Leaving aside the golden period of Indian hockey from 1928-1956 - where
the country won six gold medals on the trot, India's Olympic success
hasn't been anything great.
India’s Olympic revival of sorts started with the Beijing Games in 2008 when Abhinav Bindra won the first ever individual gold medal for the country as India went on to win three medals overall.
Four years later, India doubled their tally to six and achieved their best ever medal haul at the London Games in 2012 but failed to win a gold.
India's Top 7 Olympic Moments
1)India became hockey giants and were on a rampage after the 1928 Amsterdam Games but the first gold has to be the most special one.
A legend in Major Dhyan Chand burst onto the scene and scored a whopping 14 goals in five matches to put his name in the history books as India became champions by thrashing hosts Netherlands 3-0 in the final.
Between 1928
and 1980, Indian Men's Hockey Team won eight gold medals (1928, 1932, 1936,
1948, 1952, 1956, 1964, 1980) and it surely was the golden period in the
country’s sports history
In 1960 India got Silver Medal in Hockey and in 1968, 1972, bronze medals
2)Independent India hadn’t won a single medal and hockey was our only saving grace. But Wrestler KD Jadhav clinched a bronze in 52-kg freestyle in the 1952 Helsinki Olympics to rewrite history books
3)Despite's hockey's glorious run, an individual gold was always missing. Shooter Abhinav Bindra ended that dry spell when he entered the record books in Beijing. on August 11, 2008, the man from Chandigarh won country’s first ever individual Olympic gold with a stunning comeback victory in the men's 10 metres air rifle event.
The wait was over and Bindra became India’s golden boy. It was also India’s first Olympic gold since the hockey team’s triumph in 1980.
4)Leander Paes has won 18 Grand Slam doubles titles but winning the bronze medal at 1996 Atlanta Olympics is undoubtedly the biggest high of his career. Ranked 127 in the world at that time, Paes was a wildcard participant and a win or two would have been a great achievement for him. But he went on to beat some of the top players before losing to the top-seed and home favourite Andre Agassi in the semis.
5)Not only was Karnam Malleswari the first Indian woman to win an Olympic medal, she was the first from a country to win an Olympic medal in weightlifting. Her bronze in the 69-kg category, with an effort of 110kg in snatch and 130kg in clean and jerk, was the only medal India won in the 2000 Sydney Olympics
6)Wrestler Sushil Kumar became the first Indian to win a wrestling medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics since 1952, and the silver in London 2012 made him the first Indian to win two medals in an individual event.
7)Boxer Vijender Singh’s bronze medal in 2008 Beijing Olympics holds special significance because boxing was a nonstarter in India until then at but his win started a revolution in India. Vijender lost in the semis at Beijing but by making it to the last four of the middleweight category, he assured India of its first Olympic medal in boxing
Overall India has won just 26 medals - 9 gold, 9 silver and 11 bronze
India first participated in the Olympic Games in 1900 (as part of the British Empire) and has been consistent in its participation in the Summer Olympics since 1920.
India’s Olympic revival of sorts started with the Beijing Games in 2008 when Abhinav Bindra won the first ever individual gold medal for the country as India went on to win three medals overall.
Four years later, India doubled their tally to six and achieved their best ever medal haul at the London Games in 2012 but failed to win a gold.
India's Top 7 Olympic Moments
1)India became hockey giants and were on a rampage after the 1928 Amsterdam Games but the first gold has to be the most special one.
A legend in Major Dhyan Chand burst onto the scene and scored a whopping 14 goals in five matches to put his name in the history books as India became champions by thrashing hosts Netherlands 3-0 in the final.
In 1960 India got Silver Medal in Hockey and in 1968, 1972, bronze medals
2)Independent India hadn’t won a single medal and hockey was our only saving grace. But Wrestler KD Jadhav clinched a bronze in 52-kg freestyle in the 1952 Helsinki Olympics to rewrite history books
3)Despite's hockey's glorious run, an individual gold was always missing. Shooter Abhinav Bindra ended that dry spell when he entered the record books in Beijing. on August 11, 2008, the man from Chandigarh won country’s first ever individual Olympic gold with a stunning comeback victory in the men's 10 metres air rifle event.
The wait was over and Bindra became India’s golden boy. It was also India’s first Olympic gold since the hockey team’s triumph in 1980.
4)Leander Paes has won 18 Grand Slam doubles titles but winning the bronze medal at 1996 Atlanta Olympics is undoubtedly the biggest high of his career. Ranked 127 in the world at that time, Paes was a wildcard participant and a win or two would have been a great achievement for him. But he went on to beat some of the top players before losing to the top-seed and home favourite Andre Agassi in the semis.
5)Not only was Karnam Malleswari the first Indian woman to win an Olympic medal, she was the first from a country to win an Olympic medal in weightlifting. Her bronze in the 69-kg category, with an effort of 110kg in snatch and 130kg in clean and jerk, was the only medal India won in the 2000 Sydney Olympics
6)Wrestler Sushil Kumar became the first Indian to win a wrestling medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics since 1952, and the silver in London 2012 made him the first Indian to win two medals in an individual event.
7)Boxer Vijender Singh’s bronze medal in 2008 Beijing Olympics holds special significance because boxing was a nonstarter in India until then at but his win started a revolution in India. Vijender lost in the semis at Beijing but by making it to the last four of the middleweight category, he assured India of its first Olympic medal in boxing
Overall India has won just 26 medals - 9 gold, 9 silver and 11 bronze
India first participated in the Olympic Games in 1900 (as part of the British Empire) and has been consistent in its participation in the Summer Olympics since 1920.
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