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India’s Performance in Olympic History |
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Olympics |
Key Highlight |
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Paris 1900 |
India’s debut with one participant |
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Antwerp 1920 |
The first official Indian contingent |
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Paris 1924 |
Debut in tennis with 5 players |
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Amsterdam 1928 |
The men’s hockey team won gold with Dhyan Chand’s 29 goals |
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Los Angeles 1932 to Berlin 1936 |
The hockey team won consecutive gold medals becoming dominant |
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London 1948 |
Largest contingent so far with 86 athletes in 9 games, Hockey team gold streak continued |
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Helsinki 1952 |
KD Jadhav won first individual Olympic medal (bronze) |
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Mexico City 1968 and Munich 1972 |
The hockey team settled for bronze medals. |
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Atlanta 1996 |
Leander Paes won bronze in men’s singles tennis |
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Sydney 2000 |
Karnam Malleswari won bronze in weightlifting becoming the first Indian woman medalist |
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Beijing 2008 |
Abhinav Bindra won India’s first individual gold and Vijender Singh & Sushil Kumar won bronze marking the first multi-medal haul since 1952 |
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London 2012 |
Saina Nehwal won India’s first badminton medal |
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Rio de Janeiro 2016 |
All medals by women with PV Sindhu & Sakshi Malik winning medals |
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Tokyo 2020 |
The best from India with 7 medals with the revival of the Men’s hockey team (bronze) and Neeraj Chopra’s gold in javelin.
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