The 2012 Summer Olympic Games (30th Olympiad) will be held in London from 27 July to 12 August 2012.
Qualified Indian Players for London Olympics 2012
Acoording to list released by the India’s Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports. Here is the list of participants in London Olympics-2012 with discipline and event.
Athletics
In athletics a total of 12 Indian Athletes get qualified for Olympics 2012.
Men’s discus throw - Vikas Gowda
Women’s discus throw - Krishna Poonia (Commonwealth Games gold medallist) and Seema Antil
Men's triple jump - Renjith Maheshwary
Women's triple jump – Mayookha Johny
Men's marathon – Ram Singh Yadav
Men's 20 km race walk – Gurmeet Singh, Baljinder Singh, Irfan Kolothum Thodi
Men's 50 km race walk – Basanta Bahadur Rana or Sandeep Kumar
Women's 800 m – Tintu Luka
Archery
India has so far 4 archers qualified for London Olympics 2012
Men’s individual event - Jayanta Talukdar
Women’s Recurve Team - Deepika Kumari with Laishram Bombayla Devi and Chekrovolu Swuro)
Women's individual event - Laishram Bombayla Devi with Deepika Kumari and Chekrovolu Swuro)
Boxing
In boxing a total of 8 Indian Boxers get qualified for Olympics 2012.
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 (Commonwealth Games gold medallist)
Men's welterweight (69 kg) – Vikas Krishan Yadav (Asian Games - 2010 gold medallist)
Men's middleweight (75 kg) – Vijender Singh (2008 Beijing Olympics bronze medallist)
Men's light heavyweight (81 kg) – Sumit Sangwan
Women's flyweight (51 kg) – Mary Kom (5 times World Boxing Champion, She is the first Indian female boxer who has qualified for the Olympic Games.)
Badminton
In badminton 5 Indian players get qualified for Olympics 2012.
Saina Nehwal (5th Rank in the World) - Women Singles
Parupalli Kashyap - Men Singles
Jwala Gutta - Women Doubles & Mixed Doubles
Ashwini Ponnappa - Women Doubles
Valiyaveetil Diju - Mixed Doubles
Shooting
In shooting a total of 11 Indian Shooters get qualified for Olympics 2012.
Men’s Events
Abhinav Bindra (individual gold medal champion in Beijing Olympics 2008 ) - 10 m air rifle
Gagan Narang (first Indian to qualify for the London Olympics) - 10 m air rifle, 50 m rifle 3 position, 50 m rifle prone
Ronjan Singh Sodhi (Asian Games-Gold, Commonwealth games-2010- Silver Medal) - Men’s double trap
Manavjit Singh Sandhu - Men’s trap
Vijay Kumar - 25 m rapid fire pistol
Sanjeev Rajput (shooting World Cup 2011- Gold Winner) - 50 m rifle 3 position
Joydeep Karmakar - 50 m rifle prone
Women’s Events
Shagun Chaudhary - Women’s trap
Annu Raj Singh (first Indian Girl shooter who qualified for London Olympics) - 10 m air pistol, 25 m pistol
Rahi Sarnobat - 25 m pistol
Heena Sidhu - 10 m air pistol
Wrestling
5 Indian Wrestlers get qualified for Olympics 2012.
Amit Kumar (55 kg), Yogeshwar Dutt (60 kg), Narsingh Pancham Yadav (74 kg)
Sushil Kumar (66 kg) - Beijing Olympics 2008 Bronze Medalist
Geeta Kumari Phogat (55 kg) - Women's freestyle (first Indian woman wrestler to qualify for the Olympics)
Judo- Only Garima Chaudhary qualified for Olympics 2012 in women’s 63 kg event.
Rowing - Manjeet Singh, Swaran Singh and Sandeep Kumar - 3 Indian Rowers get qualified for Olympics 2012.
Swimming
4 Indian swimmers get qualified for Olympics 2012 - Aaron D’Souza, Sandeep Sejwal, Saurabh Sangvekar, Virdhawal Khade.
Table tennis - Soumyajit Ghosh (men’s) and Ankita Das (women’s category).
Field Hockey -After failing to qualify for the Beijing Olympics 2008 Indian Hockey team, qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics after winning a qualifying tournament against France.
Weightlifting - Katulu Ravi Kumar (Men's 69 kg) and Ngangbam Soniya Chanu (Women's 48 kg) 2 Indian weightlifters get qualified for Olympics 2012.
Still more qualifying tournaments in various games are left and still at least 10-15 Indian players can qualify for the London Olympics.
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