India at the 2008 Summer Olympics

India at the Olympic Games

Flag of India – Flag bearers
IOC code  IND
NOC Indian Olympic Association
Website www.olympic.ind.in
At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing
Competitors 57 in 13 sports
Flag bearer Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore (opening)
Vijender Kumar[1] (closing)
Medals
Rank: 50		 Gold
1		 Silver
0		 Bronze
2		 Total
3
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India competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, People's Republic of China. India was represented by the Indian Olympic Association (IOA). A contingent of 56 athletes represented India, and they had a support-staff of 42 officials. The athletics contingent was the largest, with 17 athletes.[2]

For the first time since 1928, the Indian Men's Hockey Team was unable to take part in the Summer Olympics due to its failure to qualify. A two-year ban imposed by the International Weightlifting Federation after the 2006 Commonwealth Games doping scandal originally resulted in only one Olympic weightlifter, Monika Devi from India being scheduled to compete, but she too failed a drug test, and was also withdrawn. However, on August 9 it was declared she was clean, but the event she was supposed to participate in, had already closed.[3]

On August 11, 2008, Abhinav Bindra won the gold medal in the men's 10m air rifle shooting event. In doing so, he won the first ever individual gold medal for India, and the first medal in any event for India at the Beijing Games. The previous highest individual achievements for India were two silver medals won by Norman Pritchard, an Englishman born in India representing Great Britain, at the 1900 Paris Olympics and one silver medal won by the 2008 flagbearer Rajyavardhan Rathore at the 2004 Athens Olympics. Sushil Kumar won the second ever wrestling medal for India, the first being the bronze earned by Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav in the 1952 Helsinki Olympics. Vijender Kumar won a bronze medal in the middleweight boxing category, having lost in the semifinals. This was India's first-ever Olympic medal in boxing.

The 2008 Beijing Olympics saw the best ever performance by an Indian contingent, in terms of the number of medals. They won three medals in all (one gold and two bronze medals), surpassing the two silvers by Norman Pritchard in 1900 Paris Olympics [4] and the gold and bronze medals won by the Indian field hockey team and Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav respectively, at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics.

Contents

Medalists

Main article: 2008 Summer Olympics medal count
Medal Name Sport Event
 Gold Abhinav Bindra Shooting Men's 10 m air rifle
 Bronze Sushil Kumar Wrestling Men's freestyle 66 kg
 Bronze Vijender Kumar Boxing Middleweight 75 kg

Contingent India in sport

Sport men women events Medals
Archery 1 3 4
Athletics 3 13 9
Badminton 1 1 2
Boxing 5 0 5 1  Bronze
Judo 0 2 2
Rowing 3 0 2
Shooting 7 2 14 1  Gold
Swimming 3 1 4
Table Tennis 1 1 2
Tennis 2 2 3
Wrestling 3 0 3 1  Bronze
Yachting/Sailing 1 0 1
12 sports 31 men 25 women 1  Gold 2  Bronze

Archery

Main articles: Archery at the 2008 Summer Olympics and Archery at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Qualification

Men

Athlete Event Ranking Round Round of 64 Round of 32 Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Final
Score Seed Opposition
Score		 Opposition
Score		 Opposition
Score		 Opposition
Score		 Opposition
Score		 Opposition
Score		 Rank
Mangal Singh Champia Individual 678 2  Hojjatolah (IRI) (63)

(Won 112-98)

  Badenov (RUS) (31)

(Lost 109-108)

 Did not advance

Women

Athlete Event Ranking Round Round of 64 Round of 32 Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Final
Score Seed Opposition
Score		 Opposition
Score		 Opposition
Score		 Opposition
Score		 Opposition
Score		 Opposition
Score		 Rank
Dola Banerjee Individual 633 31  Marie-Pier Beaudet (CAN) (34)

(Lost 108-108 : Tie Break 8-10)

 Did not advance
Bombayala Devi Individual 637 22  Iwona Marcinkiewicz (POL)

(Lost 101-103)

 Did not advance
Pranitha Vardhineni Individual 627 37  Jane Waller (AUS) (28)

(Won 106-100)

  Kwon Un Sil (PRK) (5)

(Lost 106-99)

 Did not advance
Dola Banerjee
Bombayala Devi
Pranitha Vardhineni		 Team 1897 6 Bye  China (CHN) (3)

