Monday, August 13, 2012

Olympics News
At London Olympics 2012, England

Our top 16 performance
Sushil Kumar - Wrestling Men's Freestyle (66kg) - Silver
Vijay Kumar - Shooting Men's 25m Rapid Fire Pistol - Silver
Gagan Narang - Shooting Men's 10m Air Rifle - Bronze
Saina Nehwal - Badminton women's singles - Bronze
Mery Kom Hmangte - Boxing Women's Flyweight (51kg) - Bronze
Yogeshwar Dutt - Wrestling Men's Freestyle (60kg) - Bronze
Joydeep Karmarker - Shooting Men's 50m Rifle Prone - Finished 4th
Amit Kumar - Wrestling Men's Freestyle (55kg) - Lost in QF
Devendro Singh Laishram - Boxing Men's Light Flyweight (49kg) - Lost in QF
Kashyap Parupalli - Badminton men's singles - Lost in QF
Leander Paes and Sania Mirza - Tennis Mixed Doubles - Lost in QF
Vijender - Boxing Men's Middleweight (75kg) - Lost in QF
Krishna Poonia - Women's Discuss Throw - 7th
Soniya Chanu - Womens weightlifting (48 kg) - 7th
Vikas Gowda - Men's discuss throw - 8th
Also adding young, Irfan Kolathumthodi - Men's 20km Racewalking - 10th (for doing an NR at age 22 and being very close to a top-8 timing)

Though we failed to win a Gold medal in this Olympics still we showed improvement/ progress in our performance.

In this Olympics we had SIXTEEN Top-8 performances ... In that SEVEN Top-4 performances and we won SIX Medals.

And for a comparison, India had ten such performances in Beijing Olympics 2008 where we had three Top-4 finishes.

With this improvement I m hoping yellow medal(s) at Rio ... Proud of all Indian athletes.

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