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Indian delegation for the London 2012 Olympics is having a great time after Indian government allocated Rs. 60.85 million to train the Olympians for 2012 who have qualified in different disciplines. The government’s move ensures that the nation should get maximum possible medals in respective categories.
The 24 sports persons from India have qualified for the London 2012 Olympic games so far either with Olympics qualification ‘A’ standard or Olympic qualification ‘B’ standard. Here are the details on those who have made a cut to represent India in the Olympics.
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Archery:
Four Indian archers have got quota places for the Olympics. The Indian women’s re-curve team of Deepika Kumari, Laishram BombaylaDevi and Chekrovolu Swuro reserved the Olympics berth along-with male counterpart Jayanta Talukdar, who has qualified in individual men’s re-curve event.
Athletics:
Five Indian athletes have qualified for the London 2012 Olympics. Krishna Pooniya qualified in women’s discuss throw event with a throw of 61.12m to better the Olympics qualification ‘B’ standard of 59.50m, while the ‘A’ standard mark remained unreachable to the Indian ace.
Tintu Luka qualified in women’s 800m with the time of 2.00.95s after surpassing the ‘B’ standard qualification mark of 2.01.30s. The ‘A’ standard qualification time 1.59.9s yet to be touched by Tintu.
Mayookha Johny has reserved her Olympics berth in women’s triple jump event after she bettered the qualification ‘B’ mark of 14.10m by just 1cm, she also broke her own national record of 14.02cm. Although qualification ‘A’ mark of 14.30m was impossible for the Indian to reach, but her significant improvement in performances is a high boost.
Gurmmet Singh is the only Indian athlete who has qualified with a Olympic qualification ‘A’ standard in the men’s 20race walk event. His 1.22.07s time was better than ‘A’ standard mark of 1.22.30s.
Om Prakash Karhana has qualified in men’s shot-put event with a qualification ‘B’ mark with a best throw of 20.04cm bettering the ‘B’ standard mark by 4cm.
Boxing:
Four Indian boxers have qualified for the London 2012 in different categories. L.Devenmdro Singh qualified in men’s 49kg Light Flyweight event, Jai Bhagwan in men’s 60kg Lightweight, Manoj Kumar in men’s 64kg Light Welterweight and Vikas Krishnan in men’s 69kg Welterweight. There is still a chance for Indian boxers to get Olympic qualification as the last qualification tournament is in April 2012 in Uzbekistan.
Swimming:
Two Indian swimmer will represent India at the London 2012 Olympics, Virdhawal Khade and Sandeep Sejwal. The ace Indian swimmer Virdhawal khade clicked a time of 50.34s to get qualification at the 14th FINA world championships at Shanghai. Sandeep Sejwal qualified in 100m breaststroke with a time of 1.02.62s at the 14th FINA world championships in Shanghai. The Olympic qualification mark was 1.02.92s. He has also represented India in 2008 Beijing Olympics in the 100m and 200m breaststroke events.
Shooting:
A total of nine Indian shooters have made a cut for the London 2012 Olympics in eight shooting events, 6 men and 3 women. Sanjeev Rajput got a quota place in 50m rifle – 3 positions after a score of 1176 points in the world championships at the Changwon in this year the MQS (Minimum Qualification Score) was 1135.
Hariom Singh qualified for the Olympics in 2010 world championships at Munich in men’s 50m rifle prone event when he shot a score of 598 to better MQS 587.
The 2008 Olympic gold medalist Abhinav Bindra has qualified in men;s 10m rifle event along-with another Indian Gagan Narang in 2011 and 2010 world championships respectively. The MQS of 570 was a easy going task for both the shooters who bettered it by shooting 597 points.
Vijay Kumar has reserved his berth in 25m rapid fire pistol event after scoring 584 points to better MQS of 560 in 2011 world championships at Fort Benning. For Ronjan Sodhi the MQS of 118 points in men’s double trap was the easiest task to mark Olympics berth as he bettered the mark twice in this year with a shooting score of 142 points.
Rahi Sarnobat reserved Olympics berth in 25m pistol event with a score of 582 points to better MQS of 555 in 2011 world championships at Fort Benning. She is joined by Annu Raj Singh in women’s 10m air pistol event with a score of 389 points in the world championships at Fort benning, the MQS was 365. Shagun Chowdhary qualified in women’s trap event after shooting a score of 72 points to better MQS of 58 points in the world championships at Belgrade.
Sportskeeda Perspective:
This Indian delegation looks awesome to pocket maximum possible medals for the nation in shooting, boxing and most likely in archery. Four boxers have capabilities to grab any of the three possible medals as they have improved a lot in last few years and have done a great job in commonwealth games, Asian games and world championships. In shooting contingent we have 2008 gold medalist Abhinav Bindra as well as world no. 2 Ronjan Sodhi. Also Sanjeev Rajput who has pocketed gold in 2011 world championship at Changwon and Gagan Narang who has 3 gold medals in qualified event at world championships. Vijay Kumar is yet to grab a gold at international level. So, in men’s team we can expect at-least 4 medal pocketing performances with a chances of another Olympic gold.
Out of 3 women shooters, Rahi Sarnobat has qualified after personal best bronze medal score, so medal hopes 50-50. Same with Annu Raj Singh and Shagun Chowdhary as they are yet to stand with no 1 position on podium in any international championships. So, medal hope blowing in the air, now its in their hand to shoot them with accuracy.
In swimming team, both the swimmers have done good job in Asian tournaments and have proved their mantle to grab a podium but not the center spot. Both have qualified with ‘B’ standard timings means medal hopes are less but we can expect for new national records. In archery team there are hopes of medal contention from the women’s re-curve team, only.
The case with athletics contingent is a bit different as medal hope does not exists. All athletes have qualified with ’B’ standard after making their personal best efforts, expect Gurmeet Singh. But lack to reach even qualification ‘A’ mark creates zero medal hopes, but good news is we can again expect new national records.
