second lift in clean and jerk too. This time, she was attempting 106 kg.

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5:15 AM IST: Mirabai fails her first attempt. 104 kg.

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4:55 AM IST: Meanwhile, Sania and Prarthana lost the first set 6(6)-7 to to Chinese pair of Zhang-Peng in Women's doubles.

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4:45 AM IST: Vietnam's Thi Huyen Vuong failed to register a single lift in the snatch, and was ousted thus leaving only four competitors effectively for Mirabai to beat in the clean and jerk.

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4:35 AM IST: Mirabai sixth at the end of snatch round, 10 kg behind leader Sopita Tanasan of Thailand. The 21-year-old Thai destroyed the field, so far.

Mirabai's entry was 190 kg, as against Sopita's 200.

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4:20 AM IST: Sharath Kamal becomes the fourth Indian to make a first-round exit in singles Table Tennis. He lost to Romanian Crisan 8-11, 12-14, 11-9, 6-11, 8-11.

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4:18 AM IST: Saikhom Mirabai successfully fails to lift 84kg and her snatch tally stands at 82 kg. Not a good lift.

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4:10 AM IST: Saikhom Mirabai successfully lifts 82 kg in her 2nd attempt in snatch in Women's 48kg. Some time coming from the Manipuri.

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3:30 AM IST: Women's 48kg weightlifting final coming up. Saikhom Mirabai Chanu is bidding to become first Indian medallist in at Rio 2016.

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2:45 AM IST: Emese Szasz of Hunagary defeated Italian Rossella Fiamingo 15-13 to win Women's epee fencing gold medal. Sun Yiwen (CHN) defeated Lauren Rembi (FRA) 15-13 in bronze medal match.

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2:13 AM IST: First gold medal for Russia. Beslan Mudranov defeated Yeldos Smetov (KAZ) in the final of Men's 60kg Judo.

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01:25 AM IST: Soumyajit Ghosh crashes out of men's singles Table Tennis competition, losing his 1st-round match to Thailand's Padasak 8-11, 6-11, 14-12,6-11, 11-13

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12:30 AM IST: First ever Olympics Gold Medal for Vietnam! Xuan Hoang wins Men's 10m Air Pistol. Brazil's Felipe Wu and Pang Wei settled for silver and bronze medals respectively.

Minutes ago, Greg Van Avermaet of Belgium won Men's Road Race gold medal.

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12:28 AM IST: Meanwhile, Great Britain's Adam Peaty breaks world record world of 100m breaststroke in heat. That's second world broken on Day 1, after  Kim Woojin's recurve history.

#GBR's @adam_peaty breaks world record of 100m breaststroke in heat. Will there be more? #swimming #RioRecords pic.twitter.com/mJOr8NUAC5

— Rio 2016 (@Rio2016_en) August 6, 2016

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The 29-year-old Olympics debutant will need to do better than a eighth place finish in his favourite 50m event to make the first Games worth remembering.

12:07 AM IST: Jitu eliminated. The Army man could only produced 78.7 after 8 rounds of shooting in what has been a very very tight final, which also has the Olympic legends like Jongoh Jin of South Korea and Pang Wei of China. Jin won the gold medal at 2012 London Games, and was the silver medallist in Beijing 2008, losing to home favourite Wei.

Wei is often considered the heir to Chinese great Yifu Wang, the only male shooter to have won two gold medals 10 metre air pistol.

# Jitu Rai will feature in the Finals at midnight IST. Stay Tuned!

# Jitu Rai qualifies for 10m air pistol final with scores of 96, 96, 98, 96, 96, 98.

# Dramatic! Jitu Rai makes it to the final of Mens Air Pistol.

# Jitu Rai currently at 9th, only three shots left. Can he do it?

# Gurpreet Singh out of contention for Finals of 10m Air Pistol. His journey ends wih 576 pts in Qualification

# Jitu Rai with a 96 in the 5th series. Need spectacular effort now to have any chance of qualifying.

# Italy's Carmine Tommasone has become the first pro boxer to win a bout in Olympics

# 96,96,98,96, 96. Jitu shoots 98 and above to make it

Congratulations to the Indian Men's #Hockey team on their first win at #Rio2016 @TheHockeyIndia @FIH_Hockey

— sachin tendulkar (@sachin_rt) August 6, 2016

# Top 8 will qualify for the finals. Jitu Rai needs to produce magic.

# Jitu Rai scores 96 in 4th series to be at 11th spot now.

# Gurpreet Singh bags another 99 in the 5th series, jumps to 17th spot

Loud blast heard near Olympics cycling course, bomb squad on site

# Just wow! Gurpreet Singh with an awesome 99 in the fourth series, rises to 25 in the rankings.

# Gurpreet Singh is currently sits 41st with scores of 94, 96, 93 in 1st 3 series

# Jitu Rai now into the top 10 with a score of 98 in the third series.

# Jitu Rai with another 96 pointer in the second series. He stands at 20th spot in the rankings.

# In the second series, Gurpreet Singh shoots 96 and currently stands at 36 in the rankings.

# Jitu Rai shoots 96 in the first series and ranked 11th out of the 46 shooters in qualifying.

Meanwhile, USA shooter Virginia Thrasher has clinched first gold of Rio Games.

# Manika Batra crashes out of the Table Tennis Women's Singles event. Grzybowska-Franc progress with a 4-2 win.

# Men's 10m air pistol qualification round next with Jitu Rai and Gurpreet Singh in action

FULL TIME: #IND hold on to their nerves, beat #IRL 3-2 #Hockey #Rio2016https://t.co/tVeogZNtn6?

