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Athlete and Team Biographies

India

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Aquatics Swimming

Prem Kumar biography
Arjun Muralidharan biography
Kanchanmala Pande biography
Rehan Poncha biography
Puneet Rana biography
Tirumalai Kumar Subbaiah biography
Shikha Tandon biography

Aquatics Synchronised Swimming

Dave Avani Kardam biography

Athletics

Seema Antil, Discus biography
Ashik Beevi, Track biography
Soma Biswas, Heptathlon biography
Anju Bobby George, Long Jump biography
Girraj Girraj, Track biography
Vikas Gowda, Shot Put and Discus biography
Basavaraj Horaddi, Athletics biography
India Athletics Women, Track biography
Orchatteri Jaisha, Track biography
Parayil Jalan, 20km Walk biography
Ranjith Kumar Jayaseelan, Seated Discus biography
Harwant Kaur, Discus biography
Manjit Kaur, Track biography
Rajwinder Kaur, Track biography
Deepmala L. Devi, 20km Walk biography
Krishnamurthy Holla Malathi, Track biography
Vivek Monga, Track biography
Pinki Parmanik, Track biography
Krishna Poonia, Discus biography
Ghamanda Ram, Track biography
Geetha Satti, Track biography
Patlavath Shankar, Track biography
Javur Shobha, Heptathlon biography
Balwinder Singh, Track biography
Bhupinder Singh, Track biography
Jora Singh, Decathlon biography
Kuldev Singh biography
Navpreet Singh biography
Satbir Singh biography
Susmita Singha Roy, Heptathlon biography
Chitra Soman, Track biography
Sreedharan Sreejith Pangadath biography
Srinivas Surada biography

Badminton

Chetan Anand biography
Anand/Diju Badminton Men biography
Valiyaveetil Diju biography
Diju/Gutta Badminton Open biography
Jwala Gutta biography
Gutta/Kurian Badminton Women biography
India Badminton Open biography
Rupesh Kumar biography
Shruti Kurian biography
Trupti Murgunde biography
Murgunde/Nehwal Badminton Women biography
Saina Nehwal biography
Lalji Aparna Popat biography
Anup Sridhar biography
Sanave Thomas biography
Thomas/Kumar Badminton Men biography

Basketball

Shabeer Ahmed biography
Kamaljit Kaur Badesha biography
Arnika Gujar biography
Asha Hegde biography
India Basketball Men biography
India Basketball Women biography
Geethu Anna Jose biography
Sambhaji Kadam biography
Kiranjit Kaur biography
Sonam Deep Kaur biography
Shiba Maggon biography
Anoop Mukkanniyil biography
Anitha Pauldurai biography
Trideep Rai biography
Sanjay Raj Rajanna biography
Muraleekrishna Ravindran biography
Sofi Sam biography
Kumar Shiv biography
Divya Singh biography
Jagdeep Singh biography
Prashanti Singh biography
Seema Singh biography
Talwinderjeet Singh biography
Yadwinder Singh biography
Robinson Sozhasingarayer biography
Riyaz Uddin biography

Boxing

Jai Bhagwan biography
Varghese Johnson biography
Ajay Kumar biography
Akhil Kumar biography
Jitender Kumar biography
Suranjoy Singh Mayengbam biography
Diwakar Prasad biography
Som Bahadur Pun biography
Harpreet Singh biography
Parvinder Singh biography
Vijender biography

Gymnastics Artistic

Jhunuk Basu biography
Sharat Chandra biography
Priti Das biography
Rakhi Debnath biography
Tumpa Debnath biography
India Gymnastics Artistic Men biography
India Gymnastics Artistic Women biography
Rohit Jaiswal biography
Ashish Kumar biography
Vivek Mishra biography
Meenakshi P biography
Mayank Srivastava biography

Gymnastics Rhythmic

India Gymnastics Rhythmic Women biography
Komal Ishwer Nahar biography
Surekha Rana biography
Rajni Sharma biography

