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THE INDIA CHECKLIST

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

Men’s doubles: Leander Paes & Mahesh Bhupathi (lost to Switzerland in the quarter finals) Women’s singles: Sania Mirza (lost in the round of 64) Women’s doubles — Sania Mirza & Sunitha Rao (lost to Russia in the round of 16)

WRESTLING

Men’s 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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