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[108] [109] India won six medals in total including one silver and five bronze, three of which came from the shooting events. [110] Chopra won the only silver medal for India in the men's javelin throw event and became the first Indian individual medalist to have won a gold and silver at the Olympics. [111]
This was also India's second ever individual gold medal after Abhinav Bindra won gold in shooting in 2008. This was also India's first athletics medal since its first appearance as an independent nation in 1948, and its third overall after Norman Pritchard's silver medals in 1900. [16] With her silver medal in the women's 49 kg event, Saikhom ...
Host nation Japan won 27 gold medals, surpassing its gold medal tally of 16 at both the 1964 and 2004 summer editions. [9] Athletes from that nation also won 58 medals overall, which eclipsed its record of 41 overall medals won at the previous Summer Olympics. [10] American swimmer Caeleb Dressel won the most gold medals at the Games with five ...
Final/Bronze Medal Score Seed Opposition Score Opposition Score Opposition Score Opposition Score Opposition Score Rank Sangampreet Singh Bisla: Men's Compound [4] 679 12 Hong Kong Tsui Chun Kit W147-142 Rishabh Yadav: 684 8 Hong Kong Ngai Ho Chun J W146-134 Aman Saini: 696 1 Singapore Eer Jiang Ying W146-140 Avneet Kaur: women's Compound: 677 5
Since the 2000s, India have consistently finished among the top five countries in the medals table and are now a force to be reckoned with at the Commonwealth Games. [21] At Commonwealth Games 2018 in Gold Coast table tennis ace Manika Batra was the most successful Indian with four medals. India finished third with 66 medals at the edition.
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India at the 2021 World Athletics U20 Championships; WA code: IND: Website: indianathletics.in: in Nairobi; Competitors: 28 in 19 events: Medals Ranked 21st: Gold 0 Silver 2 Bronze 1 Total 3: World Athletics U20 Championships appearances; auto
In June 2021, Chopra went on to compete in the Athletics meet in Karlstad, Sweden, where he achieved a gold with a sub-par throw of 80.96 m (265.6 ft). He won a bronze in the subsequent Games in Karlstad, Finland with a throw of 86.79 m (284.7 ft). [61] He won the gold medal with a throw of 86.69 m (284.4 ft) in his first and only legal throw.