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India won six medals including a silver and five bronze to be ranked 71st amongst the 206 NOCs that participated in the Olympics. This was India's third-best medal haul after the 2020 and 2012 respectively. Manu Bhaker won two bronze medals in shooting and became the first Indian to win two medals in a single Olympics since India gained ...
Olympics Trivia Questions and Answers. 1. Question: In which country did the Olympics originate? Answer: Greece. 2. Question: The Olympic games in Greece were held how often?
India sent 48, 46 and 52 athletes to the subsequent three Summer Olympics in 1984, 1988, and 1992 respectively, but failed to win a single medal across the three Olympic Games. [ 52 ] [ 53 ] [ 54 ] In between, India returned to compete in the 1988 Winter Olympics after a gap of nearly 20 years.
Target Olympic Podium Scheme (TOPS) is a scheme created by Government of India to promote sports in India. [1] In September 2014, the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India started a scheme to train and promote high-performance athletes with a target of getting medals at the 2016 Rio and 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.
The IOC membership approved Mumbai's application during the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. This marked the second time an IOC Session was held in India. The 86th IOC Session in 1983 was held in New Delhi. [3] Due to several problems related to Indian Olympic Association, the session was delayed to October 2023. [4]
The central issue is that the IBA disqualified the boxers during the 2023 World Championships in New Delhi, India, because they “failed to meet eligibility rules.”
India has sent athletes to every celebration of the Youth Olympic Games except for the 2020 winter games. The Indian Olympic Association is the National Olympic Committee for the India. [1] The Indian athletes have won a total of 23 medals (3 of them gold) at the Summer Youth Olympic Games.
QUESTION 12: Name the Indian athlete who lost a medal in an Olympic event by 1/100 of a second? ANSWER 12 : Pilavullakandi Thekkeparambil Usha (P. T. Usha), in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. QUESTION 13 : Who was the first Non-Congress Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh , and what party did he represent?