Tokyo Olympics 2021 India Medals, Medal Tally, Theme, Mascot

Tokyo Olympics 2021

The 2020 Summer Olympics, commonly known as Tokyo 2021 or the Games of the XXXII Olympiad, were an international multi-sport competition that took place in Tokyo, Japan, from July 23, 2021, to August 8, 2021. Some preliminary competitions started on July 21, 2021. On September 7, 2013, Tokyo was chosen to host the event at the 125th IOC Session in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Tokyo Olympics 2021: Postponed Due to COVID-19 in 2020

The Olympic Games were initially slated to run from 24 July to 9 August 2020, but on 24 March 2020, the event was postponed until 2021 owing to the global COVID-19 epidemic, marking the first time in the event’s history. For marketing purposes, the event did however continue to use the Tokyo 2020 moniker. The Greater Tokyo Area having been declared in a state of emergency in reaction to the pandemic, it was mostly held behind closed doors with no public spectators allowed, making it the first and only Olympic Games to be hosted without official spectators. With a total cost of almost $20 billion, the Games were the most expensive ever.

Tokyo Olympics 2021 India Medals

Following are the Athletes that won the Medals for India at the Tokyo Olympics 2021:

Tokyo Olympics 2021 India

Let us have a look at the Performance by the Indian Athletes at the Tokyo Olympics 2021:

Tokyo Olympics 2021 India Performance: Neeraj Chopra

Neeraj Chopra won the country of India its first gold medal ever in athletics. At the Summer Olympics in Tokyo in 2020, he won the gold medal in the javelin throw with a best throw of 87.58 metres. The Czech Republic’s Jakub Vadlejch came in second, and Vitezslav Vesely won the bronze medal. Neeraj is the first person to win an Olympic gold medal since Abhinav Bindra’s success at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.

Tokyo Olympics 2021 India Performance: Mirabai Chanu

Indian weightlifter Mirabai Chanu won a silver medal in the Olympics in Tokyo. She lifted a total of 202 kg in the Women’s 49 kg category. Chanu lost to Hou Zhihui of China, who took home the gold medal. She did far better than Indonesia’s Windy Aisah, who won the Bronze. She won the second weightlifting medal ever won by India. In the past, Karnam Malleswari took home the medal in this division. She was awarded the medal at the Sydney Olympics in 2000.

Tokyo Olympics 2021 India Performance: PV Sindhu

PV Sindhu has won a second medal at the Olympics this year in addition to the Bronze she won at the Tokyo Olympics 2020. She won a silver medal at Rio de Janeiro’s 2016 Olympic Games. She defeated China’s He Bing Jiao, winning by scores of 21-13 and 21-15, to claim the bronze medal.

Tokyo Olympics 2021 India Performance: Ravi Dahiya

In freestyle wrestling, Ravi Dahiya won a silver medal at the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics. He won in the 57 kg weight category. He has won the Asian championship twice and won the bronze medal at the 2019 World Wrestling Championships. In the year’s final match, he was defeated by Zavur Uguev of ROC by a score of 4–7. Uguev competed against Dahiya, a difficult foe who always pushed him to the limit.

Tokyo Olympics 2021 India Performance: Bajrang Punia

Bajrang Punia is the only Indian wrestler to have returned from the World Wrestling Championships with three medals. He competes in the 65 kg weight class, and this year he won the bronze medal at the Tokyo Olympics. He beat Kazakhstan’s Daulet Niyazbekov 8-0 in the men’s division, but Haji Aliyev of Azerbaijan upset him in the semifinals of the Tokyo Olympics 2020.

Tokyo Olympics 2021: Interesting and Unknown Facts

• Following the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo, and the 1998 Winter Olympics, the 2020 Games were the fourth Olympic Games to be hosted in Japan (Nagano).
• Tokyo made history by hosting the Summer Olympic Games twice in one city.
• Following the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, and before the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China, the 2020 Games were the second of three straight Olympics to be hosted in East Asia.
• Tokyo 2020 was the first and only Olympic Games to be hosted in an odd-numbered year, and the first Summer Olympics to be staged in a calendar year other than a leap year since the 1900 Games, thanks to the one-year postponement.
• 2020 saw the addition of new events in a number of current sports, such as 3×3 basketball, freestyle BMX, mixed gender team events, the return of Madison cycling for men, and the creation of the same event for women.
• The host organising committee was able to add additional sports to the Olympic schedule for just one Games according to new IOC regulations.
• Baseball and softball, karate, sport climbing, surfing, and skateboarding were the sports that the Japanese Olympic Committee introduced.
• The last four of these sports made their Olympic debuts, and the final three will remain on the Olympic programme.

Tokyo Olympics 2021 Medal Tally

In terms of total gold medals (39) and total medals (113), the United States came out on top, with China coming in second in both categories (38 and 89). With 27 gold medals and 58 total medals earned by their delegation at an Olympic Games, the host country Japan came in third place. With a total of 64 medals and 22 gold, Great Britain came in fourth. The Russian team, representing the ROC, placed third overall with 71 medals and fifth overall with 20 gold medals. Qatar, the Philippines, and Bermuda all took home their maiden Olympic gold medals. San Marino, Turkmenistan, and Burkina Faso all received their first-ever Olympic medals.

The following table is the Medal tally of Top 10 Countries in terms of Gold Medal Tally in Tokyo Olympics 2021, and also the position of India in the Tokyo Olympic 2021 Medal Tally:

Tokyo Olympics 2021 Mascot

The mascot for the Tokyo Olympics 2021 is called Miraitowa, which is a combination of the Japanese words Mirai, which means “Future,” and Towa, which means “Eternity.” The mascot symbolises both the new and the old, echoing the concept of “innovation from harmony.” Ryo Taniguchi designed the mascot for the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.

The original Olympic motto, “Faster, Higher, Stronger,” was changed to “Faster, Higher, Stronger- Together.” This change to the motto was made to show solidarity at a time when COVID-19 was wrecking havoc around the globe. Latin for “Citius, Altius, Fortius, Communiter” would be the new motto.

Tokyo Olympics 2021 Host City Selection

On September 7, 2013, at the 125th IOC Session in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) chose to choose the host city of the 2020 Summer Olympics utilising a thorough balloting process. Madrid and Istanbul tied for second place, thus a runoff vote was held to decide which of the two cities would be removed. None of the candidate cities received more than 50% of the votes in the first round. Tokyo and Istanbul competed head-to-head for the final vote. Tokyo was chosen with a majority of at least 49 votes (60 to 36), winning the election.

Tokyo Olympics 2021 Theme

Tokyo 2020 has built the opening ceremony around a number of different themes, but they are all grounded in the notion that the Games can inspire people all over the world with new hope and inspiration thanks to the active participation of athletes and the force of sport.

The topic of the Olympic Games Opening Ceremony is “United by Emotion,” although the overall theme of all ceremonies, including the opening and closing ones for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, is “Moving Forward.”

List Of Olympics Gold Medal Winners From India 

India has won 10 gold medals at all the Olympics. The India men’s hockey team itself accounts for eight of them. After Abhinav Bindra, Neeraj Chopra is the second individual Olympic champion.

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