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India at the 2012 Summer Olympics

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Indian Olympic Association www.olympic.ind.in At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London

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(as of 11th April 2012) 55 in 7 sports

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India is scheduled to compete at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London,United Kingdom from 27 July to 12 August 2012. Indian government has allocated a sum of Rs 60.85 million to train 22 sports persons of different individual disciplines to ensure that India is able to get maximum possible medals in this event. [1] Ajit Pal Singh has been named thechef de mission by the IOA on 2 April 2012.[2]

Contents 1 Archery 2 Athletics 3 Boxing 4 Field Hockey 5 Shooting 6 Swimming 7 Wrestling 8 References 9 External links [edit]

Archery

Main article: Archery at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Women's Individual Event (3) - Laishram Bombayla Devi, Deepika Kumariand Chekrovolu Swuro

Women's Recurve Team Event (1) - Laishram Bombayla Devi, Deepika Kumari and Chekrovolu Swuro

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Men's Individual event (1) - Jayanta Talukdar

Athletics

Main article: Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics Indian athletes have so far achieved qualifying standards in the following athletics events (up to a maximum of 3 athletes in each event at the 'A' Standard, and 1 at the 'B' Standard):[3][4] Qualified three (or more) athletes at the A standard

None

Qualified two athletes at the A standard

Men's 20 km race walk - Gurmeet Singh, Baljinder Singh Women's discus throw - Krishna Poonia, Seema Antil[5]

Qualified one athlete at the A standard

Men's discus throw -Vikas Gowda

Qualified one (or more) athletes at the B standard

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Men's shot put - Om Prakash Karhana Women's 800m - Tintu Luka Women's triple jump - Mayookha Johny Men's marathon - Ram Singh Yadav

Boxing

Main article: Boxing at the 2012 Summer Olympics India has earned 7 quotas in boxing

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Men's Light Flyweight (49 Kg) - Devendro Singh Men's Bantamweight (56 Kg) - Shiva Thapa Men's Lightweight (60 Kg) - Jai Bhagwan Men's Light Welterweight (64 Kg) - Manoj Kumar Men's Welterweight (69 Kg) - Vikas Krishan Yadav Men's Middleweight (75 Kg) - Vijender Singh Men's Light Heavyweight (81 kg) - Sumit Sangwan

Field Hockey

Main article: Field hockey at the 2012 Summer Olympics The India national field hockey team on 26 February 2012, qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics after winning a qualifying tournament against France with a score of 8 1.[6] India stands in Pool B of the men's competion.

Pool B [edit] Germany Netherlands Korea New Zealand India Belgium

Shooting

Main article: Shooting at the 2012 Summer Olympics India has earned eleven quotas in shooting events:.[7]

Men's 50 m rifle 3 position - 2 quota place Men's 50 m rifle prone - 1 quota place. Men's 10 m air rifle - 2 quota place. Men's 25 m rapid fire pistol - 1 quota place. Men's double trap - 1 quota place. Men's trap - 1 quota place. Women's 25 m pistol - 1 quota place. Women's 10 m air pistol - 1 quota place. Women's trap - 1 quota place

The National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) has announced the following squad to the 2012 Summer Olympics.

MEN'S Men's 10 m air rifle-Abhinav Bindra, Gagan Narang Men's 50 m rifle 3 position - Sanjeev Rajput, Gagan Narang Men's 50 m rifle prone -Gagan Narang, Joydeep Karmakar Men's 25 m rapid fire pistol-Vijay Kumar Men's trap - Manavjit Singh Sandhu

Men's double trap -Ronjan Sodhi WOMEN'S Women's 25 m pistol -Rahi Sarnobat, Annuraj Singh Women's 10 m air pistol -Annuraj Singh, Heena Sidhu Women's trap - Shagun Chowdhury

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Swimming

Main article: Swimming at the 2012 Summer Olympics Indian swimmers have so far achieved qualifying standards in the following events (up to a maximum of 2 swimmers in each event at the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT), and 1 at the Olympic Selection Time (OST)):[8][9] Two (or more) swimmers have achieved the Olympic Qualifying Time

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One swimmer has achieved the Olympic Qualifying Time

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One (or more) swimmers have achieved the Olympic Selection Time

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Men's 100 m freestyle - Virdhawal Khade Men's 100 m breaststroke - Sandeep Sejwal Men's 200 m freestyle - Aaron D'Souza Men's 1500 m freestyle - Saurabh Sangvekar

Wrestling

Main articles: Wrestling at the 2012 Summer Olympics and Wrestling at the 2012 Summer Olympics Qualification India has qualified in the following events.[10]

[edit]References

Men's freestyle -55 kg - quota won by Amit Kumar Men's freestyle -60 kg - quota won by Yogeshwar Dutt Women's freestyle -55 kg - quota won by Geeta Phogat[11]

1. 2. 3. 4.

^ Indian Olympics Team: Rs 20 crore on foreign coaches for London 2012 ^ Ajit Pal Singh to be India's chef-de-mission for olympics ^ "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.

5. 6. 7.

^ Another Indian athlete qualifies for Olympic athletics ^ India beat France 8 1, Qualify for 2012 London Olympics Hockey ^ "Quota places by nation and name.". International Shooting Sport Federation. Retrieved 28 May 2011.

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^ "Swimming World Rankings". FINA. Retrieved 6 September 2011. ^ FDRATION INTERNATIONALE DE NATATION - Swimming, FINA, retrieved 6 September 2011

10. ^ [1] 11. ^ [2]

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