2000 Summer Olympics / Participant (India)

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India took part in the 2000 Summer Olympics in the Australian metropolis of Sydney with 65 athletes, 21 women and 44 men, in eight sports.

It was the 20th participation of the Asian state in the Summer Olympics since 1900 .

Flag bearer

Tennis player Leander Paes carried the flag of India during the opening ceremony at Stadium Australia .

Medalist

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

bronze

Surname	sport	competition
Karnam Malleswari	Weightlifting	Lightweight (up to 69 kg)

Participants by sport

badminton

• Pulella Gopichand

  Men, singles: 3rd round

• Aparna Popat

  Women, singles: 1st round

Boxing

• Ngangim Dingko Singh

  Bantamweight: 1st round

• Jitender Kumar

  Middleweight: 2nd round

• Gurcharan Singh

  Light Heavyweight: Quarter Finals

• Soubam Suresh Singh

  Light flyweight: 1st round

Weightlifting

• Karnam Malleswari

  Women, light heavyweight: bronze

• Thandava Murthy Muthu

  Men, bantamweight: 16th place

• Thing Baijan Sanamacha Chanu

  Women, featherweight: 6th place

hockey

• Men's team

  7th place

• Squad

  Lajarus Barla

  Devesh Chauhan (without commitment)

  Samir dad

  Jew Menezes

  Riaz Nabi Muhammad

  Mukesh Kumar Nandanoori

  Dinesh Nayak

  Dhanraj Pillay

  Thirumal Valavan Selvaraj

  Baljit Singh Dhillon

  Sukhbir Singh Gill

  Ramandeep Singh Grewal

  Baljit Singh Saini

  Gagan Ajit Singh

  Deepak Thakur Sonkhla

  Dilip Kumar Tirkey

Judo

• Lourembam Brojeshori Devi

  Women, half light weight: 9th place

athletics

• Kalayathumkuzhi Beenamol

  Women, 400 meters: semi-finals

  Women, 4 × 400 meters: prelims

• Jagdish Bishnoi

  Men, javelin: 30th place in qualification

• Soma Biswas

  Women, heptathlon: 25th place

• Saraswati Dey-Saha

  Women, 4 × 100 meters: heats

• Thirugnan Durai

  Men, 4 × 100 meters: prelims

• Prameela Ganapathy

  Women, heptathlon: 24th place

• Valdivel Jayalakshmi

  Women, 4 × 100 meters: heats

• Gurmeet Kaur

  Women, javelin: 32nd place in qualification

• Paramjit Kaur

  Women, 4 × 100 meters: heats

• Rajeev Bala Krishnan

  Men, 4 × 100 meters: prelims

• Rosa Kutty Kunnath

  Women, 4 × 400 meters: prelims

• Rachita Mistry

  Women, 4 × 100 meters: heats

• Jincy Phillip

  Women, 4 × 100 meters: heats

• Anil Kumar Prakash

  Men, 4 × 100 meters: prelims

• Sanjay Kumar Rai

  Men, long jump: not a valid jump in qualification

• Purukottam Ramachandran

  Men, 4 × 400 meters: prelims

• Jata Shankar

  Men, 4 × 400 meters: prelims

• Ajay Raj Singh

  Men, 4 × 100 meters: prelims

• Bahadur Singh

  Men, shot put: 27th place in qualification

• Paramjit Singh

  Men, 400 meters: heats

  Men, 4 × 400 meters: prelims

• Shakti Singh

  Men, shot put: 32nd place in qualification

• Neelam Jaswant Singh Dogra

  Women, discus throwing: 26th place in qualification

• Lijo David Thottan

  Men, 4 × 400 meters: prelims

• Vinita Tripathi

  Women, 4 × 100 meters: heats

horse riding

• Imtiaz Anees

  Versatility, singles: 23rd place

Wrestling

• Gurbinder Singh

  Lightweight, Greco-Roman: 13th place

rowing

• Kasam Khan

  Men, twos without a helmsman: hope run

• Inderpal Singh

  Men, twos without a helmsman: hope run

shoot

• Abhinav Bindra

  Men, air rifle: 11th place

• Anwer Sultan

  Men, Trap: 26th place

• Jaspal Rana

  Women, air rifle: 8th place

  Women, small caliber, three-position fight: 33rd place

swim

• Hakimuddin Shabbir Habibulla

  Men, 200 meters freestyle: 50th place

• Nisha Millet

  Women, 200 meters freestyle: 37th place

tennis

• Mahesh Bhupathi

  Men, doubles: 2nd round

• Leander Paes

  Men, singles: 1st round

  Men doubles: 2nd round

• Manisha Malhotra

  Women, doubles: 2nd round

• Nirupama Vaidyanathan

  Women, doubles: 2nd round

Table tennis

• Chetan Baboor

  Men, singles: 33rd place

  Men, doubles: 25th place

• Raman Subramanyan

  Men, doubles: 25th place

• Poulomi Ghatak

  Women, singles: 49th place

Web links

• Indian Olympic team from 2000 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )