India at the 1996 Summer Olympics

India competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States. Leander Paes' bronze in the men's tennis event was the only medal won by the country. It had been 44 years since an Indian last won an individual medal at the Olympics (K. D. Jadhav earned bronze for freestyle bantamweight wrestling at the 1952 Summer Olympics, Helsinki). The medal was also India's first since their men's hockey team won gold at the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

India at the 1996 Summer Olympics
IOC code	IND
NOC	Indian Olympic Association
Website	www.olympic.ind.in
in Atlanta
Competitors	49 in 13 sports
Flag bearer	Pargat Singh (opening) Leander Paes (closing)
Medals Ranked 71st	Gold 0 Silver 0 Bronze 1 Total 1
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
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Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Bronze	Leander Paes	Tennis	Men's singles	- Aug 03

Contingent by sport

Sport	men	women	events
Archery	3	0	2
Athletics	2	4	3
Badminton	1	1	2
Boxing	3	0	3
Hockey	16	0	1
Judo	2	1	3
Shooting	2	0	3
Swimming	1	0	1
Tennis	2	0	2
Weightlifting	5	0	5
Wrestling	1	0	1
10 sports	38 men	05 women	25 events

Results by event

Archery

In India's third appearance in Olympic archery, the nation was represented by three men. Lalremsanga Chhangte was the only one to win a match.

Men's Individual Competition:

• Changte Lalremsaga — Round of 32, 25th place (1-1)
• Skalzang Dorje — Round of 64, 47th place (0-1)
• Limba Ram — Round of 64, 63rd place (0-1)

Men's Team Competition:

• Chhangte, Dorje, and Limba Ram — Round of 16, 14th place (0-1)

Athletics

Men's Discus Throw

• Shakti Singh

• Qualification — 56.58m (→ did not advance)

Women's 4 × 400 metres relay

• Beenamol Mathew, Rosakutty Kunnath Chacko, Jyotirmoyee Sikdar, and Shiny Wilson

• Qualification — DSQ (→ did not advance)

Men's 1500 Meter

• Bahadur Prasad (IND)3:46.16 (→ did not advance)

Badminton

Women's singles Competition

• PVV Lakshimi
  1. Round of 64 Defeated Anne Gibson Great Britain (11-6, 11-6)
  2. Round of 32 Lost Katarzyna Krasowska Poland (5-11, 6-11)

Men's singles Competition

• Deepankar Bhattacharya
  1. Round of 64 Bye
  2. Round of 32 Lost Heryanto Arbi Indonesia {5-15, 4_15}

Boxing

Men's Light Flyweight (48 kg)

• Thapa Debendra
  1. First Round — Lost to Makepula Masibulele (South Africa) after referee stopped contest in first round

Men's Light Heavyweight (81 kg)

• Gurcharn Singh
  1. First Round — Lost to Enrique Flores (Puerto Rico), 7-15

Men's Heavyweight (91 kg)

• Lakha Singh
  1. First Round — Lost to Woiciech Bartnik (Poland), 2-14

Men's Team Competition

• Preliminary Round (Group A):

• India – Argentina 0 - 1
• India – Germany 1 - 1
• India – United States 4 - 0
• India – Pakistan 0 - 0
• India – Spain 3 - 1

• Classification Matches:

• 5th/8th place: India – South Korea 3 - 3 (South Korea wins after penalty strokes, 5 - 3)
• 7th/8th place: India – Great Britain 3 - 4 → 8th place

• Team Roster:

• Subbaiah Anjaparavanda
• Harpreet Singh
• Mohammed Riaz
• Sanjeev Kumar
• Baljeet Singh
• Sabu Varkey
• Mukesh Kumar
• Rahul Singh
• Dhanraj Pillay
• Pargat Singh (captain)
• Baljit Singh Dhillon
• Alloysuis Edwards
• Anil Alexander
• Gavin Ferreira
• Ramandeep Singh
• Dilip Tirkey

Judo

Men's 60 kg

• Narender Singh

Men's 65 kg

• Najib Aga

Women's 52 kg

• Sunith Thakur

Shooting

• Jaspal Rana - 45th position in 50 metre pistol
• Jaspal Rana - 29th position in 10 metre air pistol
• Mansher Singh - 31st position in Trap.

Swimming

Men's 50m Freestyle

• Sebastian Xavier
  1. Heat – 23.80 (→ did not advance, 44th place)

Tennis

Men's Singles Competition

• Leander Paes → Bronze Medal
  1. First round — Defeated Richey Reneberg (United States) 6-7 7-6 1-0 retired
  2. Second round — Defeated Nicolas Pereira (Venezuela) 6-2 6-3
  3. Third round — Defeated Thomas Enqvist (Sweden) 7-5 7-6
  4. Quarter Finals — Defeated Renzo Furlan (Italy) 6-1 7-5
  5. Semi Finals — Lost to Andre Agassi (United States) 6-7 3-6
  6. Bronze Medal Match — Defeated Fernando Meligeni (Brazil) 3-6 6-2 6-4

Men's Doubles Competition

• Mahesh Bhupathi & Leander Paes
  1. First round — Defeated Pan Bing & Xia Jiaping (China) 4-6 6-4 6-4
  2. Second round —Lost T. Woodbridge & M. Woodforde (Australia) 6-4 2-6 2-6

Weightlifting

Men's 54 kg

• Badathala Adisekhar

• Final — 105.0 + 125.0 = 230.0(→ 18 place)

Men's 59 kg

• Raghavan Chandrasekharan

• Final — 112.5 + 140.0 = 252.5(→ 11 place)

Men's 64 kg

• Sandeep Kumar

• Final — 110.0+ 142.5= 252.5(→ 33 place)

Men's 70 kg

• Samsudeen Kabeer

• Final — 125.0+ 150.0= 275.0(→ 23 place)

Men's 76 kg

• Satheesha Rai

• Final — 140.0+ 177.5= 317.5(→15 place)

Wrestling

Men's Greco-Roman 52 kg Pappu Yadav

References

• (ed.) Watkins, Ginger T. (1997). The Official Report of the Centennial Olympic Games, Volume III The Competition Results (PDF). Atlanta: Peachtree Publishers. ISBN 1-56145-150-9. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2008-02-05.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)