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Indian athletes have appeared in every edition of the Summer Olympic Games since 1920 and this edition of the Games marked the nation's 25th appearance at the Summer Olympics. [4] Originally scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020, the games were postponed to 23 July to 8 August 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic .
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 ...
All-India Railway Championships Bhubaneswar, India [34] 4 × 100 m relay: 38.89 India Rahamatulla Molla Suresh Sathya Shameer Mon A. Qureshi: 12 October 2010 Commonwealth Games: New Delhi, India [35] [36] 4 × 400 m relay: 3:00.25 India Muhammed Anas Noah Nirmal Tom Arokia Rajiv Amoj Jacob: 6 August 2021 Olympic Games: Tokyo, Japan [37] 2:59.05 ...
Ram Singh Yadav (born 7 November 1984) is an Indian marathon runner. Ram represented India at the 2012 Summer Olympics, London.He achieved the B qualification standard (2:18:00) by clocking a time of 2:16:59 at the 2012 Mumbai Marathon, which is also his best performance in this event.
[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 ...
Abhinav Bindra shows off India’s first-ever individual Olympic gold in the men's 10m air rifle shooting competition at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games on August 11, 2008. - Desmond Boylan/Reuters
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. India had its best performance in the 2018 summer games, winning thirteen medals including three gold. [2]
Sushil Kumar won the second ever wrestling medal for India, the first being the bronze earned by Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav in the 1952 Helsinki Olympics. Vijender Singh won a bronze medal in the middleweight boxing category, having lost in the semifinals. This was India's first-ever Olympic medal in boxing.