London Olympics turned out to be the best medal haul for India as it doubled its tally of 3 medals from 2008 Olympics. As India won 2 Silver and 4 Bronze medals, Sushil Kumar became the second Indian after Norman Pritchard to win 2 individual event medals. Sushil Kumar won in two consecutive Olympics. Shooting and Wrestling provided two medals each while Boxing and Badminton contributed one medal each. Discus Thrower, Vikas Gowda and Krishna Poonia, Rowers, Sawarn Singh, Sandeep Kumar and Manjeet Singh, Shooter Joydeep Karmakar also reached the finals.
Indian Performance in Every Olympics
History of All Sports Played at Olympics by India
Olympic History
Indian Athletes in 2012 Olympics
55 Events in 13 sports: 2 Silver, 4 Bronze
- Silver Vijay Kumar Men’s 25 m rapid fire pistol (Shooting)
Silver Sushil Kumar Men’s freestyle 66 kg (Wrestling)
Bronze Gagan Narang Men’s 10 m air rifle (Shooting)
Bronze Saina Nehwal Women’s singles (Badminton)
Bronze Mary Kom Women’s flyweight (Boxing)
Bronze Yogeshwar Dutt Men’s freestyle 60 kg (Wrestling)
Olympics Statistics
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Venue: London, United Kingdom
Sports: 240
Participating Nations: 302 events in 26 sports
Athletes Participating: 10,768 (5,992 men, 4,776 women)
Indian Statistics
- India Ranking: 55
Flag Bearer: Sushil Kumar
Indian Team: 81 (58 men and 23 women)
Sports-India: Archery, Athletics, Badminton, Boxing, Hockey, Judo, Rowing, Sailing, Shooting, Swimming, Table Tennis, Tennis, Weightlifting, Wrestling
1st Olympic medal in Boxing and Badminton.
6th: Leander Paes (Tennis)
5th: Mahesh Bhupathi (Tennis)
4th: Abhinav Bindra (Shooting)
3rd: Vikas Gowda (Athletics), Vijender Singh (Boxing), Gagan Narang, Manavjit Singh Sandhu (Shooting), Yogeshwar Dutt, Sushil Kumar (Wrestling)
2nd: Tarundeep Rai, Bombayla Devi (Archery), Seema Antil, Renjith Maheshwary, Krishna Poonia (Athletics), Saina Nehwal (Badminton, Sandeep Singh, Ignace Tirkey (Hockey), Manjit Singh (Rowing), Sanjeev Rajput (Shooting), Sania Mirza (Tennis)
Archery: 6 (3 Men and 3 Women)
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Tarundeep Rai: 17th Men’s Individual
Rahul Banerjee: 17th Men’s Individual
Jayanta Talukdar: 33rd Men’s Individual
Tarundeep Rai, Jayanta Talukdar, Rahul Banerjee: 9th Men’s Team
Bombayla Devi: 17th Women’s Individual
Deepika Kumari: 33rd Women’s Individual
Chekrovolu Swuro: 33rd Women’s Individual
Bombayla Devi, Deepika Kumari, Chekrovolu Swuro: 9th Women’s Team
Athletics:
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Vikas Gowda: 8th Men’s Discus Throw
Seema Antil: 13th Women’s Discus Throw
Renjith Maheshwary: Men’s Triple Jump
Krishna Poonia: 7th Women’s Discus Throw
Ram Singh Yadav: 78th in Marathon
Badminton
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Parupalli Kashyap: 5th Men’s Singles
Jwala Gutta / Diju: 13th
Jwala Gutta / Ashwini Ponnappa: 8th Women’s Doubles
Saina Nehwal: BRONZE Women’s Singles
- Group Stage
Def Jaquet (Switzerland) 21–9, 21–4
Def L Tan (Belgium) 21–4, 21–14
Elimination: Def Yao J (Netherlands) 21–14, 21–16
Quarterfinal: Def Tine Baun (Denmark) 21–15, 22–20
Semifinal: Lost to Wang Yihan (China) 13–21, 13–21
Bronze: Won 18-21 0-1 Wang Xin (China), Retired Hurt
Boxing:
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Vijender Singh: 5th Men’s Middleweight
Devendro Singh Laishram: 5th Men’s Light-Flyweight
Shiva Thapa: 17th Men’s Bantamweight
Jai Bhagwan: 9th Men’s Lightweight
Manoj Kumar: 9th Men’s Light-Welterweight
Vikas Krishan Yadav: 9th Men’s Welterweight
Sumit Sangwan: 17th Men’s Light-Heavyweight
Mary Kom: BRONZE Women’s Flyweight
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Round of 16: Def Michalczuk (Poland) 19–14
Quarterfinals: Def Rahali (Tunisia) 15–6
Semifinals: Lost to Adams (GBR) 6–11
Hockey: 12th (LAST)
Indians returned to Olympics after missing historically in 2008 Olympics, but they provided one of the worst performance by any Hockey team in Olympic history. They did not only lose all the 5 matches at group stage but also other the classification match and finished at the bottom. Indians could score 8 goals and conceded 21 goals.
