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India at Beijing Olympics 2008: The Indian Squad

by: Beijing08 | last updated: February 24, 2009
Category: News, Sports | Tags: Beijing Olympics, Olympics 2008, Beijing Olympics 2008, Indian sports, India at beijing 2008, indians competing at Beijing Olympics, indian Olympic squad, indian olympics
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India at Beijing Olympics 2008: The Indian Squad

Which just 3 days to go for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the pressure is on! All countries are looking to their Best Sports Persons to bring home the Gold and if not the Gold at least a Silver or Bronze. While India's best gold medal winning sport so far in the Olympics has been it's National Sport Hockey...Unfortunately for the first time since 1928, the Indian Men's Hockey Team will not be taking part in the Summer Olympics due to its failure to qualify, But we hope to win some medals in other sporting events. For the first time India is sending a team of swimmers to the Beijing Games...and we wish them all the Best.

A contingent of 56 athletes will represent India, and are supported by a support-staff of 42 officials. The athletic contingent is the largest, with 16 athletes.

Here's the India's finest and most talented sportspeople representing India in the Beijing Olympics '08- The Indian Squad!

Also read:
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Indian Athletes Competing in The 2008 Beijing Olympics
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Athletics:

- Anju Bobby George (Long Jump)
- Krishna Poonia, Harwant Kaur, Vikas Gowda (Discus)
- Preeja Sreedharan (10,000m)
- Manjit Kaur (400m)
- Renjith Maheswary (Triple Jump)
- Surender Singh (10000m)
- J J Shobha , Sushmita Singh Roy, G G Pramila (Heptathlon)
- Chitra Soman, Sini Jose, MR Poovamma, Mandeep Kaur, S Geeta , K Mridula (4×400m relay)

More about these Athletes in- Indian Athletes Competing in The 2008 Beijing Olympics

Shooting:

- Manavjit Singh Sandhu, Mansher Singh, Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore (Clay Pigeon Double Trap)
- Gagan Narang,Avneet Kaur Sidhu, Abhinav Bindra (10m Air Rifle)
- Samresh Jung (10m Air Pistol)
- Sanjeev Rajput, Anjali Bhagwat (50m Rifle 3 Position),

More about these Sports Persons in India's Best Shooters at The Beijing Olympics 2008

Archery:

- Dola Banerjee
- Pranitha Vardhineni
- L Bombayala Devi
- Mangal Singh Champia.

Boxing:

- Jitender (51kg)
- Akhil Kumar (54kg)
- A L Lakhra (57kg)
- Vijender(75kg)
- Dinesh Kumar (81kg)

Judo:

- Khumujam Tombi Devi
- Divya.

Rowing:

- Bajrang Lal Takhar (Single M1X)
- Devnder Khandwal and Manjeet Singh (Light Weight Double Scull).

Badminton:

- Anup Sridhar
- Saina Nehwal

Swimming:

- Virdawal Khade (50m, 100m, 200m Freestyle)
- Ankur Poseria (100m Butterfly)
- Sandeep Sejwal (100m, 200m Breaststroke)
- Rehan Poncha (200m butterfly).

Table Tennis:

- Achanta Sharath Kamal
- Neha Aggarwal.

Tennis:

- Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi (doubles)
- Sania Mirza (singles and doubles)
- Sunitha Rao (doubles).

More About the Indian Tennis Player competing in India at Beijing Olympics 2008: India's Tennis Hopefuls

Weightlifting:

- L Monika Devi (69kg)

Wrestling:

- Sushil Kumar (66 kg Freestyle)
- Yogeshwar Dutt (60 kg Freestyle)
- Rajiv Tomar (120 kg Freestyle)

Yachting:

- Major NS Johal (Heavyweight Dinghy)

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Guide Comments

ragu said about 1 year ago:

all the best

anonymous said about 1 year ago:

all the best Indiaaaaaaaaaaa

dr ankur garg said about 1 year ago:

chak de inida get some more medals we r wiating 4 you with more medals best of luk and my best wishes with u t c

CHAK DE INDIAN said about 1 year ago:

How absolutely SAD that the men's hockey team did not make it to the squad this year! Makes the movie "Chak De India" seem like a cruel joke. I hope the Indian athletes do not think of this as a joyride and keep our izzat! Please bring back at least 3 medals! It is a shame that being a country almost as large as China, that China will be ranked with the highest number of medals, and India probably one of the lowest. Please do your best!

Beijing08 said about 1 year ago:

I agree Chak de Indian that it is truly sad that India's best gold medal winning sport Hockey isn't part of the Olympics this year....but the Show must go on! With over a billion population, 56 sports people of international standards is all we can produce :( I do hope India does at least make it on the medal list.

Rahul M Gupta said about 1 year ago:

common India go get some gold...... Best of luck ....

RAJU said about 1 year ago:

where r u guys?????

Pratap said about 1 year ago:

Now its HIGH time that we put Cricket behind and support other sports and sportsmen of our country. The time and money spent by Abhinav's father on him is really worth spent, Why can't the government give such facility to all sportsmen?

rajagopala said about 1 year ago:

congrats !!!!!!!!!!!!

Bhaswanth said about 1 year ago:

W00T!! YEAH! GO INDIA GOLD MEDAL IN SHOOTING GO! GO! GO! ABINAV BINDRA SCORED GOLD!!!!!!!!!

prabhakar said about 1 year ago:

india surely win the gold medal i will tennis players mahesh & paes& also sania.

yoga said about 1 year ago:

All the best Akil to win a medal

Naveen said about 1 year ago:

all the best jitender and vijender for their quarter final matches These two are now the Indian's hopes for a medal

ashish said about 1 year ago:

all the best to vijendra for semis and move for gold

avi said about 1 year ago:

oh no india lost

HI said about 1 year ago:

olympics are over.india's performance was not too good.

aish said about 1 year ago:

hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii vijendra u were good and you look dashing I LOVE U VIJENDRAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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