Monday, July 23, 2012

Olympics News
At London Olympics 2012, England

Archery
Women`s Individual Event (3) - Laishram Bombayla Devi, Deepika Kumari, Chekrovolu Swuro
Women`s Recurve Team Event (1) - Laishram Bombayla Devi, Deepika Kumari and Chekrovolu Swuro
Men`s Individual event (3) - Jayanta Talukdar, Rahul Banerjee, Tarundeep Rai
Men’s Recurve Team event (1) - Jayanta Talukdar, Rahul Banerjee, Tarundeep Rai

Athletics
Men`s 50 km Race Walk - Basanta Bahadur Rana
Men`s 20 km Race Walk - Gurmeet Singh, Baljinder Singh
Men`s Marathon - Ram Singh Yadav
Women`s Discus Throw - Krishna Poonia, Seema Antil
Men`s Discus Throw -Vikas Gowda
Men`s Shot Put - Om Prakash Karhana
Women`s 800m - Tintu Luka
Men`s Triple Jump - Renjith Maheshwary
Women`s Triple Jump - Mayookha Johny
Women’s 3000 m Steeplechase - Sudha Singh
Women’s High Jump - Sahana Kumari

Badminton
Women`s Singles - Saina Nehwal
Men`s Singles - Parupalli Kashyap
Mixed Doubles - Jwala Gutta, Valiyaveetil Diju
Women`s Doubles - Jwala Gutta, Ashwini Ponnappa

Boxing
Men`s Light Flyweight (49 Kg) - Devendro Singh
Men`s Bantamweight (56 Kg) - Shiva Thapa
Men`s Lightweight (60 Kg) - Jai Bhagwan
Men`s Light Welterweight (64 Kg) - Manoj Kumar
Men`s Welterweight (69 Kg) - Vikas Krishan Yadav
Men`s Middleweight (75 Kg) - Vijender Singh
Men`s Light Heavyweight (81 kg) - Sumit Sangwan
Women's Boxing (51 Kg)- MC Mary Kom

Judo
Women`s 63 kg - Garima Chaudhary

Rowing
Single Sculls - Swarn Singh Virk
Lightweight Double Sculls - Sandeep Kumar, Manjeet Singh

Shooting
Men`s 10 m Air Rifle - Abhinav Bindra, Gagan Narang
Men`s 50 m Rifle 3 Position - Sanjeev Rajput, Gagan Narang
Men`s 50 m Rifle Prone - Joydeep Karmakar
Men`s 25 m Rapid Fire Pistol - Vijay Kumar
Men`s Trap - Manavjit Singh Sandhu
Men`s Double Trap - Ronjan Sodhi
Women`s 25 m Pistol - Rahi Sarnobat, Heena Sidhu
Women`s 10 m Air Pistol - Annuraj Singh
Women`s Trap - Shagun Chowdhury

Swimming
Men`s 1500 m Freestyle - Gagan AP Ulalmath

Table Tennis
Men`s Singles - Soumyajit Ghosh
Women`s singles - Ankita Das

Lawn Tennis
Men`s Singles - Somdev Devvarman
Men`s Doubles - Mahesh Bhupathi, Rohan Bopanna
Men`s Doubles - Leander Paes, Vishnu Vardhan
Women’s Doubles - Rushmi Chakravarthi, Sania Mirza
Mixed Doubles - Leander Paes, Sania Mirza

Weightlifting
Men`s 69 kg - Katulu Ravi Kumar
Women`s 48 kg - Ngangbam Soniya Chanu

Wrestling
Men’s 55 kg - Amit Kumar
Men’s 60 kg - Yogeshwar Dutt
Men’s 66 kg - Sushil Kumar
Men’s 74 kg – Narsingh Pancham Yadav
Women’s 55 kg - Geeta Phogat

Field hockey (18 members)
Goalkeepers - Bharat Chetri (Capt), PR Sreejesh
Defenders - VR Raghunath, Ignace Tirkey, Sandeep Singh
Midfielders - Sardar Singh (Vice Capt), Gurbaj Singh, Birendra Lakra, Manpreet Singh
Forwards - SV Sunil, Gurwinder Singh Chandi, Shivendra Singh, Danish Mujtaba, Tushar Khandker, Dharamvir Singh, SK Uthappa

This time India is sending their biggest ever contingent of 81 athletes to the Olympics ... I m really hoping that we will better our the Beijing Olympics medal haul of 3 medals (1 Gold and 2 Bronze) ... As per my calculation we r having chance of winning minimum 6 medals (and optimistic view is 10 medals) -
Archery 1 (here we can surprise to win couple of more considering our performance in World cups but realistically we should win at least 1 medal)
Boxing 2 minimum (we r having chance of winning more medals if our boxers get favorable draw but hoping at least 1 medal from men's and 1 from Mary Kom)
Shooting 1 (here also we r having good opportunity of winning more medals ... Abhinav Bindra is the best bet but we should not forget our other shooters like Gagan Narang, Ronjan Sodhi and Manavjit Singh Sandhu)
Wrestling 1 (here also Sushil Kumar is the best bet as he knows what require to win the medal in this mega event but with good draw young Amit Kumar can give us pleasant surprise)
Badminton/Tennis 1 (at least 1 but Saina having good draw to win her first Olympics medal ... In tennis, mixed doubles pair having realistic chance with little luck in a draw)

Table Tennis News

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