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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 ...
The programme of the 2024 Summer Olympics featured 329 events in 32 sports, including the 28 "core" Olympic sports contested in 2016 and 2020, [1] and four optional sports that were proposed by the Paris Organising Committee: breaking made its Olympic debut as an optional sport, while skateboarding, sport climbing, and surfing returned from 2020.
India, the world’s most populous country, is a serial underperformer at the Olympic Games. Here’s why.
The United States led the final medal table for the fourth consecutive Summer Games, with 40 gold and 126 total medals, while China finished second with 40 gold and 91 medals in total. [15] The occasion marked the first time a gold medal tie among the two most successful nations has occurred in Summer Olympics history. [ 16 ]
[82] [83] Sakshi Malik became the first Indian female wrestler to win an Olympic medal with her bronze medal in the women's freestyle 58 kg category. [82] [84] Two Indian athletes represented the country in the 2018 Winter Olympics at PyeongChang. [85] Neeraj Chopra won India's first athletic gold medal in 2020 and followed up with a silver in ...
Americans would finish 1-2 in the women's individual foil as well, with Lee Kiefer defeating Lauren Scruggs 15-6 to defend her 2020 Tokyo Olympics gold medal. She's the first American woman and ...
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 India men's national field hockey team wins a bronze medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. [138] Neeraj Chopra wins a silver medal in Javelin throw at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. [139] 9 August – Aman Sehrawat wins a bronze medal in Men's freestyle 57 kilograms at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. [140]