India at the 2000 Summer Olympics explained

Noc:	IND
Nocname:	Indian Olympic Association
Games:	Summer Olympics
Year:	2000
Location:	Sydney
Competitors:	65 in 13 sports
Flagbearer:	Leander Paes
Rank:	71
Gold:	0
Silver:	0
Bronze:	1
Appearances:	auto
App Begin Year:	1900

India competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.

Medalists

See main article: 2000 Summer Olympics medal count.

Competitors

!Sports!Men!Women!Total!Events

	12	12	24	12
	1	1	2	2
	4	0	4	4
	1	0	1	1
	16	0	16	1
	0	1	1	1
	2	0	2	1
	2	1	3	3
	1	1	2	2
	1	1	2	2
	2	2	4	3
	1	2	3	3
	1	0	1	1
Total	44	21	65	36

Athletics

See main article: Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

Track & road events

Men

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Event	Heats		Quarter Finals		Semi Finals		Final
Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
align= left	Paramjit Singh	align= left	Men's 400m	46.64	6	Did Not Advance
align= left	Rajeev Bala KrishnanC. Thirugnana Durai Anil Kumar Prakash Anand Menezes	Men's 4 × 100 m	40.23	7	N/A		Did Not Advance
Lijo David ThottanPurukottam Ramachandran Jata Shankar Paramjit Singh	Men's 4 × 400 m	3:08.38	4	N/A		Did Not Advance

Women

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Event	Heats		QuarterFinals		SemiFinals		Final
Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
align= left	Beena Mol K. M.	align= left	Women's 400 m	51.51	1 Q	51.81	4 Q	52.04	8	Did Not Advance
align= left	Saraswati DeyRachita Mistry Vinita Tripathi Valdivel Jayalakshmi	Women's 4 × 100 m	45.20	6	N/A		Did Not Advance
Paramjeet KaurJincy Phillip K.M.Beena Mol Rosa Kutty	Women's 4 × 400 m	3:31.46	6	N/A		Did Not Advance

Field Events

Men

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Events	Qualification		Final
Distance	Result	Distance	Result
align= left	Bahadur Singh Sagoo	Men's Shot Put	18.70	27	Did Not Advance
align= left	Shakti Singh		18.40	32	Did Not Advance
align= left	Jagdish Bishnoi	align= left	Men's Javelin Throw	70.86	30	Did Not Advance
align= left	Rai Sanjay Khumar	align= left	Men's Long Jump	NM	-	Did Not Advance

Women

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Event	Qualification		Final
Distance	Result	Distance	Result
align= left	Neelam Jaswant Singh	align= left	Women's Discus Throw	55.26	26	did not advance
align= left	Gurmeet Kaur	align= left	Women's Javelin Throw	52.78	32	Did Not Advance

Combined – Women's heptathlon

!Athlete!Event!100 metresHurdles!HighJump!ShotPut!200 metres!LongJump!Javelin Throw!800 metres!Total Points!Rank

Pramila Ganapathy	Results	14.22	1.69	11.14	24.69	5.96	36.02	02:20.86	5548	24
	Points	947	842	604	915	837	591	812
Soma Biswas	Results	14.11	1.63	11.69	24.73	5.64	39.59	02:22.17	5481	25
	Points	963	771	641	912	741	659	794

Badminton

See main article: Badminton at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

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Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarter Finals	Semi Finals	Final
OppositionResult	OppositionResult	OppositionResult	OppositionResult	OppositionResult	OppositionResult	Rank
Pullela Gopichand	Men's singles	Bye	W 15–3, 10–15, 15–7	L 9–15, 4–15	Did not advance
Aparna Popat	Women's singles	L 11–5, 7–11, 2–11	Did not advance

Boxing

See main article: Boxing at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

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Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarter Finals	Semi Finals	Final
OppositionResult	OppositionResult	OppositionResult	OppositionResult	OppositionResult	Rank
Soubam Suresh Singh	Men's Light Flyweight (48kg)	L 5-9		Did Not Advance
Dingko Singh	Men's Bantamweight (54kg)	N/A	L 5-14	Did Not Advance
Jitender Kumar	Men's Middleweight (75kg)	W RSC	L 3-12	Did Not Advance
Gurcharan Singh	Men's Light Heavyweight (81kg)	W 11-9	W RSC	L 12-12^+	Did Not Advance

Equestrian

See main article: Equestrian at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

!Athlete!Event!Horse!Dressage!Cross Country!Jumping!TotalPenalty

Points!Ranking

Imtiaz Anees

Individual Eventing

Spring Invader

61.0

165.2

10.0

236.2

23

Field hockey

See main article: Field hockey at the 2000 Summer Olympics. The Indian field hockey team didn't make it to the semis, and finished in seventh position after a 2–3 loss against England in the classification match.