— Zee News Sports (@ZeeNewsSports) August 6, 2016

# Manika Batra loses fifth game 11-4. She has to win both of the remaining games to qualify for the second round. 

# Tennis results so far: 1992 QF, 1996 Rd 2, 2000 Rd 2, 2004 4th, 2008 QF, 2012 Rd 2, 2016 Rd 1

FT! The Indian Men's #Hockey Team begin their #Rio2016 campaign with a spectacular win against @irishhockey! pic.twitter.com/VoZ9WgEOBE

— Hockey India (@TheHockeyIndia) August 6, 2016

# Manika Batra has leveled the tie with an 11-8 win in the fourth game. Its now 2-2.

# Horror result! Leander Paes & Rohan Bopanna lose to Lukasz Kubot & Marcin Matkowski 6-4, 7-6 in the Round of 32.

# FULL TIME: India hold on to beat Ireland 3-2.

# It's getting nervy at the end of the match. India 3-2 Ireland

# Table Tennis - Manika Batra lose 14-12 in the third game. She now trails 2-1

# Break! Paes-Bopanna break the Polish duo. India now serving for the 2nd set.

# Yes they did! Ireland now just one goal away from drawing level. 5 mins of play left.

# Penalty corner to Ireland. Can they pull another one back?

# Grzybowska-Franc fights back to win the second game 11-6 against Manika Batra. 1-1 now - Table Tennis

# Table Tennis - Manika Batra wins her first game 12-10 in the Women's Singles event

# Poland pair 5-4 up in the second set. Paes-Bopanna with the task of holding serve to keep India's hopes alive.

# GOAL! India get their third goal. Again, a penalty corner.

# Paes-Bopanna equal the 2nd set at 3-3. What a nail-biting encounter this is.

# Ireland get one back, John Germyn scores from the penalty corner. India need to tighten up before it's too late.

# Setback! Mouma Das eliminated in the 1st Round of the Women's Singles Table Tennis event. 

# 3rd quarter underway, Ireland just miss a chance to draw one back.

# Table Tennis - Mouma Das finds herself 3-0 down. She lost the third game 11-7

# Lukasz Kubot-Marcin Matkowski now 1-0 up in the 2nd set. Paes-Bopanna need to step-up!

# Poland's Lukasz Kubot-Marcin Matkowski win the 1st set 6-4.

# End of Quarter two. India 2-0 Ireland. 

# Poland hold their serve to go 5-4 up against India's Paes-Bopanna in the 1st set.

# Paes-Bopanna leading 4-3 in the 1st set. Scintillating match!

# Table Tennis - Mouma Das lose the first game of her opening round clash with Monteiro Daniela 11-2.

# Two up now! India get their second goal with the help of another penalty corner.

# Paes-Bopanna now lead 3-2 in the 1st set of the Men's doubles tennis event.

# VR Raghunath was the scorer for India's opening goal against Ireland.

Meanwhile, Mouma Das's 1st round match in the Women's Table Tennis Singles is delayed. Stay tuned for further information

# Paes and Bopanna are level at 2-2 in the 1st set of the men's doubles tennis match.

# Breakthrough! India get their first goal, on 3rd successive penalty corner. BRAVO..

# Two more penalty corners to India, unsuccessful yet again.

Later today, shooter Jitu Rai will be in action, gunning for glory in the 10m air pistol event alongside Gurpreet Singh

# Penalty corner to India but no success.

# It's all possession for India so far, but not enough to create chances.

# India applying early pressure but yet to break the Irish defense after 6 mins of play.

# National anthems over, it's time for the action to begin.

# Indian Hockey team open Group B campaign against Ireland. Who far can they go?

# Disappointing start to Day 1 but stay tuned as India's Men's hockey team start their action at 7:30 PM IST.

# China's Du Li shot Olympic record 420.7 to claim top spot in women's 10m air rifle qualifiers.

# Apurvi Chandela finishes 34th and Ayonika Paul 43rd in the women's 10m Air Rifle event. India fail to reach the finals.

# Women's 10m Air Rifle more or less over for India.

# Series 4: Ayonika Paul scores (98.0) and is ranked 43. Apurvi Chandela scores (101.4) andstands at 34.

# Apurvi scores 103.3 in series 3 and is ranked 20th. Ayonika Paul scored a 102.5.

# Four series remain in women's 10m air rifle today.

# Ayonika Paul (32nd) scores (102.5). Total score stands at (309).

# After 3rd series, Apurvi Chandela (22nd) scores (103.3). Total score stands at (310.2).

# Ayonika Paul (257.4) and Apurvi Chandela ​(268.4) ranked 29 and 31 after series 2.

# Both Chandela and Ayonika are on 185.6 after firing second series of shots

That means Dattu Bhokanal is through to the quarterfinals of the Men's Singles Sculls. Great work, Dattu. #Rowing #Rio2016 #IND

— Dept of Sports MYAS (@IndiaSports) August 6, 2016

# Dattu Bhokanal is now through to the quarter-finals stage.

# Update from rowing! Dattu Bhokanal finishes 3rd in Heat 1 of the men's individual sculls event.

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Men's sculls, Men's Hockey, Men's and Mixed Doubles Tennis, Men's and Women's Table Tennis - all of these events start off on Day 1at Rio de Janeiro. 

Stay tuned for all the latest updates from the Olympic Games, with the event beginning with Women's 10m air rifle and Men's sculls.

India's female shooters Ayonika Paul and Apurvi Chandela will be in action along with rower Dattu Bhokanal.

Top medal prospects Jitu Rai, Leader Paes-Rohan Bopanna also feature later in the day.