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India at the 2000 Summer Olympics

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IOC code
  
IND

Competitors
  
65 in 8 sports

Website
  
www.olympic.ind.in

Flag bearer
  
Leander Paes

India at the 2000 Summer Olympics

NOC
  
Indian Olympic Association

Medals Ranked 71st
  
Gold Silver Bronze Total 0 0 1 1

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

Contents

Men's competition

Men's 400 m

  • Paramjit Singh
    1. Round 1 - 46.64 (did not advance)

    • Men's 4 × 100 m

  • Rajeev Bala Krishnan, C. Thirugnana Durai, Anil Kumar, Raj Singh Ajay
    1. Round 1 - (did not advance)
    2. Semifinal - (did not advance)
    3. Final - ( place)

    • Men's 4 × 400 m

  • Lijo David Thottan, P. Ramachandran, Jata Shankar, Paramjit Singh
    1. Round 1 - 03:08.38 (did not advance)

    • Men's Shot put

  • Bahadur Singh Sagoo
    1. Qualifying - 18.70 (did not advance)
  • Shakti Singh
    1. Qualifying - 18.40 (did not advance)

    • Men's Javelin Throw

  • Jagdish Bishnoi
    1. Qualifying - 70.86 (did not advance)

    • Men's Long Jump

  • Sanjay K. Rai
    1. Qualifying - NM (did not advance)

    • Women's competition

    Women's 400 m

  • Beena Mol K. M.
    1. Round 1 - 51.51
    2. Round 2 - 51.81
    3. Semifinal - 52.04 (did not advance)

    • Women's 4 × 100 m

  • Saraswati Dey, Rachita Mistry, Vinita Tripathi, Jayalakshmi V.
    1. Round 1 - 45.20 (did not advance)

    • Women's 4 × 400 m

  • Mol K. M. Beena, Paramjit Kaur, Rosa Kutty, Jincy Phillip
    1. Round 1 - 03:31.46 (did not advance)

    • Women's Discus

  • Neelam Jaswant Singh
    1. Qualifying - 55.26 (did not advance)

    • Women's Javelin Throw

  • Gurmeet Kaur
    1. Qualifying - 52.78 (did not advance)

    • Women's Heptathlon

  • Pramila Ganapathy
    1. 100 m Hurdles - 14.22
    2. High Jump - 1.69
    3. Shot Put - 11.14
    4. 200 m - 24.69
    5. Long Jump - 5.96
    6. Javelin Throw - 36.02
    7. 800 m - 02:20.86
    8. Points - 5548 (24th place)
  • Soma Biswas
    1. 100 m Hurdles - 14.11
    2. High Jump - 1.63
    3. Shot Put - 11.69
    4. 200 m - 24.73
    5. Long Jump - 5.64
    6. Javelin Throw - 39.59
    7. 800 m - 02:22.17
    8. Points - 5481 (25th place)

    • Badminton

    Men's Singles

  • Pullela Gopichand
    1. Round of 64: Bye
    2. Round of 32: Defeated Vladislav Druzchenko of Ukraine
    3. Round of 16: Lost to Hendrawan of Indonesia

    • Women's Singles

  • Aparna Popat
    1. Round of 64: Lost to Kelly Morgan of Great Britain

    • Boxing

    Men's Light Flyweight (48 kg)

  • Suresh Singh
    1. Round 1 – Lost to Kim Ki-Suk of South Korea (did not advance)

    • Men's Bantamweight (54 kg)

  • Dingko Singh
    1. Round 1 – Lost to Sergey Danilchenko of Ukraine (did not advance)

    • Men's Middleweight (75 kg)

  • Jitender Kumar
    1. Round 1 – Defeated Donald Orr of Canada
    2. Round 2 – Lost to Adrian Diaconu of Romania (did not advance)

    • Men's Light Heavyweight (81 kg)

  • Gurcharan Singh
    1. Round 1 – Defeated Ki-Soo Choi of South Korea
    2. Round 2 – Defeated Danie Venter of South Africa
    3. Quarterfinal – Lost to Andriy Fedchuk of Ukraine (did not advance)

    • Field hockey

    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. The squad was made up by the following players: 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 and Gagan Ajit Singh

    Judo

    Women's 52 kg

  • Lourembam Brojeshori Devi

    • Swimming

    Men's 200 m Freestyle

  • Hakimuddin Shabbir Habibulla
  • Preliminary Heat - 1:58.35 (did not advance)

    • Women's 200 m Freestyle

  • Nisha Millet
  • Preliminary Heat - 02:08.89 (did not advance)

    • Tennis

    Men's Singles

  • Leander Paes
  • First Round- lost 2–6, 4–6 to Mikael Tillstrom (SWE)

    • Men's Doubles

  • Mahesh Bhupathi & Leander Paes
  • First Round- defeated Andrei Pavel & Gabriel Trifu (ROU) 6–3, 6–4
  • Second Round- lost 3–6, 6–7 to Mark Woodforde & Todd Woodbridge (AUS)

    • Women's Doubles

  • Manisha Malhotra & Nirupama Vaidyanathan
  • First Round- lost 0–6, 0–6 to Jelena Dokic & Rennae Stubbs (AUS)

    • Weightlifting

    Men


    Women

    Women

    References

    India at the 2000 Summer Olympics Wikipedia
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