PRIDE OF THE NATION: OLYMPIC MEDALS WON BY OUR SPORTSMEN/WOMEN
India’s medals in Olympics from 1928
PRIDE OF THE NATION: OLYMPIC MEDALS WON BY OUR SPORTSMEN/WOMEN.
GOLD MEDALS: EIGHT GOLD MEDALS IN FIELD HOCKEY:
1928 Amsterdam, 1932 Los Angeles, 1936 Berlin, 1948 London,1952 Helsinki,
1956 Melborne, 1964 Tokyo, 1980 Moscow.
GOLD MEDAL : Shooting:10 meter Air Rifle Shooting: Abhinav Bindra.Beijing Olympic 2008.
GOLD MEDAL: Javelin Throw: 87.58 meters. Neeraj Chopra(23yrs) Tokyo Olympic 2020.
SILVER MEDALS: TWO MEDALS in 200 mts. Hurdles and 200 mts.
Run by Norman Pritchard, 1900 Paris Olympic.
SILVER Medals: Field Hockey, 1960 Rome Olympic.
SILVER MEDAL:Double Trap Shooting:Major Rajyavardhan Singh Rathod, 2004 Athens.
SILVER Medal:50 mtr.Pistol Shooting:Vijaykumar, 2012 London OLYMPIC.
SILVER MEDAL:Wrestling 66 kg. Sushilkumar,2012 London Olympic.
SILVER MEDAL;Badminton: Pusrala Venkata Sindhu, 2016 Rio Olympic.
SILVER MEDAL:Wrestling 87 kg.; Ravikumar Dahiya(23yrs)2020 Tokyo Olympic.
SILVER MEDAL:Weight Lifting 49 kg. Saikhom Mirabai Chanu,2020 Tokyo Olympic.
BRONZ MEDAL WINNERS:-
WRSTLING Bantamweight: Khashaba Jadhav, 1952 Helsinki Olympic.
FIELD HOCKEY Two Bronz Medals;1968 Mexico and 1972 Munich OLYMPIC.
TENNIS: Liander PAIES, 1996 Atlanta Olympic.
Weight Lifting 69 kg.: Krnam Malleshwari,2000 Sydney Olympic.
Wrestling 66kg. Freestyle:Sushilkumar, 2008 Beijing Olympic.
Boxing75 kg. Midleweight: Vijender Singh,2008 Beijing Olympic.
Air RIFLE Shooting 10 meter: Gagan Narang, 20012 London Olympic.
Badminton; Saina Nehwal, 2012 London Olympic.
Boxing 51 kg. FLY WEIGHT; Mary Kom, 2012 LONDON OlYmpic.
Wrestling 60 kg.: Yogeshwar Dutt, 2012 London Olympic.
Wrestling 58 kg.: Sakshi Malik, 2016 Rio Olympic.
Wrestling 65 kg. ; Bajrang Puniya,(27 yrs.) 2020 Tokyo Olympic.
Boxing 69 kg. ; Lovlina Borgohain, 2020 Tokyo Olympic.
Badminton: Pusrala Venkata Sindhu, 2020 Tokyo Olympic.
India finished 48th in overall tally. By count of Medals it would have been 33rd. But the Ranking is as per GOLD-Silver and Bronz Medals. At Beijing 51 st, London 57th, Rio 67th.
Ramesh G. Kharkar
Kreedacharya, Thane Bhushan, Statistician-Athletic Fed, India, Seva Ratna-Vyas Creation,
Member-Asson.of Track & Field Statisticians,U.S., Expert- World Athletics, Monaco Cedex. 10th AUGUST 2021.
By Ramesh G. Kharkar
