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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 ...
In the first ISSF World Cup in 2019 held at New Delhi, Saurabh Chaudhary secured a quota for the men's 10 m air pistol event. Abhishek Verma secured a second quota in the same category after he won the gold medal at the ISSF World Cup held at Beijing. In the same event, Divyansh Singh Panwar secured a quota for the men's 10 m air rifle event.
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]
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]
This was the first Olympics for India where all the medallists (2) were women. [11] P. V. Sindhu, Saikhom Mirabai Chanu and Lovlina Borgohain made India proud by winning medals at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. [12] Saikhom Mirabai Chanu won the silver medal on the very first day of the Tokyo Olympics 2020, where she achieved
[3] [4] She won the silver medal in the 10,000 meters walk at the 2022 Commonwealth Games. [5] [6] She is the first Indian woman to win a medal in race walk with a silver in the 10,000m event. [7] She qualified for the Paris Olympics by meeting the mark at the Indian Open National Race Walking Competition in Ranchi on 14 February 2023. [8]
On 3 September 2021, she became the first Indian female Paralympian to win two medals in Paralympics history after claiming bronze in women's 50m air rifle standing event. [17] [18] In Paralympics 2024 at Paris, she won a gold in women's 10m air rifle standing SH1. She became the first Indian women athlete to win three paralympic medals. [19]
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 ]