Wonderful Success Journey of Indian Sport Heroes in 2012 London Olympic,Who Make us Proud |
Wonderful Journey
of Indian Sport Persons in 2012 London
Olympic:
Although
Indian Players failed to achieve Gold Medal like previous Beijing Olympic 2008
but London Olympic is most memorable Indian sport experience by Achieving
highest number of medal ( Total 6: Silver 2 : Bronze 4) in the Olympic History.
Indian Finishes 55 rank among the world in recent Olympic Game. Along with the
great performance of the Indian Players
which help them to achieve medals in London Olympic 2012 ( Which I discuss in detail below) some Indian players
also marked with very poor performance in this Olympic Games 2012 caused
loosing more medals. Hope Those Poor Performance(Given below) will recover in
the next Olympic In Brazil (Rio De janeiro).
Poor
Performance of Indian Player:
1) India
Hockey Team Finishes Last after loosing all Games in Olympic.
2) Due to
the arrogant and bad behavior of tennis player Mahesh Bhupathi with His most
Famous and Successful double partner Leander Paes caused loosing of one sure
medal from Men`s Doubles Tennis Category. Hope Next Time Mahesh will play
with his partner Leandar Paes for the
shake of the Country.
Indian archery team (Paper Tiger) |
3) Indian
archery team (Both Men and Women) become
Paper Tiger after very poor performance in all category of archery
in London Olympic 2012.
4) None
of the Men Boxer achieve medal in London Olympic 2012 and failed to stand in
country`s expectation .
Great Success story of Indian Six Sport Heroes however covered up
Those above mentioned failures of Indian Players in London Olympics 2012. These
success story will set a foundation of Inspiration for future Sports persons of
India and We Will hope for more Medals
in Forthcoming Olympic Games.
Indian
Six Sport Heroes in Lodon Olympic Games 2012
Sushil
Kumar:
Sushil
Kumar (born May 26, 1983) is an Indian World Champion wrestler who won the gold
medal in the 66 kg freestyle competition at the FILA 2010 World Wrestling
Championships, a silver medal in the Men's 66kg Freestyle Wrestling event at
the 2012 London Olympics and a bronze medal in the Men's 66kg Freestyle
Wrestling event at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, which made him the first Indian
to win back to back individual Olympic medals.Sushil Kumar competed against
Tatsuhiro Yonemitsu of Japan in the London Olympics finals. Kumar defeated
Leonid Spiridonov of Kazakhstan in the repechage round to win the bronze in
Beijing Olympics. This was the second medal for India in wrestling, and the
first since K D Jadhav's bronze medal at the 1952 Helsinki Olympic Games. On July
2009, he received the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna - India's highest honour for
sportspersons.
Sushil
Kumar belongs to a Jat family who comes from the village Baprola near Najafgarh
in South West Delhi. Kumar's father Diwan Singh was a DTC bus driver and mother
Kamla Devi a housewife. He was inspired to take up wrestling by his cousin
Sandeep and his father who was himself a pehlwan (wrestler). Sandeep quit
wrestling as the family could only support one wrestler.With minimal funds and
poor training facilities for wrestling in India, even for the 2008 Olympic
team, his family made sure he obtained the necessary dietary supplements by
sending him tinned milk, ghee and vegetables He is a vegetarian. Kumar is
presently employed to the Indian Railways as Assistant Commercial Manager
Career:
Kumar
started training at the Chhatrasal Stadium's akhada at the age of 14. Trained
at the akhada by Indian pehlwans Yashvir and Ramphal, and later by Arjuna
awardee Satpal and then at the Railways camp by coach Gyan Singh,Sushil endured
tough training conditions which included sharing a mattress with a fellow
wrestler and sharing a dormitory with twenty others. at the age of 18 he become
state champ.
His first
success came at the World Cadet Games in 1998 where he won the gold medal in
his weight category. He followed this up with a gold in the Asian Junior
Wrestling Championship in 2000.
Sushil Kumar |
Moving
out of the junior competition, Sushil Kumar won the bronze medal at the Asian
Wrestling Championships in 2003 and followed that up with a gold medal at the
Commonwealth Wrestling Championships. Sushil Kumar placed fourth in the World
Championships in 2003, but this went largely unnoticed by the Indian media as
he fared badly in the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, in the 60 kg class placing
14th. He won gold medals at the Commonwealth Wrestling Championships in 2005
and 2007. He ranked seventh in the 2007 World Wrestling Championships and won a
bronze medal in 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. He also qualified for 2012
Summer Olympics taking place at London and won a silver medal by defeating a
wrestler from kazakistan.He became the firs Indian to win 2 Olympic medals.
Sushil Kumar was awarded the Arjuna Award in 2006.
Vijay Kumar
Vijay
Kumar (born 19 August 1985) is a sport shooter from India. He won the silver
medal in the individual 25 metre rapid fire pistol event at the 2012 Summer
Olympics. Kumar hails from Barsar village of Hamirpur district of Himachal
Pradesh and is presently a serving subedar in the Dogra Regiment (16th
Battalion) Indian Army. Vijay Kumar is currently supported by the Olympic Gold
Quest initiative. He has been posted at Army Marksmanship Unit (AMU) Mhow since
2003 where he is being coached by the Russian Pavel Smirnov.
Career:
At the
2006 Commonwealth Games, he had won 2 gold medals, the individual 25 meter
rapid fire pistol competition and the pairs competition in the same event
together with Pemba Tamang. The same year, he won a bronze medal in the Asian
Games despite actually finishing fourth because of a rule that prevented China
from winning all three medals. The next year, he finished second at the Asian
Championship in 25 metre center-fire pistol. He also won a silver medal at the
2009 ISSF World Cup Beijing in rapid fire pistol, where he was defeated by
Keith Sanderson by 0.1 points. In the 2010 Commonwealth Games, held in the
capital of his home country, he won 3 gold medals and one silver.
Giving a
stupendous performance, Vijay Kumar won 3 gold medals and a silver medal in the
2010 Commonwealth Games.
Vijay
Kumar won the Silver Medal in the 25 m rapid fire pistol event at 2012 London
Olympics.He finished with an average score of 9.767. Kumar has a score of 293
with 7 inner 10s in the first stage. Vijay's silver was the second medal for
India at London 2012.
Mary Kom
Mangte
Chungneijang Mary Kom, (born 1 March 1983 in Manipur), also known as MC Mary
Kom, Magnificent Mary or simply Mary Kom, is an Indian boxer.She is a five-time
World Boxing champion, and the only woman boxer to have won a medal in each one
of the six world championships. She is the only Indian woman boxer to have
qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics, competing in the flyweight (51kg)
category and winning the bronze medal.
She has also been ranked as No. 4 AIBA World Women's Ranking Flyweight
category.
Early life
and family
Mary was
born in Kangathei, Manipur. Her parents, Mangte Tonpa Kom and Mangte Akham Kom,
worked in jhum fields. She completed her
primary education from Loktak Christian Model High School, Moirang, up to her
class VI standard and attended St. Xavier Catholic School, Moirang, up to class
VIII. She then moved to Adimjati High School, Imphal, for her schooling for
class IX and X, but could not pass her exam. She did not want to reappear for
her exams so she quit her school and gave her examination from NIOS, Imphal and
graduation from Churachandpur College.
Although
she had a keen interest in athletics from childhood, it was the success of
Dingko Singh that inspired her to become a boxer in 2000. She is married to K
Onler Kom and has twin sons, Rechungvar and Khupneivar.
Career:
Her
international debut was at the first AIBA Women's World Boxing Championship in
the United States, where she won a silver medal in the 48 kg weight category.
She followed this with a gold medal in the 45 kg class at the second AIBA
Women's World Boxing Championship in Turkey in 2002.
In 2003,
Kom won a gold medal in the 46 kg class - she would compete in this class for
the next three years - at the Asian Women's Boxing Championship in India, and
was awarded the national Arjuna Award for outstanding sporting achievement. In
2004, she won gold at the Women's Boxing World Cup in Norway, and in 2005 again
won gold at the Asian Women's Boxing Championship in Taiwan and the AIBA
Women's World Boxing Championship in Russia. The following year, she won gold
at the Venus Women's Box Cup in Denmark and the AIBA Women's World Boxing
Championship in India. Her victory in the World Championship was marred by
illness; the final had to be suspended in the second round, with Kom leading
19-4.
Mary, a
five-time world champion, had won several medals in the 46 and 48kg categories.
She was forced to shift to this category and gain weight two years ago after
the world body decided to allow women’s boxing in only three weight
categories—the lowest one being 51kg.
The first
Olympic round was held on 5 August 2012, with Kom defeating Karolina Michalczuk
of Poland 19-14 in the third women's boxing match ever to be fought at the
Olympics. In the quarter-final, the following day, she defeated Maroua Rahali
of Tunisia with a score of 15-6. She faced Nicola Adams of UK in the semi-final
on August 8, 2012 and lost the bout 6 points to 11. However, she stood third in
the competition and garnered her first olympic Bronze medal.
Gagan
Narang:
is an ace
Indian shooter, especially in Air rifle shooting, supported by the Olympic Gold
Quest. He was the first Indian to qualify for the London Olympics. He won the
Bronze Medal in the Men's 10 m Air Rifle Event at the 2012 Summer Olympics in
London with a final score of 701.1 on 30 July 2012.
Early life
and background
He was
born in Chennai on 6th May 1983 and his ancestors belonged to Samalkha in
Panipat district in Haryana. His grandfather then moved from Panipat to
Hyderabad. His parents are Bhimsen Narang and Amarjit. Though Gagan Narang was
born in Chennai, he was raised in Hyderabad. He touched the gun for the first
time at his age of six for shooting down balloons at Chennai Marina Beach
carnival.
Career
Gagan
Narang is a gold medalist in the Afro Asian games, 2003 in Hyderabad on October
26, 2003 in Men's 10m air rifle competition. He had won an air rifle gold medal
at the World Cup 2006 and followed that event in April 2010.
