India at the 1996 Summer Olympics
IOC code	IND
NOC	Indian Olympic Association
Website	olympic.ind.in
in Atlanta
Competitors	49 in 13 sports
Flag bearers	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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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. Subash Razdan, a prominent Indian American community leader in Atlanta was appointed Attache ^[1] for India by the Indian Olympic Association. He also served as the acting chef-de-mission ^[2] for the Indian contingent.

Medalists

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

Contingent by sport

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.

Athlete	Event	Ranking Round		Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarter Finals	Semi Finals	Finals
		Score	Seed	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Changte Lalremsaga	Men's Individual	650	32	Andrew Lindsay (NZL) W 169-156	Michele Frangilli (ITA) L 158-164	Did Not Advance
Limba Ram		644	44	Paul Vermeiren (BEL) L 140-165	Did Not Advance
Skalzang Dorje		634	55	Matteo Bisiani  (ITA) L 156-167	Did Not Advance
Limba Ram Skalzang Dorje Changte Lalremsaga	Men's Team	1928	14	N/A		United States (USA) L 235-251	Did Not Advance

Athletics

Badminton

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarter Finals	Semi Finals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Deepankar Bhattacharya	Men's Singles	Bye	Heryanto Arbi (INA) L 5-15, 4-15	Did Not Advance
P.V.V. Lakshmi	Women's Singles	Anne Gibson (GBR) W 11-6, 11-6	Katarzyna Krasowska (POL) L 5-11, 6-11	Did Not Advance

Boxing

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarter Finals	Semi Finals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Debendra Thapa	Men's Light Flyweight (48 kg)	Masibulele Makepula (RSA) L RCS-1	Did Not Advance
Gurcharn Singh	Men's Light Heavyweight (81 kg)	Enrique Flores (PUR) L 7-15	Did Not Advance
Lakha Singh	Men's Heavyweight (91 kg)	Wojciech Bartnik (POL) L 2-14	Did Not Advance

Equestrian

Field Hockey

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

Preliminary round

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Spain	5	4	0	1	14	5	+9	8
Germany	5	3	1	1	10	3	+7	7
India	5	2	2	1	8	3	+5	6
Pakistan	5	2	1	2	11	8	+3	5
Argentina	5	2	0	3	9	13	−4	4
United States	5	0	0	5	3	23	−20	0

Source:

20 July 1996 20:00 India  0–1  Argentina Report P. Lombi  45' Umpires: Peter von Reth (NED) Amin Ayman (EGY)

22 July 1996 17:30 Germany  1–1 India  Saliger  66' Report M. Kumar  62' Umpires: Roger St Rose (TRI) Floris Idenburg (NED)

24 July 1996 09:00 United States  0–4 India  Report R. Singh  10' Pillay  28', 46' S. Kumar  69' Umpires: Craig Madden (GBR) Guillaume Langle (FRA)

26 July 1996 17:30 Pakistan  0–0 India  Report Umpires: Peter von Reth (NED) Craig Madden (GBR)

28 July 1996 20:00 Spain  1–3 India  Escudé  33' Report Ferreira  21', 41' Varkey  59' Umpires: Ray O'Connor (IRL) Kiyoshi Sana (JPN)

Classification matches

Fifth to eighth place classification

Crossover

31 July 1996 11:00 India  3–3 (a.e.t.)  South Korea R. Singh  14' Ferreira  39' Kumar  42' Report Shin Seok-kyo  22', 66' Park Shin-heum  49' Penalties   3–5   Umpires: Steve Horgan (USA) Guillaume Langle (FRA)

Seventh and eighth place

2 August 1996 11:00 India  3–4  Great Britain Dhillon  2' R. Singh  29' Powar  70' Report Shaw  24' Laslett  43' Wyatt  53' Mayer  56' Umpires: Roger St. Rose (TRI) Eduardo Ruiz (ARG)

8th Place Finish

Judo

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarter Finals	Semi Finals	Repachage			Final/BM
							Round 1	Quarter Finals	Semi Finals
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Narender Singh	Men's 60 kg	Sullivan (IRL) Won	Bagirov  (BLR) Loss	Did Not Advance
Najib Aga	Men's 65 kg	N/A	Csák (HUN) Loss	Did Not Advance			MacKinnon (RSA) Loss	Did Not Advance
Sunith Thakur	Women's 52 kg	N/A	Bye	Sugawara (JPN) Loss	Did Not Advance
Arti Kohli	Women's 72 kg	N/A	Rodriguez (CUB) Loss	Did Not Advance

Shooting

Swimming

Table Tennis

Athlete	Event	Group Stage				Round of 16	Quarter Finals	Semi Finals	Finals
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Chetan Baboor	Men's Singles	Patrick Chila (FRA) L 1-2	Kalinikos Kreanga (GRE) L 0-2	Segun Toriola (NGR) L 1-2	4	Did Not Advance
Ambika Radhika	Women's Singles	Otilia Badescu (ROU) L 0-2	Rūta Paškauskienė (LTU) L 0-2	Bettine Vriesekoop (NED) L 0-2	4	Did Not Advance

Tennis

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarter Finals	Semi Finals	Final/BM	Rank
Leander Paes	Men's Singles	Richey Reneberg (USA) W 6-7, 7-6,1-0 retired	Nicolas Pereira (VEN) W 6-2, 6-3	Thomas Enqvist (SWE) W 7-5, 7-6	Renzo Furlan (ITA) W 6-1, 7-5	Andre Agassi (USA) L 6-7, 3-6	Fernando Meligeni (BRA) W 3-6, 6-2, 6-4
Mahesh Bhupathi/ Leander Paes	Men's Doubles	N/A	Bing/ Jiaping (CHN) W 4-6, 6-4, 6-4	Woodbridge / Woodforde (AUS) L 6-4, 2-6, 2-6	Did Not Advance

Weightlifting

Wrestling

References

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• (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. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)