India at Beijing 2008 Summer Games

Beijing 2018 Summer Olympic & Paralympic Games were the 29th edition of the Games which were hosted at Beijing, China with Olympics held between August 8- 24, 2008 & Paralympics held between September 6-17, 2008. Here, we’ll list down the participants for India at Beijing 2008 Summer Games, starting with Olympics followed by Paralympics and then the medalists.

Olympics: India at Beijing 2008 Summer Games

SN	Sport	Olympian	Event
1	Archery	Mangal Champia	Men’s Individual
2	Archery	Dola Banerjee	Women’s Individual/Women’s Team
3	Archery	Bombayala Devi	Women’s Individual/Women’s Team
4	Archery	Pranitha Vardhineni	Women’s Individual/Women’s Team
5	Athletics	Surendra Singh	Men’s 10000 M
6	Athletics	Vikas Gowda	Men’s Discus Throw
7	Athletics	Renjith Maheswary	Men’s Triple Jump
8	Athletics	Mandeep Kaur	Women’s 400 M
9	Athletics	Preeja Sreedharan	Women’s 10000 M
10	Athletics	Sathi Geetha	Women’s 4 × 400 M Relay
11	Athletics	Mandeep Kaur	Women’s 4 × 400 M Relay
12	Athletics	Manjeet Kaur	Women’s 4 × 400 M Relay
13	Athletics	Sini Jose	Women’s 4 × 400 M Relay
14	Athletics	Chitra Soman	Women’s 4 × 400 M Relay
15	Athletics	Anju Bobby George	Women’s Long Jump
16	Athletics	Harwant Kaur	Women’s Discus Throw
17	Athletics	Krishna Poonia	Women’s Discus Throw
18	Athletics	Pramila Aiyappa	Women’s Pentathlon
19	Athletics	Shobha Javur	Women’s Pentathlon
20	Athletics	Susmita Singha Roy	Women’s Pentathlon
21	Badminton	Anup Sridhar	Men’s Singles
22	Badminton	Saina Nehwal	Women’s Singles
23	Boxing	Jitender Kumar	Men’s Flyweight
24	Boxing	Akhil Kumar	Men’s Bantamweight
25	Boxing	Anthresh Lalit Lakra	Men’s Featherweight
26	Boxing	Vijender Singh	Men’s Middleweight
27	Boxing	Dinesh Kumar	Men’s Light heavyweight
28	Judo	Khumujam Tombi Devi	Women’s −48 kg
29	Judo	Divya Tewar	Women’s −78 kg
30	Rowing	Bajranglal Takhar	Men’s Single Sculls
31	Rowing	Devender Kumar Khandwal	Men’s Lightweight Double Sculls
32	Rowing	Manjeet Singh	Men’s Lightweight Double Sculls
33	Sailing	Nachhatar Singh Johal	Finn
34	Shooting	Abhinav Bindra	Men’s 10 M Air Rifle
35	Shooting	Samaresh Jung	Men’s 10 M Air Pistol, Men’s 50 M Pistol
36	Shooting	Gagan Narang	Men’s 10 M Air Rifle, Men’s 50 M Rifle Prone, Men’s 50 M Rifle 3 Positions
37	Shooting	Sanjeev Rajput	Men’s 50 M Rifle Prone, Men’s 50 M Rifle 3 Positions
38	Shooting	Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore	Men’s Double Trap
39	Shooting	Manavjit Singh Sandhu	Men’s Trap
40	Shooting	Mansher Singh	Men’s Trap
41	Shooting	Anjali Bhagwat	Women’s 10 M Air Rifle, Women’s 50 M Rifle 3 Positions
42	Shooting	Avneet Kaur Sidhu	Women’s 10 M Air Rifle, Women’s 50 M Rifle 3 Positions
43	Swimming	Virdhawal Khade	Men’s 50 M, 100 M, 200 M Freestyle
44	Swimming	Rehan Poncha	Men’s 200 M Butterfly
45	Swimming	Ankur Poseria	100 M Butterfly
46	Swimming	Sandeep Sejwal	Men’s 100 M, 200 M Breaststroke
47	Table Tennis	Achanta Sharath Kamal	Men’s Singles
48	Table Tennis	Neha Aggarwal	Women’s Singles
49	Tennis	Mahesh Bhupathi	Men’s Doubles
50	Tennis	Leander Paes	Men’s Doubles
51	Tennis	Sania Mirza	Women’s Singles, Women’s Doubles
52	Tennis	Sunitha Rao	Women’s Doubles
53	Wrestling	Yogeshwar Dutt	Men’s −60 kg
54	Wrestling	Sushil Kumar	Men’s −66 kg
55	Wrestling	Rajiv Tomar	Men’s −120 kg

These were the Olympians who appeared for India at Beijing 2008 Summer Games. However, it was only three Olympians, who won a medal (listed below).

Paralympics: India at Beijing 2008 Summer Games

SN	Sport	Paralympian	Event
1	Para-Athletics	Markanda Reddy	Men’s T46- 100 M
2	Para-Athletics	Jagseer Singh	Men’s T46- Long Jump
3	Powerlifting	Farman Basha	Men’s -48 Kg
4	Powerlifting	Rajinder Singh Rahelu	Men’s -60 Kg
5	Para-Shooting	Naresh Sharma	Mixed R6-50 M Free Rifle Prone, Men’s R7-50 M Free Rifle 3X40

These were the paralympians who appeared for India at Beijing 2008 Summer Games. They, however, couldn’t win a medal.

Medalists for India at Beijing 2008 Summer Games

SN	Medal	Olympian	Sport	Event	Date
1	Gold	Abhinav Bindra	Shooting	Men’s 10 M Air Rifle	August 11, 2008
2	Bronze	Vijender Singh	Boxing	Middleweight 75 kg	August 20, 2008
3	Bronze	Sushil Kumar	Wrestling	Men’s Freestyle 66 kg	August 21, 2008

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