India will be participating in the 2012 London Olympics scheduled to start on the 27th July 2012 and end on the 12th August 2012. Known as 2012 London Olympics Indian Olympics Team or in short Indian Olympics Team, the team has already made public the names of the participants.
India first participated in the Olympics Games in the second Olympics of the year 1900. India Olympics team of the 1900 Olympics was represented by Norman Pritchard who participated in athletics events but he did not manage to get any medal. India would miss the 1904, 1908 and 1912 Olympics games. The 1920 Olympics Games saw India come back to Olympics Games and had been participating since then.
In the 2008 Beijing Olympics Games, India was ranked 50th with one gold medal and 2 bronze medals. The Indian Team 2008 Olympics only gold medal for India was won by Abhinav Bindra in Shooting for Men's 10 m air rifle while the two bronze medals were won by Sushil Kumar in Wrestling for Men's freestyle 66 kg and Vijender Kumar in Boxing Middleweight 75 kg.
Below are tables with the names of the 2012 London Olympics Indian Olympics Team competitors.
2012 London Olympics Indian Olympics Team- Archery List
SPORT
|
EVENT
|
GENDER
|
NAME
|
|---|---|---|---|
Archery
|
Individual and Team
|
MALE
|
Jayanta Talukdar
|
Archery
|
Individual and Team
|
MALE
|
Rahul Banerjee
|
Archery
|
Individual and Team
|
MALE
|
Tarundeep Rai
|
Archery
|
Individual and Team
|
FEMALE
|
Laishram Bombayla Devi
|
Archery
|
Individual and Team
|
FEMALE
|
Deepika Kumari
|
Archery
|
Individual and Team
|
FEMALE
|
Chekrovolu Swuro
|
2012 London Olympics Indian Olympics Team- Athletics List
SPORT
|
EVENT
|
GENDER
|
NAME
|
|---|---|---|---|
Track Events
| |||
Athletics
|
50 km walk
|
MALE
|
Basanta Bahadur Rana
|
Athletics
|
20 km walk
|
MALE
|
Baljinder Singh
|
Athletics
|
20 km walk
|
MALE
|
Gurmeet Singh
|
Athletics
|
20 km walk
|
MALE
|
Irfan Kolothum Thodi
|
Athletics
|
Marathon
|
MALE
|
Ram Singh Yadav
|
Athletics
|
800 m
|
FEMALE
|
Tintu Luka
|
Athletics
|
3000 m steeplechase
|
FEMALE
|
Sudha Singh
|
Field Events
| |||
Athletics
|
Discus throw
|
MALE
|
Vikas Gowda
|
Athletics
|
Shot put
|
MALE
|
Om Prakash Karhana
|
Athletics
|
Triple jump
|
MALE
|
Renjith Maheshwary
|
Athletics
|
Discus throw
|
FEMALE
|
Seema Antil
|
Athletics
|
Triple jump
|
FEMALE
|
Mayookha Johny
|
Athletics
|
Discus throw
|
FEMALE
|
Krishna Poonia
|
2012 London Olympics Indian Olympics Team- Badminton List
SPORT
|
EVENT
|
GENDER
|
NAME
|
|---|---|---|---|
Badminton
|
Singles
|
MALE
|
Parupalli Kashyap
|
Badminton
|
Singles
|
FEMALE
|
Saina Nehwal
|
Badminton
|
Doubles and Mixed Double
|
FEMALE
|
Jwala Gutta
|
Badminton
|
Doubles
|
FEMALE
|
Ashwini Ponnappa
|
Badminton
|
Mixed Doubles
|
MALE
|
Valiyaveetil Diju
|
2012 London Olympics Indian Olympics Team- Boxing List
SPORT
|
EVENT
|
GENDER
|
NAME
|
|---|---|---|---|
Boxing
|
Light flyweight(49kg)
|
MALE
|
Devendro Singh
|
Boxing
|
Bantamweight(56kg)
|
MALE
|
Shiva Thapa
|
Boxing
|
Lightweight(60kg)
|
MALE
|
Jai Bhagwan
|
Boxing
|
Light welterweight(64kg)
|
MALE
|
Manoj Kumar
|
Boxing
|
Welterweight(69kg)
|
MALE
|
Vikas Krishan Yadav
|
Boxing
|
Middleweight(75kg)
|
MALE
|
Vijender Singh
|
Boxing
|
Light heavyweight(81kg)
|
MALE
|
Sumit Sangwan
|
Boxing
|
Flyweight(51kg)
|
FEMALE
|
Mary Kom
|
2012 London Olympics Indian Olympics Team- Field Hockey Men List
