Olympic Gold Quest

Olympic Gold Quest

Abbreviation	OGQ
Formation	2001
Type	Non-profit sports organisation
Purpose	Sports
Region served	India
Chief Executive Officer	Viren Rasquinha
Key people	Geet Sethi Prakash Padukone
Website	Official website

Olympic Gold Quest (OGQ) is a program of the Foundation for Promotion of Sports and Games, a Not for Profit (Section 25) Company, which is committed to bridging the gap between the best athletes in India and the best athletes in the world thus helping Indian athletes to win Olympic Gold medals.

OGQ aims to create a level playing field for Indian athletes to enable them to be competitive at the highest level of sport. Founded by Indian sporting legends Geet Sethi and Prakash Padukone, OGQ’s first test was the London 2012 Olympics. 4 out of the 6 Indian medalists were supported by OGQ. In 2010, Leander Paes and Viswanathan Anand also joined the Board of Directors. Viren Rasquinha, former India hockey captain, is the current CEO of Olympic Gold Quest.

Objective

To assist potential Olympic medal talent from India to help achieve their dreams and win Olympic Gold medals and scout for potential medal talent, to help identify areas of support, to work with all stakeholders to aid deserving talent.

Olympic Gold Quest strives to complement the efforts of the Indian Government and various Sports Federations in identifying and funding the best and most deserving medal prospects for the Olympic Games. Olympic Gold Quest has brought together eminent sportspersons, business leaders, sportswriters and talent scouts to identify emerging athletes, understand their training needs and requirements and raise funds to be used for supporting athletes with Olympic medal winning potential.

Supported athletes

Olympic Gold Quest supports 46 athletes in the Six disciplines of Athletics, Badminton, Boxing, Shooting, Wrestling, and Archery. Besides it also supports 24 junior athletes from different sports disciplines under its Junior Scholarship Program.

Following are the athletes:

Archery

• Deepika Kumari
• Jayanta Talukdar
• Tarundeep Rai
• Rahul Banerjee
• Bombayla Devi Laishram
• Rimil Buriuly
• Atanu Das
• Laxmirani Majhi
• Mangal Champia

Athletics

• Vikas Gowda
• K. T. Irfan
• Annu Rani

Badminton

• Saina Nehwal (bronze in 2012)
• Parupalli Kashyap
• P V Sindhu

Boxing

• Mary Kom (bronze in 2012)
• Shiva Thapa
• Manoj Kumar
• Sarita Devi
• Devendro Singh
• Sarjubala Devi
• Sumit Sangwan

Shooting

• Gagan Narang (bronze in 2012)
• Vijay Kumar (silver in 2012)
• Heena Sidhu
• Annu Raj Singh
• Sanjeev Rajput
• Omkar Singh
• Jitu Rai
• Pooja Ghatkar
• Ayonika Paul
• Shweta Singh
• Smit Singh
• Prakash Nanjappa
• Kynan Chenai
• Joydeep Karmakar
• Rahi Sarnobat
• Apurvi Chandela
• Chain Singh
• Elizabeth Koshy
• Lajja Gauswami
• Shri Nivetha Parmantham

Wrestling

• Sushil Kumar (Silver in 2012, Bronze in 2008)
• Parveen Rana
• Yogeshwar Dutt (Bronze in 2012)
• Jaideep

Junior Scholarship Athletes

• Kartikey Gulshan
• Akhil Sheoran
• Meisnam Meiraba Luwang
• Pratik Borse
• Malaika Goel
• Lakshya Sen
• B.M. Rahul
• Rahul Yadav
• Siril Varma
• Shreya Gawande
• Manavaditya Rathore
• Nengneihat Kom
• Thotyola Tangkhul
• Rohit Singh
• Madhu Vedwan
• Arun Singh
• Sunny Singh
• Angad Vir Singh Bajwa
• Archana Kamath
• Maana Patel
• Atul Verma
• Sanjay Boro
• Naveen
• Ravi Kumar

Medals

Medal	Name/Team	Games	Sport	Event
Bronze	Gagan Narang	2012 London	Shooting	Men's 10m Air Rifle
Silver	Vijay Kumar	2012 London	Shooting	Men's 25 Rapid Fire Pistol
Bronze	Saina Nehwal	2012 London	Badminton	Women's singles
Bronze	Mary Kom	2012 London	Boxing	Women's flyweight

See also

• Anglian Medal Hunt Company
• Mittal Champions Trust

External links

• Olympic Gold Quest website