Squad
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2nd: Sandeep Singh, Ignace Tirkey
Others: Bharat Kumar Chetri, Manpreet Singh, Sardar Singh, Dharamvir Singh, Raghunath Vokkaliga Ramachandra, Gurbaj Singh, Tushar Khandker, S. K. Uthappa, Sreejesh Parattu Raveendran, Danish Mujtaba, Shivendra Singh, Gurvinder Singh Chandi, Sunil Sowmarpet Vitalacharya, Birendra Lakra
Results
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Group Stage
1. Lost to Netherlands 2-3
2. Lost to New Zealand 1-3
3. Lost to Germany 2-5
4. Lost to South Korea 1-4
5. Lost to Belgium 0-3
Classification: 11-12th: Lost to South Africa 2-3
Judo:
Garima Chaudhary: 17th Women’s Half-Middleweight
Rowing:
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Manjit Singh: 19th Men’s Lightweight Double Sculls
Sawarn Singh 16th Men’s Single Sculls
Sandeep Kumar and Manjit Singh: 19th Men’s Lightweight Double Sculls
Shooting: 11 (7 men and 4 women) for 10 events, 1 Silver, 1 Bronze
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Vijay Kumar: SILVER in Men’s Rapid-Fire Pistol, 25 metres (30 points)
31st Men’s Air Pistol, 10 metres
Gagan Narang: Bronze Men’s Air Rifle, 10 metres (701.1)
20th Men’s Small-Bore Rifle, Three Positions, 50 metres, 18th Men’s Small-Bore Rifle, Prone, 50 metres
Abhinav Bindra: 16th Men’s Air Rifle, 10 metres
Manavjit Singh Sandhu: 16th Men’s Trap
Sanjeev Rajput: 26th Men’s Small-Bore Rifle, Three Positions, 50 metres
Joydeep Karmakar: 4th Men’s Small-Bore Rifle, Prone, 50 metres
Ronjan Sodhi: 11th Men’s Double Trap
Heena Sidhu: 12th Women’s Air Pistol, 10 metres
Annu Raj Singh: 23rd Women’s Air Pistol, 10 metres and 30th Women’s Sporting Pistol, 25 metres
Rahi Sarnobat: 19th Women’s Sporting Pistol, 25 metres
Shagun Chowdhary: 20th Women’s Trap
Swimming:
Gagan Ullalmath: 31st Men’s 1,500 metres Freestyle
Table Tennis:
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Soumyajit Ghosh: 33rd Men’s Singles
Ankita Das: 49th Women’s Singles
Tennis:
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Jagadeesan Vishnuvardhan and Somdev Devvarman: Round 1 Men’s Singles
Rohan Bopanna / Mahesh Bhupathi: Round 3 Men’s Doubles
Paes / Jagadeesan Vishnuvardhan: Round 3 Men’s Doubles
Sania Mirza/Paes: 5th
Sania Mirza / Rushmi Chakravarthi: 17th Women’s Doubles
Weightlifting
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Ravi Kumar Katulu 15th Men’s Lightweight
Soniya Chanu Ngangbam 7th Women’s Flyweight
Wrestling:
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Amit Kumar: 10th Men’s Featherweight, Freestyle
Narsingh Pancham Yadav: 13th Men’s Middleweight, Freestyle
Geeta Phogat: 13th Women’s Lightweight, Freestyle
Yogeshwar Dutt: BRONZE Lightweight, Freestyle
- Qualification: Def Guidea (Bulgaria) 3–1
Round of 16: Lost to Kudukhov (Russia) 0–3
Repechage 1: Def Gómez (Puerto Rico) 3–0
Repechage 2: Def Esmaeilpour (Iran) 3–1
Bronze: Def Ri J-M (North Korea) 3–1
Sushil Kumar: SILVER Men’s Welterweight, Freestyle
- Qualification: BYe
Round of 16: Def Sahin (Turkey) 3–1
Quarterfinal: Def Navruzov (Uzbekistan) 3–1
Semifinal: Def Tanatarov (Kazakhstan) 3–1
Final: Lost to Yonemitsu (Japan) 0–3
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