London Olympics 2012 will definitely keep me busy blogging here in my sports blog. This year, India is sending the biggest delegation yet and some events are really promising. The events that may bring medals are archery, lawn tennis, shooting, wrestling, and boxing though I am also looking forward to unexpected medals.
London Olympics 2012 will be held from July 27 to August 12. Sushil Kumar will be the flag bearer. Here are the complete list of Indian delegation to London Olympics 2012:
Archery
Women`s Individual Event (3) – Laishram Bombayla Devi, Deepika Kumari, Chekrovolu Swuro
Women`s Recurve Team Event (1) – Laishram Bombayla Devi, Deepika Kumari and Chekrovolu Swuro
Men`s Individual event (1) – Jayanta Talukdar, Rahul Banerjee, Tarundeep Rai
Men’s Recurve Team event (1) – Jayanta Talukdar, Rahul Banerjee, Tarundeep Rai
Athletics
Men`s 50 km race walk – Basanta Bahadur Rana
Men`s 20 km race walk – Gurmeet Singh, Baljinder Singh
Men`s marathon – Ram Singh Yadav
Women`s discus throw – Krishna Poonia, Seema Antil
Men`s discus throw –Vikas Gowda
Men`s shot put – Om Prakash Karhana
Women`s 800m – Tintu Luka
Men`s triple jump – Renjith Maheshwary
Women`s triple jump – Mayookha Johny
Women’s 3000 m steeplechase – Sudha Singh
Women’s High Jump – Sahana Kumari
Badminton
Women`s Singles – Saina Nehwal
Men`s Singles – Parupalli Kashyap
Mixed Doubles – Jwala Gutta, Valiyaveetil Diju
Women`s Doubles – Jwala Gutta, Ashwini Ponnappa
Boxing
Men`s Light Flyweight (49 Kg) – Devendro Singh
Men`s Bantamweight (56 Kg) – Shiva Thapa
Men`s Lightweight (60 Kg) – Jai Bhagwan
Men`s Light Welterweight (64 Kg) – Manoj Kumar
Men`s Welterweight (69 Kg) – Vikas Krishan Yadav
Men`s Middleweight (75 Kg) – Vijender Singh
Men`s Light Heavyweight (81 kg) – Sumit Sangwan
Women’s Boxing (51 Kg)- MC Mary Kom
Judo
Women`s 63 kg – Garima Chaudhary
Rowing
Single sculls – Swarn Singh Virk
Lightweight double sculls – Sandeep Kumar, Manjeet Singh
Shooting
Men`s 10 m air rifle-Abhinav Bindra, Gagan Narang
Men`s 50 m rifle 3 position – Sanjeev Rajput, Gagan Narang
Men`s 50 m rifle prone – Joydeep Karmakar
Men`s 25 m rapid fire pistol-Vijay Kumar
Men`s trap – Manavjit Singh Sandhu
Men`s double trap –Ronjan Sodhi
Women`s 25 m pistol –Rahi Sarnobat, Heena Sidhu
Women`s 10 m air pistol –Annuraj Singh
Women`s trap – Shagun Chowdhury
Swimming
Men`s 1500 m freestyle – Gagan AP Ulalmath
Table Tennis
Men`s Singles – Soumyajit Ghosh
Women`s singles – Ankita Das
Lawn Tennis
Men`s singles – Somdev Devvarman
Men`s doubles – Mahesh Bhupathi, Rohan Bopanna
Men`s doubles – Leander Paes, Vishnu Vardhan
Women’s Doubles – Rushmi Chakravarthi, Sania Mirza
Mixed Doubles – Leander Paes, Sania Mirza
Weightlifting
Men`s 69 kg – Katulu Ravi Kumar
Women`s 48 kg – Ngangbam Soniya Chanu
Wrestling
Men’s 55 kg – Amit Kumar
Men’s 60 kg – Yogeshwar Dutt
Men’s 66 kg – Sushil Kumar
Men’s 74 kg – Narsingh Pancham Yadav
Women’s 55 kg – Geeta Phogat
Field hockey: 18 members
Goalkeepers: Bharat Chetri (captain) and P.R. Sreejesh
Defenders: V.R.Raghunath, Ignace Tirkey, Sandeep Singh
Midfielders: Sardar Singh (vice captain), Kothajit Singh, Gurbaj Singh, Birendra Lakra, Manpreet Singh
Forwards: S.V. Sunil, Gurwinder Singh Chandi, Sarvanjit Singh, Shivendra Singh, Danish Mujtaba, Tushar Khandker, Dharamvir Singh, S.K. Uthappa
London Olympics is just 5 days away and pushing aside the ugly issues of tennis players and the who’s who of the Indi’s delegation, I do wish our players and athletes to do well in their respective events and bring home the gold. All the best, Team India!