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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. [ 52 ] [ 53 ] [ 54 ] In between, India returned to compete in the 1988 Winter Olympics after a gap of nearly 20 years.
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 ...
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 ...
Here are all the Olympic medal events scheduled for Friday, in addition to what time the action starts. All times are Eastern: Table Tennis. 4 a.m.: men's team bronze medal match. 9 a.m.: men's ...
The 2024 Paris Olympics may be nearing its end, but some crucial medals are still on the line.. Fifty-two Olympic medals were awarded Saturday across 21 sports, including a gold in men's ...
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]
This was also India's first athletics medal since its first appearance as an independent nation in 1948, and its third overall after Norman Pritchard's silver medals in 1900. [ 16 ] With her silver medal in the women's 49 kg event, Saikhom Mirabai Chanu won India's first ever silver medal in weight lifting , and its first medal in the sport ...
The distance of the marathon at the Olympics has varied in the early years, before being standardized at 42,195 m in 1924, the distance that was run at the 1908 Olympics. In other years, the distances have been: 1896: 40,000 m (approximately) 1900: 40,260 m (25.02 mi) 1904: 40,000 m (24.85 mi) 1912: 40,200 m (24.98 mi) 1920: 40,750 m (25.32 mi)