(Lost 211-206)

 Did not advance 7

Athletics

Main article: Athletics at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Men

Athlete Event Qualification Final Rank
Time/Score Rank Time/Score Rank
Surendra Singh 10000m 28:13.97 26 26[5]
Vikas Gowda Discus Throw 60.69 22 Did not advance
Renjith Maheswary Men's Triple Jump 15.77 35 Did not advance

Women

Athlete Event Qualification Final
Time/Score Rank Time/Score Rank
Anju George Women's Long Jump XXX N/A Did not advance
Preeja Sreedharan Women's 10,000 Meters 32:34.64 25[6]
Harwant Kaur Women's Discus Throw 56.42 17 Did not advance
Krishna Poonia Women's Discus Throw 58.23 10 Did not advance
Mandeep Kaur Women's 400 Meters 52.88 6 Did not advance
Chitra K Soman
Raja M Pooyamma
Manjeet Kaur
Sini Jose
S Geetha		 Women's 4x400 Meter Relay 3:28.83 7 Did not advance

Women's Heptathlon

Main article: Athletics at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Women's heptathlon
Athlete 100m Hurdles High Jump Shot Put 200m Sprint Long Jump Javelin 800m Run Total
Time Points Height Points Distance Points Time Points Distance Points Distance Points Time Points Score[7] Rank
J. J. Shobha 13.62s 1033 1.65m 795 13.07m 732 24.62s 922 5.86m 807 43.50m 735 2:27.50s 725 5749 29
Susmita Singha Roy 14.11s 963 1.71m 867 11.27m 613 24.34s 948 5.98m 843 39.79m 663 2:21.14s 808 5705 32
Gudanda Pramila Ganapathy 13.97s 983 1.74m 903 11.66m 639 24.92s 894 6.11m 883 41.27m 692 2:23.46s 777 5771 27

Badminton

Main articles: Badminton at the 2008 Summer Olympics and Badminton at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Qualification

Men

Athlete Event Round of 64 Round of 32 Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Final
Opposition
Score		 Opposition
Score		 Opposition
Score		 Opposition
Score		 Opposition
Score		 Opposition
Score		 Rank
Anup Sridhar Singles  Vasconcelos (POR)

(Won 21-16 21-14[8])

  Sato (JPN)

(Lost 13-21 17-21[9])

 Did not advance

Women

Athlete Event Round of 64 Round of 32 Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Final
Opposition
Score		 Opposition
Score		 Opposition
Score		 Opposition
Score		 Opposition
Score		 Opposition
Score		 Rank
Saina Nehwal Singles  Diehl (RUS)she become first indian woman to reach quarterfinals of olympic games

(Won 21-9 21-8[10])

  Larisa Griga (UKR)

(Won 21-18 21-10[11])

  Wang Chen (HKG)

(Won 21-19 11-21 21-11[12])

  Yulianti (INA)

Lost 26-28 21-14 21-15[13]

 Did not advance

Boxing

Main articles: Boxing at the 2008 Summer Olympics and Boxing at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Qualification
Athlete Event Round of 32 Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Final Overall
Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Rank
Jitender Kumar Flyweight  Memis (TUR)
W (Opponent retired)		  Doniyorov (UZB)
W 13 : 6[14]		  Balakshin (RUS)
L 15 : 11[15]		 Did not advance
Akhil Kumar Bantamweight  Hallab (FRA)
W 12 : 5		  Vodopyanov (RUS)
W +9 : 9[16]		  Gojan (MDA)
L 10 : 3[17]		 Did not advance
Anthresh Lalit Lakra Featherweight  Sultonov (UZB)
L 9 : 5		 Did not advance
Vijender Kumar Middleweight  Badou (GAM)
W 13 : 2		  Chomphuphuang (THA)
W 13 : 3[18]		  Góngora (ECU)
W 9 : 4[19]		  Correa (CUB)
L 8 : 5[20]		 Did not advance  Bronze
Dinesh Kumar Light heavyweight  Benchabla (ALG)
L 3 : 23
(stopped by referee)[21]		 Did not advance

Judo

Main articles: Judo at the 2008 Summer Olympics and Judo at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Qualification

