Indian Olympics Tale

Abhinav Bhindra -- Rifle Shooting

Abhinav Won the First Gold Medal for India in this olympics in the very starting days of olympics. He won it in the 10m Air Rifle Event. He is India's first gold medallist in an individual event. India's World Cup winning captain and cricketing legend Kapil Dev termed Abhinav Bindra's gold winning feat as the biggest sporting achievement of the country.













Sushil Kumar -- Wrestler

Sushil took on Ukraine's Andriy Stadnik in the first round of 66kg freestyle wrestling event.n the third round, he defeated semifinalist Leonid Spiridonov of Kazakhstan. It was a closely fought encounter that lasted 17:22 minutes.Sushil is only the second Indian wrestler to win the wrestling bronze after Kashabha Jadhav had returned with the medal in 1952 Helsinki Games. This will be after 56 years that an Indian contingent will return with more than one Olympic medal as shooter Abhinav Bindra has won first-ever Games gold medal for the country earlier at the Beijing Games.This is also for the first time that India have won two individual Olympic medals with Bindra winning a Gold in the 10m Air Rifle event.










Jitender -- Boxing

Jitender Kumar went down fighting against Russia's Georgy Balakshin in the quarterfinals of the men's 51 kg category, dashing India's medal hopes in the Olympic Games.Jitender missed a bronze after he lost 11-15 against the Russian opponent.












Vijender -- Boxer

The strapping 23-year-old Vijender is part of Bhiwani's boxing brigade, three of whom have done the country proud by making it to the quarterfinals of the Olympics. Vijender, though, made sure of at least a bronze medal after the disappointing loss of his stable-mates Akhil Kumar and Jitender Kumar.At the 2004 Athens Olympics, Vijender contested in the welterweight division, but lost to Mustafa Karagollu of Turkey.
At the 2006 Commonwealth Games, he defeated England's Neil Perkins in the semis but lost to South Africa's Bongani Mwelase, who went on to win the gold.
He then won silver at the Melbourne Commonwealth Games 2006.
He went up a division and competed in the Middleweight (75 kg) division at the 2006 Asian Games winning the bronze medal in a lost semifinal bout against Kazakhstan's Bakhtiyar Artayev 24-29.
Vijender then qualified for Beijing with a bang, winning gold at the Olympic qualifying tournament in Kazakhstan.



Rajiv Tomar -- Wrestler


Rajiv Tomar crashed out of the 120kg freestyle event of the Beijing Olympics with a comprehensive defeat.He fought a slipshod qualifying round bout against Steve Mocco and the American hardly broke a sweat as he blanked Rajiv 4-0 to show him the exit door.