1996 Summer Olympics / Participant (India)

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India participated in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta , USA , with a delegation of 49 athletes (40 men and nine women).

Medalist

With a bronze medal won the Indian team was ranked 71 in the medal count .

bronze

• Leander Paes : tennis , men's singles

Participants by sport

badminton

• Dipankar Bhattacharjee

  Individual: 17th place

• PVV Lakshmi

  Women, singles: 17th place

Archery

• Changte Lalremsaga

  Singles: 25th place

  Team: 14th place

• Skalzang Dorje

  Singles: 47th place

  Team: 14th place

• Limba Ram

  Individual: 63rd place

  Team: 14th place

Boxing

• Debendra Thapa

  Light flyweight: 17th place

• Gurcharan Singh

  Light heavyweight: 17th place

Weightlifting

• Badathala Adisekhar

  Flyweight: 18th place

• Raghavan Chanderasekaran

  Bantamweight: 11th place

• Sandeep Kumar

  Featherweight: 33rd place

• Samsudeen Kabeer

  Lightweight: 23rd place

• Satheesha Rai

  Middleweight: 15th place

• Lakha Singh

  Heavyweight: 17th place

hockey

• Men's team

  8th place

• Squad

  Subbaiah Anjaparavanda

  Harpreet Singh

  Riaz Nabi Muhammad

  Sanjeev Kumar

  Baljit Singh Saini

  Sabu Varkey

  Mukesh Kumar Nandanoori

  Rahul Singh

  Dhanraj Pillay

  Pargat Singh

  Baljit Singh Dhillon

  Alloysius Edwards

  Anil Alexander Aldrin

  Gavin Ferreira

  Ramandeep Singh Grewal

  Dilip Kumar Tirkey

Judo

• Narinder Singh

  Extra light weight: 21st place

• Najib Aga

  Half light weight: 13th place

• Sunith Thakur

  Women, half light weight: 14th place

• Shah Kohli

  Women, heavyweight: 13th place

athletics

• Bahadur Prasad

  1,500 meters: heats

• Shakti Singh

  Discus throw: 30th place in qualification

• Kalayathumkuzhi Beenamol

  Women, 4 × 100 meters: heats

• Rosa Kutty Kunnath

  Women, 4 × 100 meters: heats

• Jyotirmoyee Sikdar

  Women, 4 × 100 meters: heats

• Shiny Abraham-Wilson

  Women, 4 × 100 meters: heats

horse riding

• Indrajit Lamba

  Versatility, individual: eliminated

Wrestling

• Pappu Jadav

  Flyweight, Greco-Roman: 17th place

shoot

• Jaspal Rana

  Air pistol: 29th place

  Free target pistol: 45th place

• Mansher Singh

  Trap: 31st place

swim

• Sebastian Xavier

  50 meter freestyle: 49th place

• Sangeeta Puri

  Women, 50 meters freestyle: 48th place

tennis

• Leander Paes

  Single: bronze

  Doubles: 9th place

• Mahesh Bhupathi

  Doubles: 9th place

Table tennis

• Chetan Baboor

  Individual: 49th place

• Ambika Radhika

  Women, singles: 49th place

Web links

• Indian Olympic team from 1996 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )