India Beijing Journey- The In And Out

22 Aug, 2008
Indian Boxer Vijendra kumar Lost His semi-final bout against Cuba’s Emilio Bayeux Correa and Won the Bronze medal.

21 Aug, 2008
India’s ace freestyle grappler Rajiv Tomar made an early exit after losing to Steve Mocco of US in the men’s 120 kg freestyle qualification round at the Beijing Olympics.

21 Aug, 2008
Vijender fought a great tactical bout, playing that ‘defend and wait’ game to perfection against Ecuadorian Carlos Gongora.

20 Aug, 2008
The 66-kg freestyle wrestler Sushil Kumar, who lost his first bout in the round of 16, went through three repechage contests to win India’s first bronze in wrestling since 1952.Sushil Kumar won the bronze medal after beating Kazakhstan’s Spiridonav in a play-off in the men’s 66 kg freestyle wrestling through repechage round.

20 Aug, 2008
India’s ace pugilist Jitender Kumar lost to Russian Georgy Balakshin in the men’s 51 kg flyweight quarter-finals in Beijing.

20 Aug, 2008
Achanta Sharath Kamal failed to advance to the next round after losing to Austria’s Weixing Chen in the men’s singles event.

19 Aug, 2008
Indian table-tennis player Achanta Sharath Kamal won first round match in men’s singles event of Beijing Olympics after beating Alfredo Carneros of Spain 4-2.

19 Aug, 2008
India’s challenge at the 60 kg men’s freestyle wrestling came to a dismal end with Yogeshwar Dutt went down to Kenichi Yumoto of Japan.

19 Aug, 2008
Anju Bobby George too could not qualify for the event

18 Aug, 2008
India’s top pugilist Akhil Kumar crashed out of the Beijing Olympics after losing at the hands of Moldova’s Veaceslav Gojan in the quarter-finals of the men’s 54 kg bantamweight category.

18 Aug, 2008
India’s triple jumper Renjith Maheswary failed to qualify for men’s triple jump finals after leaping the best distance of 15.77 m in the qualifying round.

18 Aug, 2008
India’s promising paddler Neha Aggarwal made an early exit as she failed to advance to the next round after losing to Australia’s Fang Lay in the women’s singles event at the Beijing Olympics.

17 Aug, 2008
Surendra Singh’s hopes of a top 10 finish went up in smoke as the Indian finished the energy sapping 10,000m race at the 26th place.

17 Aug, 2008
India’s shooting campaign came to an end as riflemen Gagan Narang and Sanjeev Rajput failed to qualify for the final round of the men’s 50 metres 3-position event at the Olympics.

16 Aug, 2008
Vijender Kumar beat Thailand’s Angkhan Chomphuphuang in the 75kg middle-weight bout to advance to the quarter-finals of boxing competition at the Beijing Olympic Games.

16 Aug, 2008
Jitender Kumar defeated Tulashboy Doniyorov in the flyweight pre-quarterfinals at the Beijing Olympics.

16 Aug, 2008
Vikas Gowda’s Olympics campaign wilted in the qualifying round as the Indian discus thrower failed to reach anywhere near his best.

16 Aug, 2008
Mandeep Kaur cut a sorry figure in the Olympic stage as she failed to qualify for the semifinals of the women’s 400m event.

15 Aug, 2008
Akhil Kumar reached the quarter-finals beating world champion Sergey Vodopyanov in the 54kg bantam weight category.

15 Aug, 2008
Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi were shown the door by the Swiss pair of Roger Federer and Stanislas Wawrinka in the doubles quarter-finals.

15 Aug, 2008
Bajranglal Takhar ran out of steam in the closing stages but managed to better his personal best timing to finish 21st in the men’s Single Sculls rowing event at the Olympics.

14 Aug, 2008
Indian judokas’ challenge came to a dismal end in the 29th Olympic Games with Divya Tewar going down to Yalennis Castillo of Cuba in the 78kg category.

14 Aug, 2008
Indian challenge in swimming came to an end as neither Virdhawal Khade nor Ankur Poseria could repeat or better their personal best at the Beijing Olympics.

14 Aug, 2008
India’s Anjali Bhagwat and Avneet Kaur Sidhu crashed out without making the grade for the finals of the 50m air rifle three position shooting competition at the Being Olympics on Thursday.

13 Aug, 2008
Sania Mirza and Sunitha Rao could not avert a defeat against Kuznetsova and Safina in the 2nd round.

13 Aug, 2008
The Indian Express duo of Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi recreated the old magic to sail into the quarters of the men’s doubles event. Leander Paes/ Mahesh Bhupathi beat Marcelo Melo/Andre 6-4, 6-2.

13 Aug, 2008
Bajrang Lal Takhar dissapointed as he finished fourth among six rowers in men’s single sculls classification race at the Beijing Olympics.

13 Aug, 2008
India’s ace archer MS Champia lost in the pre-quarters from B Badenov of Russia in the men’s individual archery event.

13 Aug, 2008
MS Champia advanced to the pre-quarters after beating Iran’s V Hojjatolah in the archery men’s individual event.

13 Aug, 2008
Saina Nehwal failed to reach the semis after losing the quarter-final encounter of the women’s singles badminton event. Saina Nehwal lost to Maria Krisitin Yulianti 26-28, 21-14, 21-15.

12 Aug, 2008
Paes and Bhupathi recreated the old magic to sail into the second round of the men’s doubles tennis event of the Beijing Olympics.

12 Aug, 2008
Akhil Kumar stormed into round of 16, beating his French opponent Ali Hallab in the 54kg bantam weight category of the boxing competition at the Beijing Olympics.

12 Aug, 2008
Indian rowing pair of Devender Kumar Khandwal and Manjeet Singh finished a disappointing fifth in the Lightweight Men’s Double Sculls Repechage 2 at the Olympics.

12 Aug, 2008
India’s promising archer Pranitha, failed to perform in her pre-quarterfinal match and crashed out of the women’s individual archery event at the Beijing Olympics on Tuesday.

12 Aug, 2008
Jitender Kumar pummelled Ulas Furkan Memis in less than three rounds to storm into the fly weight pre-quarters of the boxing event.

12 Aug, 2008
Dola Banerjee and L Bombayla Devi crashed out of the individual archery event after losing their respective matches.

12 Aug, 2008
Athens silver medallist RS Rathore failed to qualify for the finals of of men’s double trap event at the Olympics.

12 Aug, 2008
Ace pistol shooter Samresh Jung failed to qualify in the finals of men’s 50m pistol event at the Beijing Olympics.

11 Aug, 2008
Anup Sridhar is out of the Olympic race, having gone down 13-21,17-21 to Japanese Shoji Sato in the second round of Olympic badminton.

11 Aug, 2008
India’s top-ranked women tennis player Sania Mirza retired from first round of singles event at the Olympics against Czech Iveta Benesova.

11 Aug, 2008
AL Lakra crashed out of the Beijing Olympics’ boxing competition after losing 5-9 to Bahodirjon Sultanov in the opening round.

11 Aug, 2008
Saina Nehwal, India’s best bet in badminton, stormed into the quarters of the the women’s singles event at the Beijing Olympics.

11 Aug, 2008
Abhinav Bindra created history by winning the first ever gold in the olympics.

11 Aug, 2008
India’s Abhinav Bindra qualified for the men’s 10m Air Rifle final after shooting a total of 596 out of 600 while Gagan Narang failed to make the cut.

10 Aug, 2008
Virdhawal Khade failed to create a ripple in the swimming pool as he finished a lowly seventh to crash out of the 200m freestyle event.

10 Aug, 2008
Anup Sridhar advanced to the second round in men’s singles badminton after beating Marco Vasconcelos at the Beijing Olympics.

10 Aug, 2008
India’s sailing duo Devender Kumar Khandwal and Manjeet Singh finished fifth and last in the second heat of the men’s lightweight double sculls in rowing at the Beijing Games.

10 Aug, 2008
Mansher Singh and Manavjit Singh Sandhu failed to qualify for the trap finals of the shooting competition at the Beijing Olympics.

10 Aug, 2008
The Indian archery team came agonisingly close to a medal before hosts China shattered their hopes in the quarter-finals of the women’s team event.

10 Aug, 2008
Saina Nehwal beat Ukrainian Larysa Gryga in straight games to advance to the women’s singles pre-quarterfinals of the Games.

9 Aug, 2008
Swimmer Sandeep Sejwal failed to qualify for the semi-finals of the men’s 100m Breaststroke event at the Olympic Games.

9 Aug, 2008
Dinesh Kumar bowed out after losing the men’s light-heavy (81-kg) opening round bout to Abdelhafid Benchabla of Algeria.

9 Aug, 2008
Vijender Kumar beats Jack Badou of Gambia in the 75-kg bout to advance to the second round of boxing competition.

9 Aug, 2008
Saina Nehwal scored a thumping win over Ella Karachkova to move to the second round of women’s singles in badminton.

9 Aug, 2008
India’s women archers failed to keep their arrows on target and finished low down in the ranking event at the Beijing Games.

9 Aug, 2008
Bajranglal Takhar gave the crestfallen Indian camp some reason to smile as he qualified for the quarter-finals of men’s singles Sculls event.

9 Aug, 2008
In a big setback to India’s medal hopes, Samresh Jung failed to make the finals of the men’s 10m air pistol event following the poor show by Anjali Bhagwat and Avneet Kaur Sidhu.

9 Aug, 2008
Tombi Khumujam Devi’s Olympic campaign lasted only two and a half minutes as she was knocked out of the women’s 48kg event.

9 Aug, 2008
Indian shooters Anjali Bhagwat and Avneet Kaur Sidhu failed to qualify for the final round in the Women’s 10 metre air rifle event at the Beijing Shooting Range Hall on Saturday.