India at the 2012 Summer Olympics

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India is currently competing at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom, from 27 July to 12 August 2012.

The Indian government had spent over ₹ 2.5 billion in preparation for the games,^{[citation needed]} including around ₹ 200 million on foreign coaches for various athletes.^[1] Team India consists of 83 athletes, making it the largest contingent India has ever sent to any Games.^{[citation needed]} Sushil Kumar was the flag bearer in the opening ceremony.

Gagan Narang won the country's first Olympic medal at these Games, a bronze in the 10 metre air rifle event.^[2]

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Bronze	Gagan Narang	Shooting	Men's 10 m air rifle	July 30

Competitors

Sport	Men	Women	Events
Archery	3	3	4
Athletics	8	6	11
Badminton	2	3	4
Boxing	7	1	8
Field Hockey	18	0	1
Judo	0	1	1
Rowing	3	0	2
Shooting	7	4	10
Swimming	1	0	1
Table tennis	1	1	2
Tennis	5	2	4
Weightlifting	1	1	2
Wrestling	4	1	5
13 sports	60	23	55

Archery

Six Indian archers qualified for the London Olympics – 3 in women's recurve and 3 in men's recurve

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
Jayanta Talukdar	Individual	650	53	Wukie (USA) (12) L 0-6	Did not advance
Rahul Banerjee		655	46	Gantugs (MGL) (19) W 6-0	R Dobrowolski (POL) (14) L 3-7	Did not advance
Tarundeep Rai		664	31	Stevens (CUB) (34) W 6-5	K Bubmin (KOR) (2) L 2-6	Did not advance
Jayanta Talukdar Rahul Banerjee Tarundeep Rai	Team	1969	12	—		Japan (JPN) (5) L 214 (27)–214 (29)	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
Laishram Bombayla Devi	Individual	651	22	Psarra (GRE) (43) W 6-4	A Román (MEX) (11) L 2-6	Did not advance
Deepika Kumari		662	8	Oliver (GBR) (57) L 2-6	Did not advance
Chekrovolu Swuro		625	50	J Nichols (USA) (15) L 5-6	Did not advance
Laishram Bombayla Devi Deepika Kumari Chekrovolu Swuro	Team	1938	9	—		Denmark (DEN) (8) L 210–211	Did not advance

Athletics

Fourteen Indian athletes qualified in athletics events (up to a maximum of 3 athletes in each event at the 'A' Standard, and 1 at the 'B' Standard).:^[3]^[4]

Men
Track & road events

Athlete	Event	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Basanta Bahadur Rana	50 km walk	—						11 August
Baljinder Singh	20 km walk	—						4 August
Gurmeet Singh		—						4 August
Irfan Kolothum Thodi		—						4 August
Ram Singh Yadav	Marathon	—						12 August

Field events

Athlete	Event	Qualifying		Final
Athlete	Event	Distance	Position	Distance	Position
Vikas Gowda	Discus throw	6 August
Om Prakash Karhana	Shot put	3 August
Renjith Maheshwary	Triple jump	7 August

Women
Track & road events

Athlete	Event	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Tintu Luka	800 m	Aug 8		—
Sudha Singh	3000 m steeplechase	Aug 4		—

Field events

Athlete	Event	Qualifying		Final
Athlete	Event	Distance	Position	Distance	Position
Seema Antil	Discus throw	3 August
Krishna Poonia	Discus throw	3 August
Mayookha Johny	Triple jump	3 August
Sahana Kumari	High jump	9 August

Badminton

5 Indian badminton players qualified for the London Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Group stage				Elimination	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Parupalli Kashyap	Men's singles	Y Tan (BEL) W 21–14 21–12	Nguyễn T M (VIE) W 21-9 21-14	—	1 Q	Niluka Karunaratne (SRI) W 21-14 15-21 21-9	Lee Chong Wei (MAS) L 19-21 11-21	Did not advance
Saina Nehwal	Women's singles	Jaquet (SUI) W 21–9 21–4	L Tan (BEL) W 21-4 21-14	—	1 Q	Yao Jie (NED) W 21-14 21-16	Tine Baun (DEN) W 21-15 22-20	Wang Yihan (CHN) 3 Aug 09:00
Jwala Gutta Ashwini Ponnappa	Women's doubles	Fujii / Kakiiwa (JPN) L 21–16 21–18	Cheng W-h / Chien Y-c (TPE) W 25-23 16-21 21-18	Sari / Yao L (SIN) W 21-16 21-15	3	Did not advance
Valiyaveetil Diju Jwala Gutta	Mixed doubles	Ahmad / Natsir (INA) L 16–21 12–21	Laybourn / Juhl (DEN) L 12–21 16–21	Lee Y-d / Ha J-e (KOR) L 15-21 15-21	4	—	Did not advance

