Nepal’s judo player Manita Shrestha Pradhan will face Marica Perisic of Serbia in the women’s 57 kg weight category Elimination Round of 32 at the Paris Olympics on Monday.

Shrestha Pradhan has been drawn in Pool A in the women’s judo competition which will be held at the Grand Palais Ephemere in Paris.

If Shrestha Pradhan beats the Serbian, she will meet the winners between Mariama Koroma of Sierra Leone and Lien Chen-ling of Chinese Taipei in the round of 16.

Shrestha Pradhan secured her place at the Olympics through continental quota based on Olympic point rankings.

Nepal has sent seven athletes to Paris 2024.

Table tennis player Santoo Shrestha and badminton’s Prince Dahal are in action on Saturday.

Nepal is making its debut in both badminton and table tennis in Paris.

Santoo, who is the only third Nepali player to qualify for the Olympics via qualification tournament after taekwondo’s Sangina Baidya (Athens 2004) and Deepak Bista (Beijing 2008), will face Diaw Ibrahima of Senegal in the men’s singles preliminary round.

Santoo will progress to the round of 16 if he beats Ibrahima.

Dahal, who entered the Paris 2024 on universality spot, will meet world number two Viktor Axelsen of Denmark in his opening game of Group P, which also includes Ireland’s Nhat Nguyen and Israel’s Misha Zilberman.

A total of 41 players (from 36 countries)—split into 13 groups of three or four—are competing in the men’s singles badminton. The group winners will advance to the knockout stage. Each game of the round-robin tournament will be played in a best-of-three format.

Shooter Sushmita Nepal is competing in the women’s 10 m air rifle, which will be held on Sunday.

Swimmers Duana Lama and Alexander Shah will compete in women’s 200 m freestyle and men’s 100 m freestyle events, respectively.

Lama is in action on Sunday while Shah will contest on Tuesday.

Long-distance runner Santoshi Shrestha will participate in the women's marathon on August 11, the final day of Paris 2024.