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India competed
at the 2012 Summer
Olympics in London, United Kingdom,
from 27 July to 12 August 2012. The Indian
Olympic Associationhad sent a total of 83 athletes to compete in 13
sports making it the largest contingent India has ever sent to an Olympic
Games.
The Indian effort to prepare for the
games consisted of funds from the Indian Government to the tune of $48.1
million and an additional $11 million in private sponsorships. Sushil Kumar was
the flag bearer in the opening ceremony and Mary Kom will be the flag bearer at
the closing ceremony.
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India has won 6 medals including 2
silver and 4 bronze which is by far the best performance by India in terms of
number of medals won at any single Olympic games.
Gagan Narang won the country's first
medal at the Games, a bronze in the 10 metre air rifle event.
Vijay Kumar won
a silver medal in men's 25 m rapid fire pistol event and
became the third man ever representing India to win an individual silver medal
after Norman Pritchard and Rajyavardhan
Singh Rathore.
Adding to that, Saina Nehwal, won a bronze medal in women's
singles in badminton. She has become the first Indian to win a medal inBadminton at the Olympics. She is also the second Indian
woman to win an individual medal after Karnam Malleswari's bronze medal inWeightlifting in 2000.
Mary Kom won India its fourth medal at
the games by winning a Bronze in the Women's flyweight category in Boxing.
She is the third Indian woman to win a medal at the Olympics.
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Yogeshwar Dutt by winning a bronze in
the 60 kg Freestyle Wrestling event, won
India the fourth bronze and the fifth medal overall. This is the third
individual medal in wrestling after bronze medals by Sushil Kumar in 2008 and K D Jadhav in 1952.
Sushil Kumar won
the Silver medal in 66 kg Freestyle wrestling. Sushil Kumar is
the first Indian to win an individual medal in back to back Olympics. He had
won a bronze medal in the 2008 Beijing
Olympics in the same category.
INDIAN STARS @ LONDON 2012:-
Medal
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Name
|
Sport
|
Event
|
Date
|
Silver
|
Vijay Kumar
|
Shooting
|
Men's 25 m
rapid fire pistol
|
3 August
|
Silver
|
Men's 66kg
Freestyle
|
12
August
|
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Bronze
|
Gagan Narang
|
Shooting
|
Men's 10 m air
rifle
|
30 July
|
Bronze
|
Saina Nehwal
|
Badminton
|
Women's
singles
|
4
August
|
Bronze
|
Women's
flyweight
|
8 August
|
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Bronze
|
Yogeshwar Dutt
|
Wrestling
|
Men's 60kg
Freestyle
|
11
August
|
MEDALS BY SPORT:-
Medals by sport
|
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Sport
|
GOLD
|
SILVER
|
BRONZE
|
Total
|
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Shooting
|
0
|
1
|
1
|
2
|
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0
|
1
|
1
|
2
|
|||
Badminton
|
0
|
0
|
1
|
1
|
||
0
|
0
|
1
|
1
|
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Total
|
0
|
2
|
4
|
6
|
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