Boxing

Eight Indian boxers qualified for the London Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Devendro Singh	Light flyweight	Molina (HON) W R1:RSC	P Serdamba (MGL) 4 Aug 14:15
Shiva Thapa	Bantamweight	Valdez (MEX) L 9–14	Did not advance
Jai Bhagwan	Lightweight	Allisop (SEY) W 18–8	Zhailauov (KAZ) L 8-16	Did not advance
Manoj Kumar	Light welterweight	Hudayberdiyev (TKM) W 13-7	Tom Stalker (GBR) 4 Aug 21:30
Vikas Krishan Yadav	Welterweight	Bye	Spence (USA) 3 Aug 21:30
Vijender Singh	Middleweight	Suzhanov (KAZ) W 14–10	Gausha (USA) W 16–15	A Atoev (UZB)
Sumit Sangwan	Light heavyweight	Falcão (BRA) L 14-15	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Mary Kom	Flyweight	Michalczuk (POL) 5 August 14:00

Field hockey

The India national field hockey team (16 member team), on 26 February 2012, qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics after winning a qualifying tournament against France with a score of 8–1.

India stands in Pool B of the men's tournament.

Men's tournament

Roster

Template:2012 Summer Olympics India men's field hockey team roster

Group play

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Judo

There is one Indian judoka at the London Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage 1	Repechage 2	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Garima Chaudhary	Women's -63 kg	Y Ueno (JPN) L 100-000	Did not advance

Rowing

India has qualified 2 boats with up to 3 athletes.^[5]

Men

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Quarterfinals		Semifinals		Finals
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Sawarn Singh	Single Sculls	6:54.04	4 R	7:00:49	1 Q	7:11.59	4 SC/D	7:36.25	2 FC	Aug 3
Sandeep Kumar Manjeet Singh	Lightweight Double Sculls	6:56.60	4 R	6:54.20	6 SC/D	—		7:19.31	4 FD	Aug 4

Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); FC=Final C (non-medal); FD=Final D (non-medal); FE=Final E (non-medal); FF=Final F (non-medal); SA/B=Semifinals A/B; SC/D=Semifinals C/D; SE/F=Semifinals E/F; Q=Quarterfinals; R=Repechage

Shooting

India has earned 11 quotas in shooting events.^[6]

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Abhinav Bindra	10 m air rifle	594	16	Did not advance
Gagan Narang	10 m air rifle	598	3	701.1
Joydeep Karmakar	50 m rifle prone	3 August 09:00
Gagan Narang	50 m rifle prone	3 August 09:00
Vijay Kumar	10 m air pistol	570	31	Did not advance
Vijay Kumar	25 m rapid fire pistol	293/300 3 August 10:00 (Rd 2)	5
Gagan Narang	50 m rifle 3 positions	6 August 09:00
Sanjeev Rajput	50 m rifle 3 positions	6 August 09:00
Manavjit Singh Sandhu	Trap	5 August 10:30
Ronjan Sodhi	Double trap	134	11	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Shagun Chowdhary	Trap	4 August 09:30
Rahi Sarnobat	25 m pistol	579	19	Did not advance
Annuraj Singh	25 m pistol	575	30	Did not advance
Annuraj Singh	10 m air pistol	378	23	Did not advance
Heena Sidhu	10 m air pistol	382	12	Did not advance

Swimming

India has gained a "Universality place" from the FINA.^[7]

Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Ullalmath Gagan	1500 m freestyle	3 Aug 10:24		—

Table tennis

India has won 2 quotas in table tennis.

