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This was also India's second ever individual gold medal after Abhinav Bindra won gold in shooting in 2008. 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 ...
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]
[108] [109] India won six medals in total including one silver and five bronze, three of which came from the shooting events. [110] Chopra won the only silver medal for India in the men's javelin throw event and became the first Indian individual medalist to have won a gold and silver at the Olympics. [111]
With his gold medal in the 2020 Olympics, he became the fifth individual multiple medallist for India and first to win a gold and silver combination. [ 97 ] He secured second place at the Lausanne Diamond League javelin throw competition on 22 August 2024, delivering a season-best throw of 89.49 meters.
Host nation Japan won 27 gold medals, surpassing its gold medal tally of 16 at both the 1964 and 2004 summer editions. [9] Athletes from that nation also won 58 medals overall, which eclipsed its record of 41 overall medals won at the previous Summer Olympics. [10] American swimmer Caeleb Dressel won the most gold medals at the Games with five ...
India: 20 74 79 29 9 28 Belarus: 19 61 84 18 5 29 Kazakhstan: 16 47 77 29 4 30 Serbia: 16 37 39 18 8 31 Brazil: 15 58 91 35 6 32 Hong Kong: 14 66 93 25 7 33 Austria: 13 40 112 64 0 34 Netherlands: 11 35 95 52 4 35 Czechoslovakia A: 10 50 73 2 - 36 Mongolia: 8 32 81 57 6 37 Czech Republic: 7 39 80 45 3 38 Sweden: 7 35 89 66 2 39 Yugoslavia A: 6 ...
All-India Railway Championships Bhubaneswar, India [25] 4 × 100 m relay: 38.89 India Rahamatulla Molla Suresh Sathya Shameer Mon A. Qureshi: 12 October 2010 Commonwealth Games: New Delhi, India [26] [27] 4 × 400 m relay: 3:00.25 India Muhammed Anas Noah Nirmal Tom Arokia Rajiv Amoj Jacob: 6 August 2021 Olympic Games: Tokyo, Japan [28] 2:59.05 ...
India competed in the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan, from 24 August to 5 September 2021. India made its official debut at the 1968 Summer Paralympics and has appeared in every edition of the Summer Paralympics since 1984. India sent a contingent consisting of 54 athletes competing across nine sports in the Games.