India's participation in 2012 Olympics

India in 2012 Olympics

 India is participating in 13 Sporting events. It is expected that India will show its best Olympic Show in London. The Indian government launched "OPEX 2012" for this sporting games. Approximately Rs. 258.309 crore is spent for this from April 2011. 28 foreign coaches are included for this.

(01) Shooting:-

390 shooters will vie for the top honours in 15 across Men’s and Women’s rifle, Pistol and Shotgun events. India will have a record of 11 shooters including 4 women, in 2012 Olympics.

[Women’s events in shooting added in Los Angeles Olympics (1984)]

SHOOTING
MEN
#	Players	Events
1	Abhinav Bindra	10m air rifle
2	Gagan Narang
3	Vijay Kumar	25m Rapid Fire Pistol
	Gagan Narang	50m Rifle 3 Position
4	Sanjeev Rajput
	Gagan Narang	50m Rifle Prone
5	Joydeep Karmakar
6	Manavjit Singh Sandhu	Trap
7	Ronjan Sodhi	Double Trap
WOMEN
8	Anuraj Singh	10m Air Pistol
9	Heena Sidhu
10	Rahi Sarnobat	25m Pistol
11	Shagun Choudhry	Trap

(02) Rowing:-

ROWING
MEN
#	Players	Events
1	Swarn Singh Virk	Single Sculls
2	Sandeep Kumar	Light Weight Double Sculls
3	Manjeet Singh

(03) Swimming:-

SWIMMING
MEN
#	Players	Events
1	Gagan Ullaimath	Men’s 1500m Freestyle

 (04) Judo:-

JUDO
WOMEN
#	Players	Events
1	Garima Chaudhary	Women’s 63 Kg

(05) Weightlifting:-

WEIGHTLIFTING
MEN
#	Players	Events
1	Katulu Ravi Kumar	Men 69 Kg
WOMEN
2	NSoniya Chanu	Women 48 Kg

(06) Athletics:-

          India is yet to won a track and field medal at the Olympics. The best performances by Indians at the Games are the fourth-place finishes recorded by Milka Singh (men’s 400m at the 1960 Rome Olympics) and   P T Usha (women’s 400m hurdles at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics)

ATHLETICS
MEN
#	Players	Events
1	Renjith Maheswary	Triple Jump
2	Om Prakash Singh Karhana	Shot Put
3	Vikas Gowda	Discus Throw
4	Ram Singh Yadav	Marathon
5	Gurmeet Singh	20Km Walk
6	Bajinder Singh
7	K T Irfan
8	Basant Bahadur Rana	50Km Walk
WOMEN
9	Tintu Luka	800m
10	Sudha Singh	3000m Steeplechase
11	Sahana Kumari	High Jump
12	Krishna Poonia	Discus Throw
13	Seema Atil
14	Mayookha Johny	Triple Jump

(07) Table Tennis:-

TABLE TENNIS
MEN
#	Players	Events
1	Saumyajit Ghosh	Men’s Singles
WOMEN
2	Anikta Das	Women’s Singles

(08) Archery:-

          Archery made Olympic debut in 1900 Paris Olympics and was dropped from 1908 London Olympics. Then returned for a single appearance in 1920. After a 52-year gap, the sport was reintroduced at Munich in 1972.

ARCHERY
MEN
#	Players	Events
1	Jayanta Talukdar	Men Team Event and Individual Event
2	Rahul Banerjee
3	Tarundeep Rai
WOMEN
4	Deepika Kumari	Women Team Event and Individual Event
5	Bombayla Devi
6	Chekrovolu Swuro

(09) Tennis:-

          India will be represented in London by a team of 7 players. Wild card entrant and 20120 CWG and Asian Games gold medallist Somdev will figure in Men’s Singles

TENNIS
#	Players	Events
1	Somdev Devvarman	Men’s Singles
2	Mahesh Bhupathi	Men’s Doubles
3	Rohan Boppana
4	Leander Paes	Men’s Doubles
5	Vishnu Vardhan
6	Sania Mirza	Women’s Doubles
7	Rushmi Chakravathi
	Sania Mirza	Mixed Doubles
	Leander Paes

(10) Wrestling:-

          Women’s wrestling joined the Olympic from 2004 Athens.

WRESTLING
MEN
#	Players	Events
1	Amit Kumar	55kg Freestyle
2	Yogeshwar Dutt	60Kg Freestyle
3	Sushil Kumar	66Kg Freestyle
4	Narsingh Panchim Yadav	74Kg Freestyle
WOMEN
5	Geeta Phogat @	55Kg Freestyle

Note: @--> First ever Indian woman to compete in Olympics in Wrestler

(11) Boxing:-

          Women boxing are being introduced for first time in Olympics now only. Expectations are much high on India’s Mary Kom as she is the current World Cup championship.

BOXING
MEN
#	Players	Events
1	Devendro Singh	49Kg Light Fly
2	Shiv Thapa #	56Kg Bantam
3	Jai Bhagwan	60Kg Light
4	Manoj Kumar	64Kg Light welter
5	Vikas Krishnan	69Kg Welter
6	VIjender Singh	75Kg Middle
7	Sumit Sangwan	81Kg Light Heavy
WOMEN
8	Mary Kom	51Kg Fly

Note: # à youngest ever Indian boxer to qualify for London Olympics

(12) Badminton:-

          It is the only sport in Olympics which Asian countries are dominated. China, India and South Korea have won 23 medals of the 24 gold medals awarded since the sport’s first appearance at the Games.

BADMINTON
MEN
#	Players	Events
1	P. Kashyap	Men’s Singles
2	Saina Nehwal	Women’s Singles
3	Jwala Dutta	Women’s Doubles
4	Ashwini Ponnappa
5	V. Diju	Mixed Doubles
	Jwala Dutta

(13) Hockey:-

          Will India regain its supremacy in its National Game? The only nation in the world which is not shining in it’s own national game but mad of other game (Cricket). Let’s wait and see…