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India first participated at the Olympic Games in 1900, becoming the first Asian nation to do so. Norman Pritchard represented the country and won two medals, both silver, in athletics. The nation first sent a team to the Summer Olympic Games in 1920 and has participated in every Summer Games since
Indian Grand Prix 4 Patiala, India [62] 4 × 400 m relay: 3:26.89 India Rajwinder Kaur K. M. Beenamol Chitra K. Soman Manjit Kaur: 27 August 2004 Olympic Games: Athens, Greece [101] Road Events 10 km: 34:14 Lalita Babar: 28 November 2010 Hyderabad 10 km Hyderabad, India [102] Half marathon: 1:10:31 Suriya Loganathan: 19 November 2017 Delhi Half ...
Neeraj Chopra won India's first-ever Olympic gold medal in athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics (held in 2021) by throwing his best of 87.58 meters in the javelin throw final. Chopra is the first javelin thrower from India who won a gold medal, and only the second Indian sportsperson after Abhinav Bindra to win an Olympic gold medal. [11] [42]
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 Indian Olympic Association was recognized by the International Olympic Committee in 1927. [1] The nation made its Summer Olympics debut in the 1900 Olympics at Paris with a lone athlete participating in the Games. [2] By the time the IOA was established, India had already competed in two more Summer Olympic Games in 1920, and 1924. [3]
In the mixed 10 m air pistol team event, she partnered with Sarabjot Singh to win another bronze medal, thus becoming the first Indian since independence to win two medals in a single Olympics. Swapnil Kusale then won another bronze medal in the men's 50 m rifle three positions event. This became India's seventh shooting medal across the ...
After Norman Pritchard who won two silver medals in athletics in 1900 under colonial India, Khashaba was the first individual athlete from independent India to win a medal at the Olympics. [6] In the years before Khashaba, India would only win gold medals in field hockey, a team sport.
P. T. Usha lost the bronze medal in 400 metre hurdles by one-hundredth of a second. Earlier in the Games, Shiny Abraham reached the semifinals of 800 metres with a personal best of 2:04.69 seconds and became the first Indian woman to reach the semi-finals of an Olympic event. She finished last in the semifinal.