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	Rank
Soumyajit Ghosh	Men's singles	Bye	Tsuboi (BRA) W 4–2	Kim Hyok-Bong (PRK) L 1–4	Did not advance
Ankita Das	Women's singles	—	Ramirez (ESP) L 1–4	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
Somdev Devvarman	Singles	Nieminen (FIN) L 3–6, 1–6	Did not advance
Vishnu Vardhan	Singles	B Kavčič (SLO) L 3–6, 2–6	Did not advance
Mahesh Bhupathi Rohan Bopanna	Doubles	—	Bury / Mirnyi (BLR) W 7–6^(7–4), 6–7^(4–7), 8–6	J Benneteau (FRA) / R Gasquet (FRA) L 3–6, 4–6	Did not advance
Leander Paes Vishnu Vardhan	Doubles	—	Haase / Rojer (NED) W 7–6^(7–1), 4–6, 6–2	M Llodra (FRA) / J-W Tsonga (FRA) L 6-7^(3–7), 6-4, 3–6	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
Rushmi Chakravarthi Sania Mirza	Doubles	—	/ Hsieh (TPE) L 1–6, 6–3, 1–6	Did not advance

Mixed

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
Leander Paes Sania Mirza	Mixed	—		Ana Ivanovic / Nenad Zimonjić (SRB) W 6-2;6-4	Victoria Azarenka / Max Mirnyi (BLR) 3 Aug 18:30

Weightlifting

India has won 2 quotas in weightlifting.

Athlete	Event	Snatch		Clean & Jerk		Total	Rank
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Total	Rank
Katulu Ravi Kumar	Men's -69 kg	136	16	167	15	303	15
Ngangbam Soniya Chanu	Women's -48 kg	74	8	97	7	171	7

Wrestling

India has won 5 quotas in the following events.^[8]

Men's freestyle

Athlete	Event	Qualification	1/8 final	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Repechage 1	Repechage 2	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Amit Kumar	55 kg	Aug 10
Yogeshwar Dutt	60 kg	Aug 11
Sushil Kumar	66 kg	Aug 12
Narsingh Pancham Yadav^[9]	74 kg	Aug 10

Women's freestyle

Athlete	Event	Qualification	1/8 final	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Repechage 1	Repechage 2	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Geeta Phogat^[10]	55 kg	Aug 9

Controversies

An unknown woman in civilian attire was seen walking at the head of the Indian Olympic team's march past during the opening ceremony. Her presence attracted media attention throughout India and raised questions about security at the Olympic Games. The woman was later identified as Madhura Nagendra, a graduate student from Bangalore living in London^[11] and a dancer in a segment of the opening ceremony co-ordinated by Danny Boyle.^[12]

Another incident involved boxer Sumit Sangwan, who lost a closely contested bout 14-15 against Yamaguchi Falcao Florentino of Brazil. The ESPN commentators described the loss as "daylight robbery."^[13] India's Chef-de-mission, on the insistence of Sports Minister Ajay Maken, lodged an unsuccessful appeal against the judges' decision believing he had won.^[14]

Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa missed out on a quarterfinal berth by a difference of one point after tying with Japan and Taipei on points. Prior to India's final group game, the Japanese partnership of Mizuki Fujii and Reika Kakiiwa lost to Chinese Taipei's Cheng Wen Hsing and Chien Yu Chin. On behalf of the Badminton Association of India, a protest was lodged saying that the match between Japan and Chinese Taipei was fixed and that Japan deliberately lost that match in order to have a better draw in the next round. The appeal was rejected for lack of evidence. ^[15] The allegations followed the disqualification of four partnerships on the same day for the aforementioned reason as well.^[16]