2012 LONDON OLYMPICS MEN HOCKEY TEAM
|
|---|
Bharat Chettri (C, GK)
|
Sardar Singh (VC)
|
P. R. Sreejesh (GK)
|
Sandeep Singh
|
V. R. Raghunath
|
Ignace Tirkey
|
Manpreet Singh
|
Birendra Lakra
|
Gurbaj Singh
|
Sowmarpet Sunil
|
Danish Mujtaba
|
Shivendra Singh
|
Tushar Khandker
|
Gurwinder Singh Chandi
|
Dharamvir Singh
|
S. K. Uthappa
|
2012 LONDON MEN HOCKEY RESERVE
|
Sarvanjit Singh
|
Kothajit Singh
|
2012 London Olympics Indian Olympics Team- Judo and Rowing List
SPORT
|
EVENT
|
GENDER
|
NAME
|
|---|---|---|---|
Judo
|
63 kg
|
FEMALE
|
Garima Chaudhary
|
Rowing
|
Single sculls
|
MALE
|
Swarn Singh Virk
|
Rowing
|
Lightweight double sculls
|
MALE
|
Sandeep Kumar
|
Rowing
|
Lightweight double sculls
|
MALE
|
Manjeet Singh
|
2012 London Olympics Indian Team - Shooting Participants
The 2012 London Olympics Indian Team competitors for the shooting sport are optimistic in winning medals. Key participants in the shooting sport are Gagan Narang, and ace shooter who have won gold medals in last Commonwealth games held in India. In the 2012 London Olympics, Gagan will be participating in the following events, 10m air rifle and 50m Riffle 3 Positions. In the 2012 London Olympics Indian Team, Gagan will be participating together with Vijay Kumar, who also is a 2010 Commonwealth games gold medalist.
2012 London Olympics Indian Olympics Team- Shooting List
SPORT
|
EVENT
|
GENDER
|
NAME
|
|---|---|---|---|
Shooting
|
10 m air rifle
|
MALE
|
Abhinav Bindra
|
Shooting
|
50 m rifle prone
|
MALE
|
Joydeep Karmakar
|
Shooting
|
25 m rapid fire pistol
|
MALE
|
Vijay Kumar
|
Shooting
|
10 m air rifle
|
MALE
|
Gagan Narang
|
Shooting
|
50 m rifle 3 positions
|
MALE
|
Sanjeev Rajput
|
Shooting
|
Trap
|
MALE
|
Manavjit Singh Sandhu
|
Shooting
|
Double trap
|
MALE
|
Ronjan Sodhi
|
Shooting
|
Trap
|
FEMALE
|
Shagun Chowdhary
|
Shooting
|
25 m pistol
|
FEMALE
|
Rahi Sarnobat
|
Shooting
|
25 m pistol
|
FEMALE
|
Heena Sidhu
|
Shooting
|
10 m air pistol
|
FEMALE
|
Annuraj Singh
|
2012 London Olympics Indian Olympics Team- Swimming List
SPORT
|
EVENT
|
GENDER
|
NAME
|
|---|---|---|---|
Swimming
|
100 m and 200m Breaststroke
|
MALE
|
Aaron D'Souza
|
Swimming
|
100 m freestyle
|
MALE
|
Virdhawal Khade
|
Swimming
|
1500 m freestyle
|
MALE
|
Saurabh Sangvekar
|
Swimming
|
100 m and 200m Breaststroke
|
MALE
|
Sandeep Sejwal
|
2012 London Olympics Indian Olympics Team- Tennis and Table Tennis List
SPORT
|
EVENT
|
GENDER
|
NAME
|
|---|---|---|---|
Table Tennis
| |||
Table Tennis
|
Singles
|
MALE
|
Soumyajit Ghosh
|
Table Tennis
|
Singles
|
FEMALE
|
Ankita Das
|
Tenis
| |||
Tennis
|
Doubles
|
MALE
|
Leander Paes
|
Tennis
|
Doubles
|
MALE
|
Vishnu Vardhan
|
Tennis
|
Doubles
|
MALE
|
Mahesh Bhupathi
|
Tennis
|
Doubles
|
MALE
|
Rohan Bopanna
|
2012 London Olympics Indian Olympics Team- Weightlifting and Wrestling List
SPORT
|
EVENT
|
GENDER
|
NAME
|
|---|---|---|---|
Weightlifting
| |||
Weightlifting
|
69 kg
|
MALE
|
Katulu Ravi Kumar
|
Weightlifting
|
48 kg
|
FEMALE
|
Ngangbam Soniya Chanu
|
Wrestling
| |||
Wrestling
|
Freestyle 74 kg
|
MALE
|
Narsingh Pancham Yadav
|
Wrestling
|
Freestyle 55 kg
|
MALE
|
Amit Kumar
|
Wrestling
|
Freestyle 60 kg
|
MALE
|
Yogeshwar Dutt
|
Wrestling
|
Freestyle 66 kg
|
MALE
|
Sushil Kumar
|
Wrestling
|
Freestyle 55 kg
|
FEMALE
|
Geeta Phogat
|
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