The two medals were the only returns for India at Rio 2016 among 117 athletes, its largest contingent for any single Olympics, ensuring that the nation did not return empty-handed for the first time since Barcelona 1992. It was a scare that looked very much possible until the last few days...
medals in tennis (Leander Paes), boxing (Vijender Singh and Mary Kom), shooting (Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, Gagan Narang, and Abhinav Bindra), badminton (Sania Nehwal), and wrestling (Sushil Kumar and Yogeshwar Dutt). The Indian football team also performed commendably in the Olympics ...
The three medals eclipsed the two won in shooting at London 2012. It was, however, the first in the 50m rifle 3P event at the Olympics. Indian hockey team, bronze medal - men’s hockey - Paris 2024 The Indian men’s hockey team won its second successive medal in the Olympics after ...
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Three of India's 19 medals were won by women, with Lekhara winning two and Bhavinaben Patel winning one. The only Indian woman to medal at the Paralympics before this edition was Deepa Malik in 2016. 2 Singhraj Adana and Lekhara both won two medals each in Tokyo, ma...
India dominated in hockey and achieved the highest number of Olympic gold medals from 1928 to 1956. During the 1936 Berlin Olympics, India allowed just one goal throughout the tournament and showed complete superiority over competitors like France, the USA, and Germany in the finals, which were...
The political map of ancient and medieval India was made up of countless kingdoms with fluctuating boundaries that rendered the country vulnerable to foreign invasions. The Aryans were the first to invade the country. They came out of the North in about 1500 BC and brought with them strong cul...
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India has now won just41 Olympic medals in total since its debut in 1900, all at the Summer Games. “There is no doubt that India has been an underperformer in the Olympics and generally in global sports,” said Ronojoy Sen, author of “Nation at Play: A History of Spor...