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This was also the last time the Indian field hockey team won the gold medal at the Olympics. [51] 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.
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 all-time medal table for all Olympic Games from 1896 to 2024, including Summer Olympic Games, Winter Olympic Games, and a combined total of both, is tabulated below. These Olympic medal counts do not include the 1906 Intercalated Games which are no longer recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as official Games. The IOC ...
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.
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 ...
This was India's 2nd most successful Olympics in terms of total medals, they won a total of 6 medals (2 silver and 4 bronze), doubling the nation's previous record (3 medals at the 2008 Beijing Olympics). Two medals were awarded to athletes in shooting and wrestling. Female Indian athletes won two Olympic medals in one Games for the first time.
[6] [7] These medals were won only by female athletes for the first time in history, a silver to badminton player P. V. Sindhu in the women's singles, who became India's youngest individual Olympic medallist and the first Indian woman to win an Olympic silver, as well as a bronze to freestyle wrestler Sakshi Malik in the women's 58 kg, who ...
Discipline (link to medalists list) Contested Number of Medals awarded Athlete(s) with the most medals (gold-silver-bronze) Athlete(s) with the most gold medals Olympics (up to 2022) Medal events (in 2022) Total Alpine skiing: Since 1936 19 11 167 168 165 500 Kjetil André Aamodt (4–2–2) Kjetil André Aamodt (4–2–2)