India at the 2000 Summer Olympics

India at the Olympic Games
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At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney
Competitors
Medals Rank: 71	Gold 0	Silver 0	Bronze 1	Total 1
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India competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.

Medalists

Bronze

• Karnam Malleswari — Weightlifting, Women's 69kg Competition.

Results by event

Athletics

Men's competition

Men's 400 m

• Paramjit Singh
  1. Round 1 - 46.64 (did not advance)

Men's 4x100 m

• Rajeev Bala Krishnan, C. Thirugnana Durai, Anil Kumar, Raj Singh Ajay
  1. Round 1 - (did not advance)
  2. Semifinal - (did not advance)
  3. Final - ( place)

Men's 4x400 m

• Lijo David Thottan, P. Ramachandran, Jata Shankar, Paramjit Singh
  1. Round 1 - 03:08.38 (did not advance)

Men's Shot Put

• Bahadur Singh Sagoo
  1. Qualifying - 18.70 (did not advance)
• Shakti Singh
  1. Qualifying - 18.40 (did not advance)

Men's Javelin Throw

• Jagdish Bishnoi
  1. Qualifying - 70.86 (did not advance)

Men's Long Jump

• Sanjay K. Rai
  1. Qualifying - NM (did not advance)

Women's competition

Women's 400 m

• Beena Mol K. M.
  1. Round 1 - 51.51
  2. Round 2 - 51.81
  3. Semifinal - 52.04 (did not advance)

Women's 4x100 m

• Saraswati Dey, Rachita Mistry, Vinita Tripathi, Jayalakshmi V.
  1. Round 1 - 45.20 (did not advance)

Women's 4x400 m

• Mol K. M. Beena, Paramjit Kaur, Rosa Kutty, Jincy Phillip
  1. Round 1 - 03:31.46 (did not advance)

Women's Discus

• Neelam Jaswant Singh
  1. Qualifying - 55.26 (did not advance)

Women's Javelin Throw

• Gurmeet Kaur
  1. Qualifying - 52.78 (did not advance)

Women's Heptathlon

• Pramila Gudandda Ganapathy
  1. 100 m Hurdles - 14.22
  2. High Jump - 1.69
  3. Shot Put - 11.14
  4. 200 m - 24.69
  5. Long Jump - 5.96
  6. Javelin Throw - 36.02
  7. 800 m - 02:20.86
  8. Points - 5548 (24th place)
• Soma Biswas
  1. 100 m Hurdles - 14.11
  2. High Jump - 1.63
  3. Shot Put - 11.69
  4. 200 m - 24.73
  5. Long Jump - 5.64
  6. Javelin Throw - 39.59
  7. 800 m - 02:22.17
  8. Points - 5481 (25th place)

Badminton

Men's Singles

• Pullela Gopichand
  1. Round of 64: Bye
  2. Round of 32: Defeated Vladislav Druzchenko of Ukraine
  3. Round of 16: Lost to Hendrawan of Indonesia

Women's Singles

• Aparna Popat
  1. Round of 64: Lost to Kelly Morgan of Great Britain

Boxing

Men's Light Flyweight (48 kg)

• Soubam Suresh Singh
  1. Round 1 – Lost to Kim Ki-Suk of South Korea (did not advance)

Men's Bantamweight (54 kg)

• Dingko Singh
  1. Round 1 – Lost to Sergey Danilchenko of Ukraine (did not advance)

Men's Middleweight (75 kg)

• Jitender Kumar
  1. Round 1 – Defeated Donald Orr of Canada
  2. Round 2 – Lost to Adrian Diaconu of Romania (did not advance)

Men's Light Heavyweight (81 kg)

• Gurcharan Singh
  1. Round 1 – Defeated Ki-Soo Choi of South Korea
  2. Round 2 – Defeated Danie Venter of South Africa
  3. Quarterfinal – Lost to Andriy Fedchuk of Ukraine (did not advance)

Hockey

The Indian field hockey team didn't make it to the semis, and finished in seventh position after a 2-3 lost against England in the classification match. The squad was made up by the following players: Jude Menezes (gk), Devesh Chauhan (gk), Dilip Tirkey, Dinesh Nayak, Lazarus Barla, Baljit Singh Saini, Sukhbir Singh Gill, Mohammed Riaz, Thirumal Valavan, Ramandeep Singh (captain), Mukesh Kumar, Dhanraj Pillay, Baljit Singh Dhillon, Sameer Dad, Deepak Thakur and Gagan Ajit Singh.

Swimming

Men's 200 m Freestyle

• Hakimuddin Shabbir Habibulla

• Preliminary Heat - 1:58.35 (did not advance)

Women's 200 m Freestyle

• Nisha Millet

• Preliminary Heat - 02:08.89 (did not advance)

Weightlifting

Main article: Weightlifting at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Snatch			Clean & Jerk			Total	Rank
		1	2	3	1	2	3
Thandava Murthy Muthu	– 56 kg	105.0	110.0	112.5	130.50	135.0	135.0	245.0	16

Women

Athlete	Event	Snatch			Clean & Jerk			Total	Rank
		1	2	3	1	2	3
Karnam Malleswari	– 69 kg	105.0	107.5	110.0	125.0	130.0	137.5	240.0

References

• Wallechinsky, David (2004). The Complete Book of the Summer Olympics (Athens 2004 Edition). Toronto, Canada. ISBN 1-894963-32-6.
• International Olympic Committee (2001). The Results. Retrieved 11/12/05.
• Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (2001). Official Report of the XXVII Olympiad Volume 1: Preparing for the Games. Retrieved 11/20/05.
• Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (2001). Official Report of the XXVII Olympiad Volume 2: Celebrating the Games. Retrieved 11/20/05.
• Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (2001). The Results. Retrieved 11/20/05.
• International Olympic Committee Web Site