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India's best performance happened at the 2020 Games, ... Leander Paes won a bronze medal in 1996 for India's first Olympic medal in nearly 16 years.
India won six medals including a silver and five bronze to be ranked 71st amongst the 206 NOCs that participated in the Olympics. This was India's third-best medal haul after the 2020 and 2012 respectively. Manu Bhaker won two bronze medals in shooting and became the first Indian to win two medals in a single Olympics since India gained ...
Indian athletes have appeared in every edition of the Summer Olympic Games since 1920 and this edition of the Games marked the nation's 25th appearance at the Summer Olympics. [4] Originally scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020, the games were postponed to 23 July to 8 August 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic .
India sends far fewer athletes and support staff to the Olympics than top teams like the US, Majumdar said. For example, 117 Indian competitors went to Paris, compared with nearly 600 Americans.
India has entered four athletes into the table tennis competition at the Games. 2012 Olympian Soumyajit Ghosh and Manika Batra secured the Olympic spot each in the men's and women's singles as the highest-ranked player coming from the South Asia zone, while Sharath Kamal and 2004 Olympian Mouma Das scored a second-stage draw victory each to ...
India, the world’s most populous country, is a serial underperformer at the Olympic Games. Here’s why.
India's best appearance was at the 1956 Summer Olympics where its team reached the semi-finals. [4] Beginning with the 1992 Summer Olympics, the rules were changed so that only under-23 national teams are allowed to compete in the Games. India's U-23 national team has yet to qualify for the Olympic football competition.
India 25 September 2023: Asian Games: Hangzhou, China [11] 50m backstroke: 25.18 Srihari Nataraj India 20 June 2021: Belgrade Trophy Belgrade, Serbia [12] 100m backstroke: 53.77 tt: Srihari Nataraj India 27 June 2021: Sette Colli Trophy Rome, Italy [13] 200m backstroke: 2:01.70 h: Srihari Nataraj India 25 August 2019: World Junior Championships ...