Olympic Medal Winners From India, Check Tokyo Olympics 2021 India Medals

Olympic Medal Winners From India

Recently, India competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan and made history by winning the first gold medal of the country in athletics. Originally, the Olympics were scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020 but after the pandemic dates were changed and were scheduled from 23 July to 8 August 2021.

Olympics 2021 India

India has been taking part in every edition of the Summer Olympics since 1920, however, it made its official debut at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris. In the last Olympics of 2020, the nation sent its largest-ever contingent of 126 competitors to the Games.

The 2020 Summer Olympics has proved to be the most victorious Games for India since its first regular Olympics appearance in 1920,  with Indian Olympians winning 7 medals (1 gold, 2 silver and 4 bronze). The Indian contingent participated in a record 69 events, and earned medals across 18 athletic disciplines.

Neeraj Chopra from India won the first-ever gold medal in athletics of the nation and the second-ever individual gold and first individual gold since the Beijing 2008 Olympics, won by Abhinav Bindra in Shooting. This was India’s first athletics medal since its first Olympics appearance as an independent nation in 1948, and it’s third overall after Norman Pritchard’s silver medals in 1900.

Saikhom Mirabai Chanu won India’s first-ever silver in women’s weightlifting (49 kg), becoming the first Indian Olympic medallist in the sport since 2000. P. V. Sindhu won a bronze in women’s badminton to become the first Indian female athlete and the second Indian to win two consecutive Olympic medals in individual events (having won a silver medal in 2016).

The men’s national field hockey team won the bronze medal, their first Olympic medal since 1980. The men’s 4 x 400m relay team set a new Asian record of 3:00.25. Aditi Ashok in women’s golf and Deepak Punia in men’s freestyle wrestling (86 kg) both placed fourth in final rankings, as did the women’s national field hockey team, which achieved its best performance since its Olympics debut in 1980.

Olympic Medal Winners From India List

After knowing about the performances of India in the Olympics in different years, let’s have a look at all the medals in all these years. It will help you in your exams too as it is considered to be one of the most important topics even from an exam point of view.

Check the table given below –