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. Subash Razdan, a prominent Indian American community leader in Atlanta was appointed Attache for India by the Indian Olympic Association. He also served as the acting chef-de-mission for the Indian contingent.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Template:Bronze medal	Leander Paes	Tennis	Men's singles	Template:Dts

Competitors

There were 49 athletes who took part in the medal events across 13 sports.

Sport	Men	Women	Athletes	Events
Archery	3	0	3	2
Athletics	2	4	6	3
Badminton	1	1	2	2
Boxing	3	0	3	3
Equestrian	1	0	1	1
Field hockey	16	0	16	1
Judo	2	2	4	4
Shooting	2	0	2	3
Swimming	1	1	2	2
Table tennis	1	1	2	2
Tennis	2	0	2	2
Weightlifting	5	0	5	5
Wrestling	1	0	1	1
Total	40	9	49	31

Archery

Template:Main 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	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / Template:Abbr
		Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Changte Lalremsaga	Men's Individual	650	32	Template:FlagIOCathlete W 169–156	Template:FlagIOCathlete L 158–164	colspan="5" Template:N/a
Limba Ram		644	44	Template:FlagIOCathlete L 140–165	colspan="6"rowspan="2" Template:N/a
Skalzang Dorje		634	55	Template:FlagIOCathlete L 156–167
Limba Ram Skalzang Dorje Changte Lalremsaga	Men's Team	1928	14	colspan=2 Template:N/a	Template:FlagIOC L 235–251	colspan="4" Template:N/a

Athletics

Track And Road Events

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Bahadur Prasad	Men's 1500 Meter	3:46.16	8	colspan=4Template:N/a
Beenamol Mathew Rosakutty Kunnath Chacko Jyotirmoyee Sikdar Shiny Wilson	Women's 4 × 400 m relay	Template:AthAbbr		colspan="2" Template:N/A	colspan=2 Template:N/a

Field Events

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Distance	Rank	Distance	Rank
Shakti Singh	Men's Discus Throw	56.58m	30	colspan=2 Template:N/a

Badminton

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarter-final	Semi-final	Final / Template:Abbr
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Deepankar Bhattacharya	Men's Singles	Template:Bye	Template:FlagIOCathlete L (5–15, 4–15)	rowspan="2" colspan="5" Template:N/a
P.V.V. Lakshmi	Women's Singles	Template:FlagIOCathlete W (11–6, 11–6)	Template:FlagIOCathlete L (5–11, 6–11)

Boxing

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Debendra Thapa	Men's Light Flyweight (48 kg)	Template:FlagIOCathlete L RCS-1	rowspan="3" colspan="5" Template:N/a
Gurcharn Singh	Men's Light Heavyweight (81 kg)	Template:FlagIOCathlete L 7–15
Lakha Singh	Men's Heavyweight (91 kg)	Template:FlagIOCathlete L 2–14

Equestrian

Athlete	Event	Horse	Dressage	Cross Country	Jumping	Total	Rank
Indrajit Lamba	Individual Eventing	Karishma	79.40	EL		EL

Field Hockey

Template:MainTeam 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

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Classification matches

Fifth to eighth place classification

Crossover

Seventh and eighth place

Template:Fieldhockeybox 8th Place Finish

Judo

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarter Finals	Semi Finals	Repachage		Final/Template:Abbr
							Round 1	Round 2
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Narender Singh	Men's 60 kg	Template:FlagIOCathlete Won	Template:FlagIOCathlete Loss	colspan="7" Template:N/a
Najib Aga	Men's 65 kg	Template:N/A	Template:FlagIOCathlete Loss	colspan="3" Template:N/a	Template:FlagIOCathlete Loss	colspan="3" Template:N/a
Sunith Thakur	Women's 52 kg	Template:N/A	Template:Bye	Template:FlagIOCathlete Loss	colspan="6" Template:N/a
Arti Kohli	Women's 72 kg	Template:N/A	Template:FlagIOCathlete Loss	colspan="7" Template:N/a

Shooting

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Jaspal Rana	Men's 10 m Air Pistol	574	29	rowspan="3" colspan=2 Template:N/a
	Men's 50 m Air Pistol	534	45
Mansher Singh	Men's Trap	118	31

Swimming

Athlete	Event	Heats		Swim-Off		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Sebastian Xavier	Men's 50m Freestyle	23.80	44	rowspan="2" colspan="4" Template:N/a
Sangeeta Puri	Women's 50m Freestyle	28.02	48

Table Tennis

Athlete	Event	Group stage				Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / Template:Tooltip
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Chetan Baboor	Men's Singles	Template:FlagIOCathlete L 1–2	Template:FlagIOCathlete L 0–2	Template:FlagIOCathlete L 1–2	4	rowspan="2" colspan="5" Template:N/a
Ambika Radhika	Women's Singles	Template:FlagIOCathlete L 0–2	Template:FlagIOCathlete L 0–2	Template:FlagIOCathlete L 0–2	4

Tennis

Athlete	Event	Round 64	Round 32	Round 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / Template:Abbr
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Leander Paes	Men's Singles	Template:FlagIOCathlete W 6–7, 7–6,1–0 Template:Tooltip	Template:FlagIOCathlete W 6–2, 6–3	Template:FlagIOCathlete W 7–5, 7–6	Template:FlagIOCathlete W 6–1, 7–5	Template:FlagIOCathlete L 6–7, 3–6	Template:FlagIOCathlete W 3–6, 6–2, 6–4	Template:Bronze3
Mahesh Bhupathi Leander Paes	Men's Doubles	Template:N/a	Template:FlagIOCathlete W 4–6, 6–4, 6–4	Template:FlagIOCathlete L 6–4, 2–6, 2–6	colspan="4" Template:N/a

Weightlifting

Event	Athlete	Snatch	Clean & Jerk	Total	Rank
Badathala Adisekhar	Men's 54 kg	105.0	125.0	230.0	18
Raghavan Chanderasekaran	Men's 59 kg	112.5	140.0	252.5	11
Sandeep Kumar	Men's 64 kg	110.0	142.5	252.5	33
Samsudeen Kabeer	Men's 70 kg	125.0	150.0	275.0	23
Satheesha Rai	Men's 76 kg	140.0	177.5	317.4	15

Wrestling

Athlete	Event	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Final
		Round Type Opposition Result	Round Type Opposition Result	Round Type Opposition Result	Round Type Opposition Result	Round Type Opposition Result	Round Type Opposition Result	Round Type Opposition Result	Rank
Pappu Yadav	Men's Greco-Roman 52kg	1/16 Finals Loss 0-4ST	Repachage Loss 0-4ST	did not advance

References

• The Official Report of the Centennial Olympic Games, Volume III The Competition Results{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Peachtree Publishers(1997). ISBN 1-56145-150-9