India National Thread

[RickygoestoRio 0]

great performance from Santosh Kumar.He stands 4th in the overall standings!best wishes fr semis.
Aftab Alam created a personal best record.

[Harit Garg 1]

14 minutes ago, RickygoestoRio said:

great performance from Santosh Kumar.He stands 4th in the overall standings!best wishes fr semis.
Aftab Alam created a personal best record.

Stands 5th after completion of all heats.

[RickygoestoRio 0]

Aftab Alam qualifies too.

[Harit Garg 1]

5 minutes ago, RickygoestoRio said:

Aftab Alam qualifies too.

Good thing is both Aftab Alam and Santosh Kumar gives their personal best.

 

[sameerph 5]

I was looking at ranking across sports for our players/ teams . I think we can consider those in top 15 to have some chance of getting among medals at Rio, these are the players who are ranked within that range -

Shooting
Jitu Rai - 3rd in 10M air pistol, 2nd in 50 m pistol
Abhinav Bindra - 13th in 10M air rifle
Gagan Narang - 11th in 50M rifle 3 positions
Mairaj Ahmed Khan - 9th in Skeet

There are 2 more shooters - Sanjeev Rajput and Pooja Ghatkar who are among top 10 but are not part of Rio squad.

Archery
Womens team - 4th
Deepika Kumari - 12th
Laxmirani Manjhi - 15th

Badminton
Saina Nahwal -5th
PV Sindhu - 10th (9th among those qualified for Rio)
K Srikanth - 11th (9th among those qualified for Rio)

Tennis
Mixed doubles - there are no world rankings for mixed doubles. But if there were, I am sure Rohan-Sania would be among top 10.

Boxing
Shiva Thapa - 6th
Vikas Krishnan - 6th

Wrestling
Narsingh Yadav - 9th
Yogeshwar Dutt - 9th
Vinesh - 13th

Mens hockey team - 5th ( For a team event, I do not consider top 15 as having a chance of a medal , therefore not including 13th ranked Indian womens team)

That makes it a total of 17 events.

To this I would add -

Tennis mixed doubles- there are no rankings for those but if there were I am sure Rohan-Sania would be in top 10.
Gymnastics- Deepa Karmakar was 5th in the last world championships in vault
Weighlifitng - Meerabai Chani has the 4th best lift this year.
Archery - Atanu Das finished 4th and lost to the world champion Korean in the last world cup
Shooting - Gurpreet Singh in rapid fire and 10M pistol, Manavjeet Sandhu /Kynan Chenai in mens trap, Apurvi Chandela/Ayonika Paul in womens 10 M air rifle, Gagan Narang- 10M Air rifle, Heena Siddhu in 10 M air pistol - all have won medals in world level events in last couple of years. So, considering the variability of results in shooting, they can shine on a given day at Rio.

I am not including anyone in athletics despite some staggering results by mens relay ream and mens jumpers.

So, it would make a total of 28 in starting lists with a shot at a medal.

However, uncertain part is most of them would require to improve on their rankings/ current position and over perform to finish among medals. Our athletes did that in London where we had even lower medal contenders. If they do that again and about 1/4th of the above do that , we may be looking at improving our medal tally above the London tally of 6.
The downside is if everyone performs exactly as per their rankings, we may end with 2-3 medals too.

 

Realistically, we are looking at a range between 2-8 medals for us at Rio.

 

I hope the more optimistic scenario materialises.

Edited July 21, 2016 by sameerph

[Vaibhav (minchu) 2]

11 minutes ago, sameerph said:

Gagan Narang - 11th in 50M rifle 3 positions
 

Should be 50M prone?

[Vaibhav (minchu) 2]

Just to add on to above posts... its fair ranking can be a criteria to judge the potential. But for shooting - its way more unpredictable than even boxing 

For instance:  Moldoveanue who won 10m Air Rifle last time was ranked outside top 30 then!
A quick glance at 50m3P shows Sanjeev at 8th (a straight jump from 66th based on a single good showing in Gabala) whereas Campriani at 17th. 

[rohan sharma 7]

‪#‎RIO16‬
As only 14 Day left for RIO OLYMPIC here is schdule for 0th and 1st day ( 3 gold medal out for india on day 1)
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‪#‎0th‬ day - Friday 5 August 2016 
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Men's individual - Ranking round (Atanu Dass)
Women's individual - Ranking round ( Deepika kumari,Laxmirani majhi,Bombayla devi)
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‪#‎1st‬ Day - Saturday 6 August 2016
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‪#‎Hockey‬
India Vs Ireland
‪#‎Rowing‬
Mens Single sculls - Heat - Dattu Baban Bhokanal
‪#‎Shooting‬
Women's 10 m air rifle - Apurvi Chandela , Ayonika Paul
Men's 10 m air pistol - Jitu Rai , Gurpreet Singh
‪#‎TableTennis‬
Mens Single Preliminary rounds - Sharath Kamal Achant,Soumyajit Ghosh
Womens Single Preliminary rounds - Mouma Das,Manika Batra
‪#‎Tennis‬
Men's doubles Round of 32 - Rohan Bopanna , Leander Paes
Women's doubles Round of 32 - Sania Mirza , Prarthana 
‪#‎Weightlifting‬
Women's 48 kg - Saikhom Mirabai Chanu
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so it will be acion pack day 1 for india

 

 

Edited July 21, 2016 by rohan sharma

[sameerph 5]

1 hour ago, Vaibhav (minchu) said:

Just to add on to above posts... its fair ranking can be a criteria to judge the potential. But for shooting - its way more unpredictable than even boxing 

For instance:  Moldoveanue who won 10m Air Rifle last time was ranked outside top 30 then!
A quick glance at 50m3P shows Sanjeev at 8th (a straight jump from 66th based on a single good showing in Gabala) whereas Campriani at 17th. 

 

Fully agree. Ranking has less of a meaning in shooting. But, still some indicator of current form of the shooters. For instance, on their day even the likes of Apruvi Chandela, Heena Siddhu & Chain Singh can spring a surprise but their current form has been poor which reflects in the rankings.

 

We need some surprises in shooting. I think if we have to exceed our London tally of 6 medals, we need at least 3 medals from shooting. 

[Sanjib 17]

Who can be the surprise medal winner this time round? Last time it was Vijay.