Roster:

• Jude Menezes (gk)
• Devesh Chauhan (gk)
• Dilip Tirkey
• Dinesh Nayak
• Lazarus Barla
• Baljit Singh Saini
• Sukhbir Singh Gill
• Mohammed Riaz
• Thirumal Valavan
• Ramandeep Singh (captain)
• Mukesh Kumar
• Dhanraj Pillay
• Baljit Singh Dhillon
• Sameer Dad
• Deepak Thakur
• Gagan Ajit Singh

Judo

See main article: Judo at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

!Athlete!Event!Round 1!Round 2!QuarterFinals!SemiFinals!Final

align= left

Lourembam Brojeshori Devi

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Women's 52 kg

Won

Loss

Did Not Advance

Rowing

See main article: Rowing at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

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Event	Heats		Repachage		SemiFinals		Final
Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
align= left	Kasam Khan	Men's coxless pair	7:09.94	5 R	7:16.10	6	Did Not Advance
align= left	Inderpal Singh

Shooting

See main article: Shooting at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

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Event	Qualification		Final
Score	Rank	Score	Rank
align= left	Anwer Sultan	align= left	Men's Trap	108	26	Did Not Advance
align= left	Abhinav Bindra	align= left	Men's 10m Air Rifle	590	11	Did Not Advance
align= left	Anjali Vedpathak	align= left	Women's 10m Air Rifle	394	7 Q	493.1	8

Swimming

See main article: Swimming at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

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Event	Heat		Semi Finals		Final
Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
align= left	Hakimuddin Shabbir Habibulla	align= left	Men's 200 m Freestyle	1:58.35	50	Did Not Advance
align= left	Nisha Millet	align= left	Women's 200 m Freestyle	2:08:89	37

Table Tennis

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Event	Group Stage			Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarter Finals	Semi Finals	Final
OppositionResult	OppositionResult	Rank	OppositionResult	OppositionResult	OppositionResult	OppositionResult	OppositionResult	Rank
align= left	Chetan Baboor	align= left	Men's singles	L 1-3	W 3-0	2	Did Not Advance
align= left	Poulomi Ghatak	align= left	Women's singles	L 0-3	L 0-3	3	Did Not Advance

Tennis

See main article: Tennis at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

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Event	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Quarter Finals	Semi Finals	Final/BM
OppositionResult	OppositionResult	OppositionResult	OppositionResult	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Leander Paes	align= left	Men's singles	L 2–6, 4–6	Did not advance
Leander PaesMahesh Bhupathi	Men's doubles	W 6–3, 6–3	L 3–6, 6–7	Did not advance
Manisha MalhotraNirupama Vaidyanathan	Women's doubles	L 0–6, 0–6	Did not advance

Weightlifting

See main article: Weightlifting at the 2000 Summer Olympics. Men

Women

Athlete	Event	Snatch			Clean & Jerk			Total	Rank
		1	2	3	1	2	3
align= left	Sanamacha Chanu	align= left	- 53 kg	80.0	85.0	87.5	105.0	110.0	117.5	195.0	6
Karnam Malleswari	- 69 kg	105.0	107.5	110.0	125.0	130.0	137.5	240.0

Wrestling

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Event		Group Stage			QuarterFinals	SemiFinals	Final
OppositionResult	OppositionResult	OppositionResult	Rank	OppositionResult	OppositionResult	OppositionResult
align= left	Gurbinder Singh	align= left	Men's Greco Roman -63 kg	L 0-3 ^PO	W 3-0 ^PO	L 1-3 ^PP	3	Did Not Advance

References

• Wallechinsky, David (2004). The Complete Book of the Summer Olympics (Athens 2004 Edition). Toronto, Canada. .
• International Olympic Committee (2001). The Results. Retrieved 12 November 2005.
• Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (2001). Official Report of the XXVII Olympiad Volume 1: Preparing for the Games. Retrieved 20 November 2005.
• Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (2001). Official Report of the XXVII Olympiad Volume 2: Celebrating the Games. Retrieved 20 November 2005.
• Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (2001). The Results. Retrieved 20 November 2005.
• International Olympic Committee Web Site