Olympics Highlights: Avinash Sable finishes 11th in men's 3000m steeplechase finals

Athletics

Mixed Marathon Walk Relay (Medal round): Priyanka Goswami and Suraj Panwar - 11.00 am

Men's High Jump (Qualification): Sarvesh Kushare - 1.35 pm

Women's Javelin Throw (Qualification): Annu Rani - 1.55 pm

Women's 100m Hurdles (Round 1): Jyothi Yarraji (Heat 4) -- 2.09 pm

Men's Triple Jump (Qualification): Praveen Chithravel and Abdulla Aboobacker Narangolintevida -- 10.45 pm

Men's 3,000m Steeplechase: Avinash Sable -- 1.13 am (Thursday)

Golf

Women's Individual (Finals): Aditi Ashok and Diksha Dagar -- 12.30 pm

Table tennis

Women's Team (Quarter-final): India (Sreeja Akula, Manika Batra and Archana Girish Kamath) vs Germany -- 1.30 pm

Wrestling

Women's Freestyle 53kg (1/8 Finals): Antim Panghal vs Zyenep Yetgil -- 3.05 pm

Weightlifting

Women's 49kg (Medal round): Saikhom Mirabai Chanu -- 11.00 pm.

. Star pistol shooter Manu Bhaker landed back in the country on Wednesday after her historic feat of winning two medals in a single edition of the Olympic Games and was welcomed by hundreds of supporters and her family, who braved a steady drizzle to give her a memorable reception here.

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. India's hopes of winning a gold medal at the Paris Olympics suffered a huge setback as Vinesh Phogat was disqualified for being overweight after qualifying for the finals of the women's 50 kg wrestling event.

. "It is with regret that the Indian contingent shares news of the disqualification of Vinesh Phogat from the Women’s Wrestling 50kg class. Despite the best efforts by the team through the night, she weighed in a few grams over 50kg this morning. No further comments will be made by the contingent at this time. The Indian team requests you respect Vinesh’s privacy. It would like to focus on the competitions on hand", the Indian Olympic Association said in a statement.

. China's Deng Lijuan took the silver and Poland's Aleksandra Kalucka won the bronze.

. Ecuador held on for silver, while Australia took bronze.

. Anne-Marie Rindom of Denmark secured silver, while Line Flem Hoest of Norway did enough in the medal race to win bronze.

. Silver went to Pavlos Kontides of Cyprus and bronze was won by Stefano Peschiera of Peru.

. Theerapong Silachai of Thailand claimed silver and Hampton Morris of the United States took bronze.

. American Tom Schaar got silver and Brazilian Augusto Akio took bronze.

. The Brits took silver while Italy clinched bronze.

. Greek pole vaulter Eleni-Klaoudia Polak was disqualified from the Olympics and handed a provisional suspension at the Paris Games after she tested positive for banned substances, the IOC said on Wednesday.

The Greek Olympic Committee said on Tuesday that one member of its team was expelled from the athletes' village but her identity was previously unknown.

The team had been informed of the violation by Greece's anti-doping agency on Monday, the same day she competed in the qualification round.

Polak cleared a height of 4.20 metres but did not reach Wednesday's final as she failed to get over 4.40. She was listed as "DQ" in the results.

Polak said she was innocent of any wrongdoing.

"A few days ago something was found in my sample," she told reporters in the mixed zone after competing in the preliminary round on Monday.

"I have never taken supplements or protein. It was below the level of what is banned so that is why I competed. I have an issue with iron and have to eat red meat daily and that must have been in the meat. I only know that the meat contained that substance." ( Reuters )

. The United States won the gold medal in the Olympic track cycling women's team pursuit for the first time as they beat New Zealand in the final at the national Velodrome on Wednesday.

Britain defeated Italy to take the bronze medal. ( Reuters )

. Portugal's Pedro Pichardo looked casual in a backward cap as he cruised through triple jump qualifiers, ready to defend his Olympic gold in Friday's final against challengers including Spain's Jordan Diaz and Burkina Faso's Hugues Fabrice Zango.

Pichardo leapt 17.44 metres on his first attempt, the best jump of the night and easily clearing the 17.10 qualifying standard.

Diaz had a confident start too on his Olympic debut, kicking off with a 17.24 jump. The 23-year-old, who was born in Cuba but moved to Spain to train and became a national, holds the world lead this year and looks to be the biggest threat to Pichardo.

Diaz leapt 18.18 metres, the third best jump of all time and just 11cm short of the world record, in Rome in June - beating Pichardo's 18.04 at the same event. ( Reuters )

. China won the gold medal in team artistic swimming at the Paris Olympics on Wednesday.

The United States took the silver medal and Spain the bronze.

. Japan's Nao Kusaka won the gold in the men's 77kg Greco-Roman wrestling at the Paris Olympics on Wednesday, while Demeu Zhadrayev of Kazakhstan claimed silver.

Armenia's Malkhas Amoyan and Kyrgyzstan's Akzhol Makhmudov took bronze. ( Reuters )

. Quincy Hall of the United States won the men's Olympic 400 metres gold medal on Wednesday

Britain's Matthew Hudson-Smith took the silver and Muzal Samukonga of Zambia the bronze. ( Reuters )

. Jamaica's Roje Stona won gold in the men's Olympic discus on Wednesday.

Lithuania's Mykolas Alekna took silver and Australia's Matthew Denny claimed the bronze. ( Reuters )

. Hou Zhihui of China won the gold medal in the Olympic women's 49kg weightlifting on Wednesday.

Mihaela Cambei of Romania took silver and Thailand's Surodchana Khambao claimed bronze. ( Reuters )

. Taiwan's Lin Yu-ting, one of two boxers at the centre of a gender dispute at the Paris Olympics, beat Turkey's Esra Yildiz in the women's featherweight semi-finals on Wednesday.

Lin, twice world champion, and Algerian boxer Imane Khelif have been in the spotlight at the Olympics over a gender row that has dominated headlines and been the subject of much discussion on social media platforms. (Reuters )

. Morocco's Soufiane El Bakkali won the gold medal in the Olympic men's 3,000 metres steeplechase on Wednesday.

American Kenneth Rooks took silver and Kenya's Abraham Kibiwot claimed bronze. ( Reuters )

. Erislandy Alvarez of Cuba beat France's Sofiane Oumiha by split decision in the final of the boxing men's lightweight category at the Paris Olympics on Wednesday.

Canada's Wyatt Sanford and Georgian Lasha Guruli claimed the two bronze medals on offer after losing their semi-final bouts against Oumiha and Alvarez respectively.