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The lone gold medal won by Neeraj Chopra was India's first ever in athletics and the second ever individual gold medal. India also won its first ever silver medal in weight lifting. The men's national field hockey team won the bronze medal to record their first Olympic medal since 1980.
The table uses the Olympic medal table sorting method. By default, the table is ordered by the number of gold medals the athletes from a nation have won, where a nation is an entity represented by a National Olympic Committee (NOC). The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next, and then the number of bronze medals.
The 2020 Summer Olympics were held in Japan from 23 July to 8 August 2021 after being postponed a year by the COVID-19 pandemic. In total, 2,402 medals were won by 2,175 athletes in 339 events at the Games. [1]
The hockey team won India's first gold medal in the Olympics at Amsterdam. [14] This was the first gold medal won by any nation from Asia at the modern Olympic Games. [15] [16] For the 1932 Games, the Indian contingent consisted of the field hockey team and five athletes. [17]
Dahiya was born on 12 December 1997 in Nahri village, Sonipat district, Haryana. [7] Since age 10, Dahiya was trained by Satpal Singh at the Chhatrasal Stadium in Delhi.His father Rakesh Dahiya, a small farmer, would travel around 39 km every day from their village to Chhatrasal Stadium to deliver fresh milk and fruits, which were part of his wrestling diet, for more than a decade.
Indian player P. V. Sindhu won Olympic bronze medal in 2020 Summer Olympics held at Tokyo. Becoming the first women athlete and second athlete after Sushil Kumar to win two Olympic medals in Olympics for India. [153] a 9 year old Dalit girl was allegedly raped by four men including a Hindu priest and crematorium workers on her way to fetch water.
French swimmers Yohann Ndoye-Brouard and Clément Secchi recently posted images of their medals on social media, describing them as looking like “crocodile skin,” or dating back to 1924.
In 2021, Aditi represented India at the 2020 Summer Olympics in the women's individual stroke play event, in which she was ranked 200th in the world. [23] Aditi finished fourth with a score of 269 and 15-under par, two shots behind gold medal winner Nelly Korda of the United States. [ 24 ]