Women

Athlete Event Preliminary Round of 32 Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals First Repechage
Round		 Repechage
Quarterfinals		 Repechage
Semifinals		 Final
Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result
Khumujam Tombi Devi −48 kg  Ana Hormigo (POR) Lost Did not advance
Divya Tewar −78 kg  Yalennis Castillo (CUB)

(Lost[22])

 Did not advance  Sagat Abikeyeva (KAZ)

(Lost [23])

 Did not advance

Rowing

Main articles: Rowing at the 2008 Summer Olympics and Rowing at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Qualification

Men

Athlete(s) Event Heats Repechage Semifinals Final
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Bajranglal Takhar Single sculls 7:39.91 3 7:19.01 5 (SC/D) 7:23.00 4 (FD) 7:09.73 21
Devender Kumar
Manjeet Singh		 Lightweight
double sculls		 6:37.13 5 7:02.06 5 (SC/D) 6:40.34 3 (FC) 6:44.48 18

Sailing

Main articles: Sailing at the 2008 Summer Olympics and Sailing at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Qualification

Open

Athlete Event Race Score Rank
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Nachhatar Singh Johal Finn 4 24 23 24 11 24 18 24 Did not advance

Shooting

Main articles: Shooting at the 2008 Summer Olympics and Shooting at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Qualification

Men

Athlete Event Qualification Final Rank
Score Rank Score Total
Abhinav Bindra 10 m air rifle 596 4 104.5 700.5  Gold
Gagan Narang 10 m air rifle 595 9 Did not advance
50 m rifle Prone 589 35 Did not advance
50 m Rifle
Three Positions		 1167 13 Did not advance
Sanjeev Rajput 50 m rifle Prone 591 26 Did not advance
50 m Rifle
Three Positions		 1162 26 Did not advance
Samaresh Jung 10 m air pistol 570 42 Did not advance
50 m pistol 540 42 Did not advance
Mansher Singh Trap 69 8 Did not advance
Manavjit Singh Sandhu Trap 70 12 Did not advance
Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore Double trap 131 15 Did not advance

Women

Athlete Event Qualification Final Rank
Score Rank Score Total
Anjali Bhagwat 10 m air rifle 393 29 Did not advance
50 m rifle
three positions		 571 32 Did not advance
Avneet Kaur Sidhu 10 m air rifle 389 39 Did not advance
50 m rifle
three positions		 552 42 Did not advance

Swimming

Main article: Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Athlete Event Heat Semifinal Final
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Virdhawal Khade Men's 50 m freestyle 22.73 40 Did not advance
Men's 100 m freestyle 50.07 42 Did not advance
Men's 200 m freestyle 1:51.86 48 Did not advance
Sandeep Sejwal Men's 100 m breaststroke 1:02.19 38 Did not advance
Men's 200 m breaststroke 2:15.24 36 Did not advance
Ankur Poseria Men's 100m butterfly 54.74 57 Did not advance
Rehan Poncha Men's 200m butterfly 2:01.89 40 Did not advance

Table tennis

Main articles: Table tennis at the 2008 Summer Olympics and Table tennis at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Qualification

Men

Athlete Event Preliminary round Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round 4 Quarterfinals Semifinals Final
Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result
Achanta Sharath Kamal Singles  Carneros Alfredo (ESP)

won 4-2 [24]

  Chen Weixing (AUT)
L 4-1		 Did not advance

Women

Athlete Event Preliminary round Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round 4 Quarterfinals Semifinals Final
Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result
Neha Aggarwal Singles  Lay Jian Fang (AUS)

lost 4-1 (12-10, 8-11, 11-13, 8-11, 4-11)[25]

 Did not advance

Tennis

Main articles: Tennis at the 2008 Summer Olympics and Tennis at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Qualification

Men

Athlete Event Round of 64 Round of 32 Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Final
Opposition Score Opposition Score Opposition Score Opposition Score Opposition Score Opposition Score Rank
Mahesh Bhupathi
Leander Paes		 Doubles  G Monfils (FRA)
 G Simon (FRA)		 Won
6-3,6-3 [26]		  SA Andre (BRA)
 Marcelo Melo (BRA)		 Won
6-4,6-2 [27]		  R Federer (SUI)
 S Wawrinka (SUI)		 Lost
2-6 4-6[28]		 Did not advance