In a
pre-Olympic event in Hannover, Germany, Gagan shot a panis air rifle score
higher than the world record, 704.3 as opposed to 703.1 set by Thomas Farnik of
Austria in the World Cup 2006.
On
November 4, 2008 he broke Austria's Thomas Farnik's record, set in the 2006
World Cup final in Granada, Spain. Gagan said his win was special because
Barack Obama, who won the United States' Presidential election on same day, was
a source of inspiration.Gagan Narang added 4 gold medals to the Indian tally at
the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi. Gagan also clinched a silver medal in
his pet event at the Asian Games 2010.
Gagan
Narang won the bronze medal in the 10m air rifle event at the 2012 London
Olympics with a total score of 701.1 becoming India's first medal winner at the
2012 games. Gagan was just behind the silver medallist Niccolo Campriani of
Italy who scored 701.5, while the gold medallist Alin George Moldoveanu of
Romania was at 702.1.
Yogeshwar
Dutt:
He won
the bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Men's 60kg Freestyle
wrestling. He comes from Bhainswal village of Sonipat district, Haryana and his
parents were teachers. He started wrestling from a very young age of 8 years.
His inspiration was Balraj Pehlwan who was from his native village and he was
trained under the guidance of coach Ramphal.
Career:
Yogeshwar
Dutt won the Gold Medal in the 2003 Commonwealth Wrestling Championship.
Yogeshwar had lost his father on August 3, 2006 just nine days before he
boarded the flight to Doha for the Asian Games. He also sustained a knee
injury, but despite all the emotional and physical trauma he managed to win the
bronze in the 60 kilogram category at the 15th Asian Games at Doha.
At the
2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games, Yogeshwar overcame a career-threatening knee
injury to win the 60kg title. Yogeshwar, who went past Australian Farzad Tarash
(6-0, 7-0), South African Marius Loots (7-1) and England's Sasha Madyarchyk
(4-4, 8-0) on his way to the final, came up with an exceptionally skillful
performance to win the gold for India.
At the
Olympics he had lost to the Russian B Kudukhov 1-0, 2-0 and was knocked out
from the pre-quaterfinal round. He got a chance to contest in the repechage
rounds as Kudukhov reached the finals of the event.
In his
first repechage round he went on to beat Franklin Gómez of Puerto Rico with a
score of 1-0, 1-0. He had gotten lucky against his opponent, winning the toss
on both the occasions to earn a clinch position. Yogeshwar then scored 7-5 to
beat Mahmoud Masoud Esmaeilpour Jouybari with an aggregate of counted points
3-1 in Repechage Round 2.
Yogeshwar
won a Bronze medal in the Men's freestyle 60 kg at the 2012 London Olympics. He
had defeated North Korean Ri Jong-Myong in the bronze medal bout thus winning
the fifth medal for Indian contingent at the London Olympics 2012.
Saina
Nehwal:
currently
ranked 4 in the world by Badminton World Federation. Saina is the first Indian
to win a medal in Badminton at the Olympics. She achieved this feat by winning
the Bronze medal at the London Olympics 2012 on 4 August 2012. She is the first
Indian to win the World Junior Badminton Championships. Saina was also the
first Indian to win a Super Series tournament, by clinching the Indonesia Open
with a victory over higher-ranked Chinese Wang Lin in Jakarta on June 21, 2009.
Saina is supported by the Olympic Gold Quest.
Early
Life:
Saina
Nehwal was born in a Jat family to Dr.
Harvir Singh Nehwal and Usha Nehwal in the city of Hisar, Haryana and completed
first few years of her schooling from Campus School. Harvir singh initially
worked in CCS HAU and they then had their residence in the University Campus.
He later shifted to Hyderabad & so Saina spent her growing years in
Hyderabad, India. Her foray into the world of badminton was influenced by her
father Dr. Harvir Singh, a scientist at the Directorate of Oilseeds Research,
Hyderabad and her mother Usha Nehwal, both of whom were former badminton
champions in Haryana. She is the top ranked player (women) in Indian Badminton
history.
Career:
Saina won
her second career Super Series title by winning the Singapore Open title on
June 20, 2010. She completed a hat-trick in the same year by winning the
Indonesian Open on June 27, 2010. This win resulted in her rise to 3rd ranking
and subsequently to No. 2. Later in the same year she also won Hong Kong Super
Series on December 12, 2010. After experiencing a poor 2011 season, Saina
become the first Indian singles player to reach the summit stage of year-ending
Super Series Finals defeating two-time All England champion and former World
No. 1 Tine Baun in the semi-finals, a feat she repeated in the quarterfinals in
the London Olympics 2012. Though she lost in the semi-finals of London Olympics
2012 to Wang Yihan, she secured the bronze medal against Wang Xin. After Xin
won the first game 21-18, Xin had to walk out of the match due to aggravation
of her knee injury, thus making Saina the winner.
Previously
coached by S. M. Arif, a Dronacharya Award winner, Saina is the reigning Indian
national junior champion and is currently coached by Indonesian badminton
legend Atik Jauhari since August 2008, with the former All England champion and
national coach Pullela Gopichand being her mentor.
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