References

^ "Indian Olympics Team: Rs 20 crore on foreign coaches for London 2012". Olympics Medal Tally. 2011-06-10. Retrieved 2012-08-02.
^ "Gagan Narang wins India's first medal at London 2012 Olympics". Retrieved 2012-07-30.
^ "iaaf.org – Top Lists". IAAF. Retrieved 6 September 2011.
^ "IAAF Games of the XXX Olympiad – London 2012 ENTRY STANDARDS" (PDF). IAAF. Retrieved 6 September 2011.
^ "Three rowers make the cut for Olympics".
^ "Quota places by nation and name". International Shooting Sport Federation. Retrieved 28 May 2011.
^ "FINA Universality Places" (PDF). FINA. 6 July 2012. Retrieved 6 July 2012.
^ "Yogeshwar, Amit make it to London Olympics; Sushil misses out again". The Times of India. PTI. 30 March 2012.
^ Padmadeo, Vinayak (4 May 2012). "Narsingh makes his last chance count". The Indian Express. New Delhi, India.
^ Sejwal, Ritu (1 April 2012). "Geeta wins gold in Asian qualifying event, books London Olympics berth". The Times of India. TNN.
^ Jill Lawless (29 July 2012) India's Olympic Team Abuzz About Mystery Woman From London Olympics Opening Ceremony The Huffington Post. Retrieved 30 July 2012.
^ Anil Kumar (30 July 2012). Olympic gatecrasher 'over-excited' Madhura, a dancer from Bangalore The Times of India. Retrieved 30 July 2012.
^ "Indian boxer Sangwan loses a bout he had 'won' - London Olympics 2012 News - IBNLive". Ibnlive.in.com. Retrieved 2012-08-02.
^ "Appeal against Sumit Sangwan's bout rejected". NDTV Sport. 31 July. Archived from the original on 31 July 2012. Retrieved 31 July 2012. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= and |year= / |date= mismatch (help)
^ "India's badminton protest rejected for lack of evidence - Rediff.com Sports". Rediff.com. Retrieved 2012-08-02.
^ Peter Walker and Haroon Siddique (2012-01-08). "Eight Olympic badminton players disqualified for 'throwing games' | Sport | guardian.co.uk". Guardian. Retrieved 2012-08-02.

External links

Olympics London 2012

[1] "Indian Olympics Team: Rs 20 crore on foreign coaches for London 2012". Olympics Medal Tally. 2011-06-10. Retrieved 2012-08-02.

[GaganNarang-2] "Gagan Narang wins India's first medal at London 2012 Olympics". Retrieved 2012-07-30.

[3] "iaaf.org – Top Lists". IAAF. Retrieved 6 September 2011.

[4] "IAAF Games of the XXX Olympiad – London 2012 ENTRY STANDARDS" (PDF). IAAF. Retrieved 6 September 2011.

[5] "Three rowers make the cut for Olympics".

[issf-6] "Quota places by nation and name". International Shooting Sport Federation. Retrieved 28 May 2011.

[7] "FINA Universality Places" (PDF). FINA. 6 July 2012. Retrieved 6 July 2012.

[8] "Yogeshwar, Amit make it to London Olympics; Sushil misses out again". The Times of India. PTI. 30 March 2012.

[9] Padmadeo, Vinayak (4 May 2012). "Narsingh makes his last chance count". The Indian Express. New Delhi, India.

[10] Sejwal, Ritu (1 April 2012). "Geeta wins gold in Asian qualifying event, books London Olympics berth". The Times of India. TNN.

[11] Jill Lawless (29 July 2012) India's Olympic Team Abuzz About Mystery Woman From London Olympics Opening Ceremony The Huffington Post. Retrieved 30 July 2012.

[toi_opening_ceremony-12] Anil Kumar (30 July 2012). Olympic gatecrasher 'over-excited' Madhura, a dancer from Bangalore The Times of India. Retrieved 30 July 2012.

[13] "Indian boxer Sangwan loses a bout he had 'won' - London Olympics 2012 News - IBNLive". Ibnlive.in.com. Retrieved 2012-08-02.

[14] "Appeal against Sumit Sangwan's bout rejected". NDTV Sport. 31 July. Archived from the original on 31 July 2012. Retrieved 31 July 2012. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= and |year= / |date= mismatch (help)

[15] "India's badminton protest rejected for lack of evidence - Rediff.com Sports". Rediff.com. Retrieved 2012-08-02.

[16] Peter Walker and Haroon Siddique (2012-01-08). "Eight Olympic badminton players disqualified for 'throwing games' | Sport | guardian.co.uk". Guardian. Retrieved 2012-08-02.

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