List Of All Indian Athletes Who Won Medals
With the start of the Tokyo Olympics a few days later, let’s remember the winners of the Indian Olympics who won medals at previous Olympics.
The Summer Olympics are usually held in July and August every four years. Due to the coronavirus epidemic, the 2020 edition of the Tokyo Games was delayed for a year. The 32nd edition of the Olympic Games will be held in Tokyo on July 23, where 339 events will be held in 33 sports.
List of Indian Olympics winners
India has won 28 medals at the Olympics so far and hopes to win even more this year.
| Games | Name / group | Event | Medal |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1900 Paris | Norman Pritchard | 200 meters for men | Silver |
| 1900 Paris | Norman Pritchard | With obstacles to a distance of 200 meters between men | Silver |
| 1928 Amsterdam | Men’s hockey team | Men’s field hockey | Tillo |
| 1932 Los Angeles | Men’s hockey team | Men’s field hockey | Tillo |
| 1936 Berlin | Men’s hockey team | Men’s field hockey | Tillo |
| 1948 London | Men’s hockey team | Men’s field hockey | Tillo |
| 1952 Helsinki | Men’s hockey team | Men’s field hockey | Tillo |
| 1952 Helsinki | Hashaba Dadasheb Jadhav | Men’s wrestling in the weight class of one free weight | Rice |
| 1956 Melbourne | Men’s hockey team | Men’s field hockey | Tillo |
| 1960 Rum | Men’s hockey team | Men’s field hockey | Silver |
| 1964 Tokyo | Men’s hockey team | Men’s field hockey | Tillo |
| 1968 Mexico City | Men’s hockey team | Men’s field hockey | Rice |
| 1972 Munich | Men’s hockey team | Men’s field hockey | Rice |
| 1980 Moscow | Men’s hockey team | Men’s field hockey | Tillo |
| 1996 Atlanta | Leander Paes | Men’s tennis | Rice |
| 2000 Sydney | Karnam Malleswari | The weight of the women was 69 kg | Rice |
| 2004 Athens | Rajawdarhan Singh Rathor | Shooting from men is a double trap | Silver |
| 2008 Beijing | Abhinav Bindra | Shooting of men from an air rifle 10 m | Tillo |
| 2008 Beijing | Wijender Singh | Boxing Medium Weight | Rice |
| 2008 Beijing | Sushil Kumar | Men’s freestyle wrestling 66 kg | Rice |
| 2012 London | Vijay Kumar | The men fired 25 rapid-fire guns | Silver |
| 2012 London | Sushil Kumar | Men’s freestyle wrestling 66 kg | Silver |
| 2012 London | Saina Nehwal | Women’s badminton players | Rice |
| 2012 London | Mary Com | Women’s boxing in weightlifting | Rice |
| 2012 London | Gagan Narang | Men’s shot from an air rifle 10 meters | Rice |
| 2012 London | Yogeshwar Dutt | Men’s wrestling at 60 kg | Rice |
| 2016 Rio de Janeiro | PV Sindhu | Women’s badminton players | Silver |
| 2016 Rio de Janeiro | Sakshi Malik | Women’s wrestling in the weight category up to 58 kg | Rice |
List of Indian athletes who have won medals at the Summer Olympics
It took India only four years to see their first performance at the Summer Olympics, and the first modern Olympics were held in 1896 in Athens, Greece. It all started in 1900 for India, when Norman Pritchard was sent to Paris alone, where he won two medals in the 200-meter dash and the 200-meter hurdles.
Since then, India has participated in every Summer Games and sent its first Olympic delegation of four athletes and two wrestlers in the 1920s. However, it wasn’t until 1928, when they watched their next medal, so did the Indian hockey team. Indian hockey teams often won the Indian Olympics.
Mordern Era
Carnam Malleswari won a bronze medal in the 69kg weight class at the 2000 Sydney Olympics with a two-time gold medal at the World Championships. It was India’s first female Olympic medal.
Rajavar Khan Singh Rator won the best silver medal in the men’s trap shooting at the 2004 Athens Olympics.
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Abhinav Bindra won gold in the men’s 10m air rifle event at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and became the first Indian to win a single Olympic gold medal.
In middleweight, Wijender Singh (bronze medal) won his first boxing medal.
At the 2012 Summer Olympics, a group of 83 Indians competed in the Games with a total of six medals to establish the best of the country. Since the time of Norman Pritchard in 1900, the wrestler Sushil Kumar was the first Indian to win many Olympic medals (bronze at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and silver at the 2012 Summer Olympics).
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He won a bronze medal in badminton Saina Nehwal in the women’s competition, which won the country’s first Olympic badminton medal. Mary Com became the first Indian woman to win a boxing medal with her bronze medal in the women’s weight class.
A record 118 athletes took part in the 2016 Summer Olympics. With her bronze medal in the women’s 58kg weight class, Sakshi Malik was the first female wrestler from India to win an Olympic medal. PV. Sindhu (badminton player) was the youngest Olympian in India in 2016 to win an Olympic silver medal.
India Olympic Winners: List Of All Indian Athletes Who Won Medals
