{"id":104626,"date":"2021-07-24T12:56:21","date_gmt":"2021-07-24T12:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=104626"},"modified":"2021-07-24T12:57:57","modified_gmt":"2021-07-24T12:57:57","slug":"disappointing-start-for-pakistan-at-tokyo-olympics-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=104626","title":{"rendered":"Disappointing start for Pakistan at Tokyo Olympics 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Gulfam.jpg\" width=\"742\" height=\"486\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>TOKYO: Pakistan&#8217;s national badminton champion, Mahoor Shahzad lost her opening match against Japan&#8217;s Akane Yamaguchi by 2-0 on Day 1 of the Tokyo Olympics 2020 here at Olympic Stadium.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mahoor was under pressure against dominant world number 5 Yamaguchi throughout the match. The opponent won the first set of best of three by 21-3 in just 10 minutes. The next set was wrapped up by the Japanese at 21-8 to win the game. A little resistance was shown by Mahoor in the second set but overall, her Japanese counterpart outclassed her in the opening contest.<\/p>\n<p>Mahoor will now face Britain&#8217;s Kirsty Gilmour in her second and last match in the event on July 27.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, Pakistani shooter Gulfam Joseph missed qualification to the next round by finishing at ninth in men\u2019s 10m AirPistol Qualifications with 578 points. India&#8217;s Saurabh Chaudhary topped the qualifying round with a score of 586.<\/p>\n<p>It must be noted here that as many as 10 Pakistan athletes are currently in Tokyo for Olympics 2020 participation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Schedule of Pakistani athletes for July 25<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Weightlifting;<\/strong>\u00a0Talha Talib in men\u2019s 67kg at 3:50 pm\u00a0(PST)<\/p>\n<h4><strong>READ:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/heres-complete-schedule-pakistani-athletes-tokyo-olympics-2020\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Here\u2019s complete schedule of Pakistani athletes in Tokyo Olympics 2020<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>TOKYO: Pakistan&#8217;s national badminton champion, Mahoor Shahzad lost her opening match against Japan&#8217;s Akane Yamaguchi by 2-0 on Day 1 of the Tokyo Olympics 2020 <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=104626\" title=\"Disappointing start for Pakistan at Tokyo Olympics 2020\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104626"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104626"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104628,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104626\/revisions\/104628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}