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India competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, People's Republic of China. A contingent of 56 athletes represented India, and they had a support-staff of 42 officials. The athletics contingent was the largest, with 16 athletes.^[1]

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Olympic weightlifter, Monika Devi from India being scheduled to compete, but she too failed a drug test, and was also withdrawn.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 to participate in had already closed.^[2]

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, a 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 ^[3] and the gold and bronze medals won by the Indian field hockey team and Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav respectively, at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics.

Medalists

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	28 men	25 women		1 Gold 2 Bronze

Archery

Men

Athlete	Event	Ranking Round		Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	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
Athlete	Event	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

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final		Rank
Athlete	Event	Time/Score	Rank	Time/Score	Rank	Rank
Surendra Singh	10000m			28:13.97	26	26^[4]
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
Athlete	Event	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^[5]
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

Athlete	100m Hurdles		High Jump		Shot Put		200m Sprint		Long Jump		Javelin		800m Run		Total
Athlete	Time	Points	Height	Points	Distance	Points	Time	Points	Distance	Points	Distance	Points	Time	Points	Score^[6]	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

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Anup Sridhar	Singles	Vasconcelos (POR) (Won 21-16 21-14^[7])	Sato (JPN) (Lost 13-21 17-21^[8])	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Saina Nehwal	Singles	Diehl (RUS) (Won 21-9 21-8^[9])	Larisa Griga (UKR) (Won 21-18 21-10^[10])	Wang Chen (HKG) (Won 21-19 11-21 21-11^[11])	Yulianti (INA) Lost 26-28 21-14 21-15^[12]	Did not advance

Boxing

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Overall
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Jitender Kumar	Flyweight	Memis (TUR) W (Opponent retired)	Doniyorov (UZB) W 13 : 6^[13]	Balakshin (RUS) L 15 : 11^[14]	Did not advance
Akhil Kumar	Bantamweight	Hallab (FRA) W 12 : 5	Vodopyanov (RUS) W +9 : 9^[15]	Gojan (MDA) L 10 : 3^[16]	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^[17]	Góngora (ECU) W 9 : 4^[18]	Correa (CUB) L 8 : 5^[19]	Did not advance	Bronze
Dinesh Kumar	Light heavyweight	Benchabla (ALG) L 3 : 23 (stopped by referee)^[20]	Did not advance

Judo

Women

Athlete	Event	Preliminary	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	First Repechage Round	Repechage Quarterfinals	Repechage Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	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^[21])	Did not advance				Sagat Abikeyeva (KAZ) (Lost ^[22])	Did not advance

Rowing

Men

Athlete(s)	Event	Heats		Repechage		Semifinals		Final
Athlete(s)	Event	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

Open

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

Shooting

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final		Rank
Athlete	Event	Score	Rank	Score	Total	Rank
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
Sanjeev Rajput	50 m Rifle Three Positions	1162	26	Did not advance
Samaresh Jung	10 m air pistol	570	42	Did not advance
Samaresh Jung	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
Athlete	Event	Score	Rank	Score	Total	Rank
Anjali Bhagwat	10 m air rifle	393	29	Did not advance
Anjali Bhagwat	50 m rifle three positions	571	32	Did not advance
Avneet Kaur Sidhu	10 m air rifle	389	39	Did not advance
Avneet Kaur Sidhu	50 m rifle three positions	552	42	Did not advance

Swimming

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	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
Sandeep Sejwal	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

Men

Athlete	Event	Preliminary round	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	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 ^[23]	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
Athlete	Event	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)^[24]	Did not advance

Tennis

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 64		Round of 32		Round of 16		Quarterfinals		Semifinals		Final
Athlete	Event	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 ^[25]	SA Andre (BRA) Marcelo Melo (BRA)	Won 6-4,6-2 ^[26]	R Federer (SUI) S Wawrinka (SUI)	Lost 2-6 4-6^[27]	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Round of 64		Round of 32		Round of 16		Quarterfinals		Semifinals		Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition	Score	Opposition	Score	Opposition	Score	Opposition	Score	Opposition	Score	Opposition	Score	Rank
Sania Mirza	Singles	Benesova (CZE)	Lost 1-6 1-2 (ret)^[28]	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^[29]	Did not advance

Wrestling

Men's Freestyle

Athlete	Event	Qualification	1/8 Final	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Repechage Round 1	Repechage Round 2	Bronze Medal Final	Rank
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
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 ^[30]	Did not advance			Schwab (USA) Won 3-1 ^[31]	Batyrov (BLR) Won 3-1 ^[32]	Leonid Spiridonov (KAZ) Won 3-1^[33]	Bronze
Rajiv Tomar	120 kg	Mocco (USA) Lost 0-4 ^[34]	Did not advance

References

External links

Indian contingent to the 2008 Beijing Olympics (PDF)

[1] India names 57-member squad for Beijing Olympics

[2] "Indian lifter fails drug test". CBC Sports. August 5, 2008. Retrieved August 5, 2008.

[3] ttp://www.olympic.org/uk/athletes/results/search_r_uk.asp?KEYWORD=Pritchard&x=0&y=0&RESULT=TRUE&KEYWORDS=%22Pritchard*%22

[4] [1]

[5] Women's 10,000m Finals Results

[6] [2]

[7] Vasconcelos V Sridhar Badminton Match result

[8] Sato V Sridhar Badminton Match result

[9] Diehl V Nehwal Badminton Match result

[10] Griga V Nehwal Badminton Match result

[11] Chen V Nehwal Badminton Match result

[12] Yulianti V Nehwal Badminton Match result

[13] Doniyorov V J.Kumar Boxing Flyweight Result

[14] Balakshin V J.Kumar Boxing Flyweight Result

[15] Vodopyanov V A.Kumar Boxing Bantamweight Result

[16] Gojan V Akhil Kumar Boxing Bantamweight quarterfinal result

[17] Chomphuphuang V V.Kumar Boxing Middleweight Result

[18] Góngora V V.Kumar Boxing Middleweight Result

[19] Beijing Olympic Games results Middleweight SF Boxing)

[20] Benchabla V D.Kumar Boxing Heavyweight Result

[21] Hormigo V Tewar Judo Womens Result

[22] Abikeyeva V Tewar Judo Womens Result

[23] Alfredo V Kamal Table tennis Mens Singles Result

[24] Fang V Aggarwal Table tennis Womens Singles Result

[25] France V India Tennis Mens Doubles Result

[26] Brazil V India Tennis Mens Doubles Result

[27] Switzerland V India Tennis Mens Doubles Result

[28] Benesova V Mirza Tennis Singles Result

[29] Russia V India Tennis Womens Doubles Result

[30] Stadnik V S.Kumar Wrestling Freestyle 66Kg Result

[31] Schwab V S.Kumar Wrestling Freestyle 66Kg Result

[32] Batyrov V S.Kumar Wrestling Freestyle 66Kg Result

[33] Spiridonov V S.Kumar Wrestling Freestyle 66Kg Result

[34] Mocco V Tomar Wrestling Freestyle 120Kg Result

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Medalists

Contingent India in sport

Archery

Athletics

Men

Women

Women's Heptathlon

Badminton

Boxing

Judo

Rowing

Sailing

Shooting

Swimming

Table tennis

Tennis

Wrestling

See also

References

External links