Virdhawal Vikram Khade Sport- Swimming Date of Birth: 29/08/1991 Home town: Kolhapur, Maharashtra Qualified for London 2012 Olympics in 100m Freestyle event. First Indian swimmer in 24 years to win a medal at the Asian Games. Won a Bronze medal in the 50m Butterfly at the Asian Games, 2010. Won three gold and three silver medals at the Commonwealth Youth Games 2008, creating four new National records and three Games records. National record holder in five events - 50, 100, 200 and 400m Freestyle and 50m Butterfly. Sandeep Sejwal Sport- Swimming Date of Birth: 23/1/1989 Home town: New Delhi Qualified for London 2012 Olympics in 100m Breaststroke event. Holds the National records for the 50, 100 and 200m Breaststroke events. Qualified for the Beijing Olympics in May 2008- becoming the first Indian Breaststroke swimmer to do so. Aaron D Souza Sport: Swimming Date of Birth: 21/07/1992 Hometown: Bangalore Won 3 medals (including 2 Gold medals) at the 11 th South Asian Games in Dhaka, 2009. Won 2 medals at the 8 th Asian Swimming Championship, China, 2009. Won 1 Gold and 1 Bronze medal at the Asian Youth Games, Singapore, 2009. Won 1 Silver and 1 Bronze medal the Commonwealth Youth Games, India, 2008.
Prasanta Karmakar Sport: Swimming (Differently abled S9 category) Date of Birth: 08/12/1980 Hometown: Kolkata First Indian swimmer to win a medal in swimming in the History of Commonwealth Games. 2 Bronze medals at Para Asian Games, 2010. Bronze medal at Commonwealth Games, 2010. Asian record holder in 3 events-50m Butterfly, 50m Breaststroke, 50m Backstroke. Bronze medal at the International German Swimming Championships, 2010. Sharath Gayakwad Sport: Swimming (Differently Abled S8 category) Date of Birth: 10/05/1991 Home town: Bangalore First Indian swimmer to achieve the qualifying time for London Paralympics, 2012. Won 1Silver and 2 Bronze medals at the Internationale Deutsche Meisterschaften (IDM) Swimming Championships in Berlin, Germany, 2011. Won a Bronze medal at the Asian Para Games, Guangzhou, China, 2010. Asian record holder in his category in 2 events 50m Butterfly, 50m Breaststroke. Won 2 Gold, 4 Silver and 1 Bronze medal at the IWAS World Games, Bangalore, 2009. HS Prannoy Date of Birth: 17/07/1992 Home town: Trivandrum, Kerala Won a Silver Medal (singles) at the Youth Olympics, Singapore, 2010 Won a Bronze Medal (singles) at the Junior World Championships, Guadalajara, Mexico, 2010. Won a Bronze Medal (mixed doubles) at the Junior World Championships, 2008.
Rani Rampal Sport: Women s Hockey Date of Birth: 04/12/1994 Hometown: Shahbad, Haryana Top field goal scorer at the Women s Hockey World Cup, 2010. Adjudged the Best Young Player of the tournament at the Women s Hockey World Cup, 2010. Nominated for FIH Young Player of the Year Award for 2010. She is the only Indian to be nominated for the award. Only woman Indian player to feature in the Asian and World All Stars hockey teams. NVS Vijetha Date of Birth: 13/09/1993 Home town: Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Semifinalist in boys singles (U-19) in SushantChipalkati All India Junior Major Ranking Badminton Tournament, Pune, 2010. Semifinalist in boys' singles (U-19) in 10th RSC All India Junior Ranking Badminton Tournament, Cochin, 2010. Semifinalist in boys' singles (U-19) in 9 th All India Junior Ranking Badminton Tournament, Bangalore, 2010. Savita Poonia Sport: Women s Hockey Date of Birth: 11/07/1990 Home town: Hissar, Haryana Awarded the Best Goalkeeper award at the 35th Junior National Hockey Tournament, 2010 Played in the Junior World Cup.
Sourav Saha Sport: Swimming Date of Birth 25/03/1995 Hometown: Kolkata At the State School Games and Sports, West Bengal, 2010 he won 2 Gold and 1 Silver medal. At the State Age Group Aquatic Championship, West Bengal, 2010 he won 2 Gold medals. 4 th in the All Bengal 10 Km Long Distance Swimming Competition with a time of 01 hour, 08 minutes and 36 seconds.
Ruthvika Shivani Date of Birth: 26/03/1997 HomeTown: Khammam, Andhra Pradesh Winner of U-19 mixed doubles and runner up in U-17 doubles at the All India Junior Ranking Tournament, June 2010. Winner of U-15 singles and doubles at Sub Junior All India Ranking Tournament at Bangalore, July 2011. Winner of U-17 singles, doubles and U-19 mixed doubles at All India Ranking Tournament at Dharwad, July 2011. Namit Bahadur Sport: Boxing (Flyweight) Date of Birth: 12/06/1993 Achievement: Bronze medal at World Junior Boxing Championships, 2009.