Hockey

Saba Anjum biography
Kanti Baa biography
Rajni Bala biography
Arjun Halappa biography
Jasjeet Handa biography
India Hockey Men biography
India Hockey Women biography
Helen Innocent biography
Rajwinder Kaur biography
Surinder Kaur biography
Tushar Khandeker biography
Mamta Kharb biography
Nilima Kujur biography
Jyoti Kullu biography
Bharat Kumar biography
Asunta Lakra biography
Sarita Lakra biography
Sanggai Maimom biography
Vikram Vishnu Pillay biography
Subhadra Pradhan biography
Viren Wilfred Rasquinha biography
Masira Samuel-Surin biography
Javed Shaikh Hockey Men biography
Baljit Singh biography
Didar Singh biography
Kanwalpreet Singh biography
Rajpal Singh biography
Sandeep Singh biography
Sardar Singh biography
Tejbir Singh biography
Sumrai Tete biography
Deepak Thakur biography
Ignace Tirkey biography
Prabodh Tirkey biography
William Xalao biography

Shooting

Baba Prithviraj Singh Bedi biography
Anjali Mandar Bhagwat biography
Vikram Bhatnagar biography
Abhinav Bindra biography
Deepali Deshpande biography
India Shooting Men biography
India Shooting Men biography
India Shooting Men biography
India Shooting Men biography
India Shooting Men biography
India Shooting Men biography
India Shooting Men biography
India Shooting Men biography
India Shooting Men biography
India Shooting Men biography
India Shooting Men biography
India Shooting Women biography
India Shooting Women biography
India Shooting Women biography
India Shooting Women biography
India Shooting Women biography
Saroja Kumari Jhuthu biography
Anuja Jung biography
Samaresh Jung biography
Joydeep Karmakar biography
Vijay Kumar biography
Damaraju Vs Lakshmi Priya biography
Gagan Narang biography
Ronak Pandit biography
Sanjeev Rajput biography
Jaspal Rana biography
Sonia Rana biography
Sushma Rana biography
Arti Singh Rao biography
Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore biography
Manavjit Singh Sandhu biography
Amit Sanghi biography
Tejaswini Sawant biography
Avneet Kaur Sidhu biography
Mansher Singh biography
Vivek Singh biography
Harveen Srao biography
Pemba Tamang biography

Table Tennis

Sharath Achanta biography
Achanta/Ghatak Table Tennis Open biography
Achanta/Roy Table Tennis Men biography
Kasturi Chakraborty biography
Mouma Das biography
Das/Ghatak Table Tennis Women biography
Shibaji Datta biography
Datta/Saha Table Tennis Men biography
Poulomi Ghatak biography
India Table Tennis Men biography
India Table Tennis Women biography
Shamini Kumaresan biography
Kumaresan/Saha Table Tennis Women biography
Soumyadeep Roy biography
Roy/Das Table Tennis Open biography
Nandita Saha biography
Subhajit Saha biography
Saha/Saha Table Tennis Open biography

Weightlifting

Mohammed Zakir Asdullah biography
Farman Basha biography
Vicky Batta biography
Simple Kaur Bhumrah biography
Prameela Valli Boradi biography
Yumnam Chanu biography
Sachin Chaudhary biography
Sudhir Kumar Chitradurga biography
Laishram Monika Devi biography
Raju Edwin biography
Arun Murugesan biography
Kunjarani Devi Nameirakpam biography
Sailaja Pujari biography
Rajinder Singh Rahelu biography
Satheesha Rai biography
Geeta Rani biography
Tajinder Singh biography

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See you at Delhi 2010

Fireworks at the MCG at the closing of Melbourne 2006.

After eleven fun packed days, Melbourne 2006 is now over and all thoughts turn to the next Games - Delhi 2010. Nameste! See you in Delhi 2010! Swagatam!
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Medal Table

Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Australia	84	69	68
England	36	40	34
Canada	26	29	31
India	22	17	11
South Africa	12	13	13

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