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A bronze medal from the 1980 Summer Olympics The bronze commemorative Medal of John VIII Palaeologus by Pisanello (1438), made in various metals, but usually in bronze. A bronze medal in sports and other similar areas involving competition is a medal made of bronze awarded to the third-place finisher of contests or competitions such as the Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, etc.
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Karnam Malleswari, the first female Indian to win an Olympic medal, hails from Srikakulam district of Andhra Pradesh. She won the bronze medal on 19 September 2000, in the 69 kg category with a lift of 240 kg. [13] Dandamudi Rajagopal Rao, the first male Indian to win 13 Year national weightlifting champion.
The medal is a circular bronze disc 35 millimetres (1 + 3 ⁄ 8 inches) in diameter. On the obverse , or front, the National Emblem of India appears in the centre on a raised circle surrounded by four copies of the vajra , the weapon of Indra , the ancient Vedic king of the gods.
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She won a silver medal in the women's sabre individual category in the 2019 Tournoi Satellite Fencing Competition in Ghent, Belgium, after losing to Bashta Anna from Azerbaijan. [14] [15] She made history by becoming the first Indian to win a gold medal at the senior Commonwealth Fencing Championship in Canberra in the sabre event. She beat ...
Karnam Malleswari – Bronze medal for Weightlifting, first Indian woman to win a medal at the Olympics. P. V. Sindhu – Silver medal in 2016 and Bronze medal in 2020 for Badminton, the first Indian to become the Badminton World Champion and the only badminton player from India to win two consecutive medals at the Olympic Games.
Deepthi Jeevanji (born 27 September 2003) is an Indian para-athlete. [1] She won the bronze medal at the 2024 Paralympics in the 400 meters T20 race. At the 2024 World Championships, she set a world record of 55.06s. [2]