Women

Athlete Event Round of 64 Round of 32 Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Final
Opposition Score Opposition Score Opposition Score Opposition Score Opposition Score Opposition Score Rank
Sania Mirza Singles  Benešová (CZE) Lost
1-6 1-2 (ret)[29]		 Did not advance
Sania Mirza
Sunitha Rao		 Doubles  T Golovin (FRA)
 P Parmentier (FRA)		 (w/o)  S Kuznetsova (RUS)
 D Safina (RUS)		 Lost
4-6 4-6[30]		 Did not advance

Wrestling

Main articles: Wrestling at the 2008 Summer Olympics and Wrestling at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Qualification
Men's Freestyle
Athlete Event Qualification 1/8 Final Quarterfinals Semifinals Final Repechage Round 1 Repechage Round 2 Bronze Medal Final Rank
Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result
Yogeshwar Dutt 60 kg  Orazgaliyev (KAZ)

Won 8-2

  Yumoto (JPN)

Lost 3-6

 Did not advance -
Sushil Kumar 66 kg  Stadnik (UKR)

Lost 8-1 [31]

 Did not advance  Schwab (USA)

Won 3-1 [32]

  Batyrov (BLR)

Won 3-1 [33]

  Spiridonov (KAZ)

Won 3-1[34]

  Bronze
Rajiv Tomar 120 kg  Mocco (USA)

Lost 0-4 [35]

 Did not advance -

See also

References

  1. ^ Indias Flag Bearer for the closing ceremony
  2. ^ "India names 57-member squad for Beijing Olympics". Press Trust Of India. CNN-IBN. Aug 12, 2008. http://ibnlive.in.com/news/india-names-57member-squad-for-beijing-olympics/69524-5.html. Retrieved May 19, 2011. 
  3. ^ "Indian lifter fails drug test". CBC Sports. August 5, 2008. http://www.cbc.ca/olympics/weightlifting/story/2008/08/05/doping-devi.html. Retrieved August 5, 2008. 
  4. ^ http://www.olympic.org/uk/athletes/results/search_r_uk.asp?KEYWORD=Pritchard&x=0&y=0&RESULT=TRUE&KEYWORDS=%22Pritchard*%22
  5. ^ [1]
  6. ^ Women's 10,000m Finals Results
  7. ^ [2]
  8. ^ Vasconcelos V Sridhar Badminton Match result
  9. ^ Sato V Sridhar Badminton Match result
  10. ^ Diehl V Nehwal Badminton Match result
  11. ^ Griga V Nehwal Badminton Match result
  12. ^ Chen V Nehwal Badminton Match result
  13. ^ Yulianti V Nehwal Badminton Match result
  14. ^ Doniyorov V J.Kumar Boxing Flyweight Result
  15. ^ Balakshin V J.Kumar Boxing Flyweight Result
  16. ^ Vodopyanov V A.Kumar Boxing Bantamweight Result
  17. ^ Gojan V Akhil Kumar Boxing Bantamweight quarterfinal result
  18. ^ Chomphuphuang V V.Kumar Boxing Middleweight Result
  19. ^ Góngora V V.Kumar Boxing Middleweight Result
  20. ^ Beijing Olympic Games results Middleweight SF Boxing
  21. ^ Benchabla V D.Kumar Boxing Heavyweight Result
  22. ^ Hormigo V Tewar Judo Women's Result
  23. ^ Abikeyeva V Tewar Judo Women's Result
  24. ^ Alfredo V Kamal Table tennis Men's Singles Result
  25. ^ Fang V Aggarwal Table tennis Women's Singles Result
  26. ^ France V India Tennis Men's Doubles Result
  27. ^ Brazil V India Tennis Men's Doubles Result
  28. ^ Switzerland V India Tennis Men's Doubles Result
  29. ^ Benesova V Mirza Tennis Singles Result
  30. ^ Russia V India Tennis Women's Doubles Result
  31. ^ Stadnik V S.Kumar Wrestling Freestyle 66Kg Result
  32. ^ Schwab V S.Kumar Wrestling Freestyle 66Kg Result
  33. ^ Batyrov V S.Kumar Wrestling Freestyle 66Kg Result
  34. ^ Spiridonov V S.Kumar Wrestling Freestyle 66Kg Result
  35. ^ Mocco V Tomar Wrestling Freestyle 120Kg Result

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