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The following is a summary of how the Indians fared in the Beijing Olympics:
ARCHERY
Individual event: Men Mangal Singh Champia (made round of 32) Women Dola Banerjee (made round of 64); Bombayala Devi Laishram (made round of 64); Pranitha Vardhineni (made round of 32) Team Event: Dola Banerjee, Bombayala Devi Laishram, Pranitha Vardhineni (lost to China in quarter finals)
ATHLETICS
Discus Throw: Men Vikas Gowda (did not advance to finals); Women Harwant Kaur (did not advance to finals); Krishna Poonia (did not advance to finals) Heptathlon: Women G. Pramila Ganapathy (score-5771, rank-28); J.J. Shobha (score-5749, rank-30); Sushmita Singha Roy (score-5705, rank-33) Long Jump: Anju Bobby George (did not advance to finals) 400m: Mandeep Kaur (did not advance to finals) Triple jump: Men Renjith Maheswary (did not advance to finals) 10,000m: Men: Surendra Singh (finished 26); Women Preeja Sreedharan (finished 25) 4x400m Relay: Women Geeta Satti, Manjeet Kaur, Chitra K. Soman, Mandeep Kaur (did not advance to finals)
BADMINTON
Men Anup Sridhar (made round of 32) Women Saina Nehwal (made quarter finals)
BOXING
Men: Bantamweight Akhil Kumar (made quarter finals); Light Heavyweight Dinesh Kumar (made round of 32); Flyweight Jitender Kumar (made quarter finals); Middleweight Vijender Kumar (Bronze); Featherweight Anthresh Lalit Lakra (made round of 32)
JUDO
Women: Khumujam Tombi Devi (lost in the preliminary round); Divya Tewar (lost in the preliminary round)
ROWING
Team event Devender Kumar Khandwal and Manjit Singh Lightweight Double Sculls (finished 18) Individual event Bajrang Lal Takar Single Sculls (finished 21)
SHOOTING
Men: 10m Air Rifle Abhinav Bindra (Gold); Gagan Narang (did not advance to finals) 10m Air Pistol Samaresh Jung (did not advance to finals) Double Trap Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore (did not advance to finals) 50m Pistol Samaresh Jung (did not advance to finals) 50m Rifle Prone Gagan Narang (did not advane to finals); Sanjeev Rajput (did not advance to finals) 50m Rifle three positions Gagan Narang (did not advance to finals); Sanjeev Rajput (did not advance to finals) Trap Manavjit Singh Sandhu (did not advance to finals); Mansher Singh (did not advance to finals)
Women: 10m Air Rifle Anjali Bhagwat (did not advance to finals); Avneet Kaur Sidhu (did not advance to finals) 50m Rifle three positions Anjali Bhagwat (did not advance to finals); Avneet Kaur Sidhu (did not advance to finals)
SWIMMING
Men: 50m Freestyle Virddawal Khade (did not advance to finals) 100m Freestyle Virddawal Khade (did not advance to finals) 200m Freestyle Virddawal Khade (did not advance to finals) 200m Butterfly: Rehan Poncha (did not advance to finals) 100m Butterfly Ankur Poseria (did not advance to finals) 100m Breaststroke Sandeep Sejwal (did not advance to finals) 200m Breaststroke Sandeep Sejwal (did not advance to finals).
TABLE TENNIS
Men: Achanta Sharath Kamal (lost in round 2) Women: Neha Aggarwal (lost in the preliminary round)
TENNIS
Mens doubles: Leander Paes & Mahesh Bhupathi (lost to Switzerland in the quarter finals) Womens singles: Sania Mirza (lost in the round of 64) Womens doubles Sania Mirza & Sunitha Rao (lost to Russia in the round of 16)
WRESTLING
Mens Freestyle: 60kg Yogeshwar Dutt (made quarter finals) 66kg Sushil Kumar (Bronze); 120 kg Rajiv Tomar (lost in the qualification round)
YACHTING
Men: Finn Nachhatar Singh Johal (did not advance to finals).
Compiled by Sports desk
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