Wednesday, July 13, 2016

Olympics News

At Rio Olympics 2016, Brazil

Athletics (36+3)

Men -
200M - Dharambir Singh
400M - Muhammad Anas
800M - Jinson Johnson
50KM walk - Sandeep Kumar, Manish Singh Rawat
20KM walk - Baljinder Singh, Gurmeet Singh, Irfan Kolothum Thodi
Marathon - Thonakal Gopi, Kheta Ram, Nitender Singh Rawat
Long Jump - Ankit Sharma
Triple Jump - Renjith Maheshwary
Discus - Vikas Gowda
Shot Put - Inderjeet Singh
4x400 relay - R Mohan Kumar, Ayyasamy Dharun, Mohammed Kunhi, Arokia Rajiv, Sumit Kumar, Jithin Paul (may be we send only 5 athletes and add already qualified Muhammad Anas in roster)

Women -
100M - Dutee Chand
200M - Srabani Nanda
400M - Nirmala Sheoran
800M - Tintu Luka
3000M steeplechase - Lalita Babar, Sudha Singh
Marathon - Kavita Raut, O. P. Jaisha
20KM walk - Khushbir Kaur, Sapna Punia
Shot Put - Manpreet Kaur
Discus - Seema Antil
4x400 relay - Jisna Mathews, M. R. Poovamma, Anilda Thomas, Debashree Majumdar, Ashwini Akkunji, Priyanka Panwar (may be we send only 4 athletes and add already qualified Nirmala Sheoran and Tintu Luka in roster)

Archery (4)

Mens individual - Atanu Das
Womens individual - Deepika Kumari, Laxmirani Majhi, Bombayla Devi

Badminton (7)

Mens singles - Srikanth Kidambi
Womens singles - Saina Nehwal, Pusarla Sindhu
Mens doubles - Manu Attri/ B. Sumeeth Reddy
Womens doubles - Jwala Gutta/ Ashwini Ponnappa

Boxing (3)

Mens 60 Kg - Shiva Thapa
Mens 64 kg - Manoj Kumar
Mens 75 kg - Vikas Krishnan

Hockey (32)

Mens team - PR Sreejesh (captain and GK), Harmanpreet Singh, Rupinder Pal Singh, Kothajit Singh, Surendar Kumar, VR Raghunath, SK Uthappa, Danish Mujtaba, Devender Walmiki, Manpreet Singh, Sardar Singh, Chinglensana Singh, SV Sunil (vice-captain), Akashdeep Singh, Ramandeep Singh, Nikkin Thimmaiah

Womens team - Savita (GK), Deep Grace Ekka, Sunita Lakra, Sushila Chanu (captain), Deepika (vice-captain), Namita Toppo, Navjot Kaur, Renuka Yadav, Monika, Rani Rampal, Preeti Dubey, Lilima Minz, Nikki Pradhan, Anuradha Devi, Poonam Rani, Vandana Kataria

Gymnastics (1)

Womens individual - Dipa Karmakar

Rowing (1)

Mens single Sculls - Dattu Baban Bhokanal

Shooting (12)

Men -
Rifle - Abhinav Bindra, Gagan Narang, Chain Singh
Pistol - Jitu Rai, Prakash Nanjappa, Gurpreet Singh
Shotgun - Manavjit Singh Sandhu, Kynan Chenai, Mairaj Ahmad Khan

Women -
Rifle - Apurvi Chandela, Ayonika Paul
Pistol - Heena Siddhu

Table Tennis (4)

Men - Sharath Kamal Achanta, Soumyajit Ghosh
Women - Manika Batra, Mouma Das

Swimming (2)

200m butterfly - Sajan Prakash
200m freestyle - Shivani Kataria

Golf (3)
Men - Anirban Lahiri, Shiv Chawrasia
Women - Aditi Ashok

Judo (1)

Men's 90 kg - Avtar Singh

Tennis (4)

Men - Leander Peas, Rohan Bopanna
Women - Sania Mirza, Prarthana Thombre

Wrestling (8)

Mens freestyle - Sandeep Tomar, Yogeshwar Dutt, Narsingh Yadav
Women - Vinesh, Babita , Sakshi Malik
Greco Roman - Ravinder Khatri, Hardeep Singh

Weight lifting (2)

Men's 77 kg - Sathish Sivalingam
Women's 48 kg - Saikhom Mirabai Chanu

This is India's biggest contingent for Olympics ... We are sending 120 athletes (can be 123) to Rio ... Still not sure about medal contenders but hoping to crack in double figure in medal hauls for the first time

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