A disappointing seventh-place finish at Montreal 1976 - then the Indian hockey team’s lowest at an Olympics - galvanised the team for Moscow 1980. In a reduced field, India won three and drew two matches in the preliminary rounds. In the final, the Indian team beat Spain 4-3 to win t...
Forget Atlanta: Israel won plenty of medals at Mathematics Olympics in India
Indian athleteswon a total of 27 medals - six gold, 12 silver and nine bronze - at theAsian Athletics Championships 2023, which was held at the Suphachalasai National Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand, from July 12 to 16. The performance saw India equal their best-ever showing at theAsian A...
Kiraly remained active in the sport, and in 2012 he became coach of the U.S. women’s national volleyball team. Two years later he guided them to the inaugural FIVB world championship, and the team later won the bronze medal at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. At the 2020 Tokyo ...
Olympic Games - Ancient Greece, Sports, Medals: The inaugural Games of the modern Olympics were attended by as many as 280 athletes, all male, coming from 12 countries. The athletes competed in 43 events covering athletics (track and field), cycling, swi
September 30: At the Millennium Olympics in Sydney, Barbados, the tiny island nation in the Caribbean, has overtaken the United States and China to head the medals tally – if you calculate the number of medals against the population. When sprinter Obadele Thompson won the bronze in the 100...
Lindsey Jacobellis won gold in the women's snowboard cross in Beijing. The race was vindication for her loss at the 2006 Torino Olympics when she approached the finish line in the lead and made a showboating move and settled with silver.Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images ...
Only a handful of top athletes land multimillion dollar endorsements or sponsorship deals, either before competing at the Olympics or after achieving success in the Games. Snowboarder Shaun White, for example, received his first board sponsorship when he was 7,NBC Sports reported. After he won his...
Paris 2024 Olympics medal table Published by Statista Research Department, Oct 24, 2024 At the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, the United States topped the medal table. In total, Team USA won a total of 126 medals, including 40 gold medals, 44 silver medals, and 42 bronze medals. Meanwhile,...
CAIRO: As the dust settles on the 2024 Paris Olympics, the Egyptian delegation walk away with just three medals. Ahmed Elgendy won gold in the modern pentathlon, Sara Samir claimed silver in weightlifting, and Mohamed Elsayed took bronze in fencing. Egyp