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Neeraj Chopra. India. Indian Army. Subedar Major Neeraj Chopra PVSM VSM (born 24 December 1997) is an Indian track and field athlete. Considered as the greatest Indian javelin thrower, he's a double medalist at the Olympics, World Championships, and the Asian Games. He has won the Diamond League once.
Indian athletes have won 41 medals, all at the Summer Games. For a period of time, the Indian Men's Field Hockey Team was dominant in Olympic competition, winning eleven medals in twelve Olympics between 1928 and 1980 including eight gold medals of which six were won consecutively from 1928 to 1956.
Men's 10m Air Rifle. Abhinav Apjit Bindra OLY (born 28 September 1982) is an Indian Olympic gold medallist, retired sport shooter, and businessman. [1] He is the first and one of only two Indians to win an Individual Olympic Gold Medal. [2][3] He is the first Indian to have held concurrently the world and Olympic titles for the men's 10-meter ...
2024. India competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. Indian athletes have appeared in every edition of the Summer Olympics since 1920, although they made their official debut at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris. 117 Indian athletes participated in Rio 2016, 63 men and 54 women, across 15 sports ...
Leander Adrian Paes OLY [3] (/ peɪs / PAYSS; born 17 June 1973) is an Indian former professional tennis player. He is regarded as one of the greatest doubles tennis players of all-time and holds the record for the most doubles wins in the Davis Cup. [4] Paes won eight men's doubles and ten mixed doubles Grand Slam titles.
Murlikant Petkar is India's first Paralympic gold medalist. He won an individual gold medal in the 1972 Summer Paralympics, in Heidelberg, Germany. He set a world record in the 50 m freestyle swimming event, at 37.33 seconds. In the same games he participated in javelin, precision javelin throw and slalom. [contradictory] He was a finalist in ...
At the same Olympics, Sakshi Malik became the first Indian woman to win a medal in Wrestling. She won the bronze medal in Women's 58 kg freestyle wrestling. This was the first Olympics for India where all the medallists (2) were women. [11] P. V. Sindhu, Saikhom Mirabai Chanu and Lovlina Borgohain made India proud by winning medals at the 2020 ...
Neeraj Chopra won India's first-ever Olympic gold medal in athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics (held in 2021) by throwing his best of 87.58 meters in the javelin throw final. Chopra is the first javelin thrower from India who won a gold medal, and only the second Indian sportsperson after Abhinav Bindra to win an Olympic gold medal. [11] [42]