2000 Olympics: Karnam Malleswari becomes the 1st Indian Woman to Win Olympic Medal

Weightlifting became India’s 5th Medal earning Sports in Olympics as Karnam Malleswari became the first Indian woman to win an Olympic medals. She won the Bronze in Weightlifting of Women’s 69 kg.

Indian Performance in Every Olympics
History of All Sports Played at Olympics by India
Olympic History

Olympics Statistics

1. Venue: Sydney, Australia

1. Sports: 300 events in 28 sports

1. Participating Nations: 199

Athletes Participating: 10,651 (6,582 men, 4,069 women)

Indian Statistics

1. India Ranking: 71

1. Flag Bearer: Leander Paes

1. Indian Team: 65 Athletes (21 Females)

1. Sports-India: Athletics, Badminton, Boxing, Equestrianism, Hockey, Judo, Rowing, Shooting, Swimming, Table Tennis, Tennis, Weightlifting, Wrestling

1. 3rd: Mukesh Kumar Nandanoori, Dhanraj Pillay (Hockey), Chetan Baboor (Table Tennis), Leander Paes (Tennis)

2nd: K. M. Beenamol, Rosa Kutty Kunnath Chacko, Shakti Singh (Athletics), Gurcharan Singh (Boxing), Riaz Nabi Muhammad, Baljit Singh Saini, Baljit Singh Dhillon, Ramandeep Singh Grewal (Hockey), Mahesh Bhupathi (Tennis)

Athletics: 24 (12 men and 12 women) in 12 events

1. Paramjit Singh: Men’s 400 metres

1. Thirugnan Durai, Rajeev Bala Krishnan, Ajay Raj Singh, Anil Kumar Prakash: Men’s 4 × 100 metres Relay

1. Lijo David Thottan, Jata Shankar, Purukottam Ramachandran, Paramjit Singh: Men’s 4 × 400 metres Relay

1. Sanjay Kumar Rai: Men’s Long Jump

1. Bahadur Singh and Shakti Singh: Men’s Shot Put

1. Jagdish Bishnoi: Men’s Javelin Throw

1. K. M. Beenamol: Women’s 400 metres

1. Valdivel Jayalakshmi, Vinita Tripathi, Saraswati Dey-Saha, Rachita Mistry: Women’s 4 × 100 metres Relay

1. Paramjit Kaur, Jincy Phillip, Rosa Kutty Kunnath Chacko , K. M. Beenamol: Women’s 4 × 400 metres Relay

1. Neelam Jaswant Singh Dogra: Women’s Discus Throw

1. Gurmeet Kaur: Women’s Javelin Throw

1. Prameela Ganapathy: 24th Women’s Heptathlon

Soma Biswas: 25th Women’s Heptathlon

Badminton: 2 members in 2 events

1. Pulella Gopichand: 9th in Men’s Singles

Aparna Popat: Women’s Singles

Boxing: 4 men in 4 events

1. Soubam Suresh Singh: Round 2 Men’s Light-Flyweight

1. Ngangim Dingko Singh: Round 3 Men’s Bantamweight

1. Jitender Kumar: Round 3 Men’s Middleweight

Gurcharan Singh: 8th Men’s Light-Heavyweight

Equestrianism: 1 man in 1 event
Imtiaz Anees: 23rd Mixed Three-Day Event, Individual

Hockey: 7th
India finished third in Pool B after winning two, drawing two matches and losing to South Korea, who finished second in the group. After losing to Britain in Classification matches, after group they defeated Argentina again to finish 7th position.
Squad

1. 4th: Dhanraj Pillay

1. 3rd: Mukesh Kumar Nandanoori, Dhanraj Pillay

1. 2nd: Riaz Nabi Muhammad, Baljit Singh Saini, Baljit Singh Dhillon, Ramandeep Singh Grewal, Dilip Kumar Tirkey

Others: Lajarus Barla, Thirumal Valavan Selvaraj, Samir Dad, Jude Menezes, Deepak Thakur Sonkhla, Gagan Ajit Singh, Sukhbir Singh Gill, Dinesh Nayak

Results

1. def Argentina 3-0

1. drew Australia 2-2

1. Lost to South Korea 2-0

1. Def Spain 3-2

1. Drew Poland 1-1

1. Classification Matches

1. 5-8th: Lost to Great Britain: 1=2

7-8th: Def Argentina 3-1

Judo: 1 woman in 1 event
Lourembam Brojeshori Devi: 9th Women’s Half-Lightweight

Rowing: 2 men in 1 event
Kasam Khan / Inderpal Singh: Round 1 Men’s Coxless Pairs

Shooting: 3 (1 woman) in 4 events

1. Abhinav Bindra: 11th Men’s Air Rifle, 10 metres

1. Anwer Sultan: 26th Men’s Trap

1. Anjali Ramakanta Vedpathak-Bhagwat: 8th in Women’s Air Rifle, 10 metres and 33rd in Women’s Small-Bore Rifle, Three Positions, 50 metres

Anwer Sultan: 26th Men’s Trap

Swimming: 2 in 2 events (1 woman)

1. Hakimuddin Shabbir Habibulla 50th Men’s 200 metres Freestyle

Nisha Millet: 27th Women’s 200 metres Freestyle

Table Tennis: 3 Paddlers (1 woman)

1. Chetan Baboor: Men’s Singles

1. Chetan Baboor / Raman Subramanyan: 25th in Men’s Doubles

Poulomi Ghatak: Women’s Sinlges

Tennis:

1. Leander Paes: Round 1 Men’s Sinlges

1. Mahesh Bhupathi / Paes: 9th in Men’s Doub

Manisha Malhotra / Nirupama Vaidyanathan: 17th in Women’s Doubles

Weightlifting: 3 (2 woman) in 3 events

1. Thandava Murthy Muthu: Men’s Bantamweight

1. Thing Baijan Sanamacha Chanu: 6th Women’s Featherweight

Karnam Malleswari: Bronze Women’s Light-Heavyweight

Wrestling:
Gurbinder Singh: 13th Men’s Lightweight, Greco-Roman