India’s History in Olympics
Indians has won eight gold medals in Hockey, six of them successively, three silver medals ( 2 in athletics and 1 in Hockey) and four Bronze medals from the Olympics so far.
| 1900 Paris, France | ||
| Winner / Player/ Team | Event | Medal /Achievement |
| Athletics | ||
| Norman Pritchard |
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| 1920 Antwerp, Belgium | ||
| Chugle | Athletics -marathon |
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| 1928 Amsterdam, Netherlands | ||
| Hockey team under Captain Jaipal Singh till semifinals and under Vice captain Eric Pinniger in the finals. The team included Dhyan Chand who scored three goals in the last four minutes of the finals to sweep the Indian team to victory. | Hockey | Gold Medal by beating Holland 3 – 0 (India’s first ever Olympic gold medal and victory in a world tournament) |
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| Hockey team under Captain Lal Shah Bokhari. Dhyan Chand (12) and Roop Singh (13) scored the maximum goals during the two games played against Japan (11-1) and USA (24-1). | Hockey | Gold Medal by beating USA 24-1- the first biggest |
| 1936 Berlin, Germany | ||
| Hockey team under Captain Dhyan Chand. It was to be Dhyan Chand’s last Olympic games | Hockey | Gold Medal by beating Germany 8-1 in the finals held on August 15 1936. |
| Zawweik from Burma | Weight lifting (India’s debut) | 15th place 75-kg class |
| 1948 London, G. Britain | ||
| Hockey team under Captain Kishan Lal | Hockey | Gold Medal by beating Britain 4-0 in the finals (India’s first gold medal as a free country). |
| Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav. | Wrestling | 6th place in (freestyle/flyweight) |
| Henry Rebello | Athletics- Triple Jump | He made a new national mark of 50 feet and two inches, but could not participate in finals due to injury. |
| 1952 Helsinki, Finland | ||
| Hockey team under Captain Kunwar Digvijay Singh Babu. Balbir Singh scored the maximum goals -9 out of the total goals scored in the three games played. | Hockey | Gold Medal by beating Holland 6-1 in the finals |
| Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav | Wrestling | Bronze medal-bantamweight freestyle |
| 1956 Melbourne, Autralia | ||
| Hockey team under captain Balbir Singh. Udham Singh scored a total of 15 goals, the highest tally by an Indian at an Olympics till that date | Hockey | Gold Medal beating Pakistan 1-0 in the finals ( India’s sixth consecutive Olympic gold medal, a record for any country in any team sport in the Olympics |
| D Rajagopal | Weight lifting | 10th place in plus 90-kg class |
| 1960 Rome, Italy | ||
| Milkha Singh | Athletics – 400m sprint | 4th place, missed a medal by one-tenth of a second despite a time faster than the then world record |
| L K Das | Weight lifting | 12th place in the 60-kg section. |
| Hockey team under captain Leslie Claudius | Hockey | Silver Medal, Pakistan beat India 0-1 in the final. |
| 1964 Tokyo, Japan | ||
| Hockey team under Captain Charanjit Singh. Shankar Lakshman, Indian goalkeeper who saved India from defeat was justifiably awarded ‘Man of the match’. | Hockey | Gold Medal in a narrow win beating Pakistan 1-0 in the finals |
| Dr Karni Singh the erstwhile Maharaja of Bikaner | Shooting | Bronze medal |
| Gurbachan Singh Randhawa | Athletics 110m hurdles | Fifth place |
| M L Ghosh L K Das |
Weight lifting | 14th place – 56kg class 13th place – 60kg event |
| 1968 Mexico city, Mexico | ||
| Hockey team under Captains Prithipal & Gurbux Singh | Hockey | Bronze Medal with Pakistan winning the gold and Australia the silver medal. |
| 1972 Munich, W. Germany | ||
| Hockey team under Captain Harmeek Singh | Hockey | Bronze Medal with Germany winning the gold and Pakistan the silver medal |
| Anil Mondal | Weight lifting | Placed 12th in the 52-kg category |
| 1976 Montreal, Canada | ||
| Sriram Singh | Athletics- 800m final | Seventh place |
| 1980 Moscow, USSR | ||
| Hockey team under Captain Vasudevan Bhaskaran | Hockey | Gold Medal after 16 years by winning over Spain 4-3 in the finals |
| 1984 Los Angeles , USA | ||
| P.T Usha | Athletics- 400m hurdles | Lost the bronze medal by 1/100th of a second |
| P.T.Usha, M.D.Valsamma, Vandana Rao, Shiny Abraham | Athletics- 4 X 400 m Women’s relay | 7th place |
| Mahendran | Weight Lifting | 10th in the 52-kg class |
| 1992 Barcelona, Spain | ||
| Deepankar Bhattacharya | Badminton | Made it to the second round lost to top seeded Chinese player in the second round. |
| Adhishekar | Weight Lifting | Placed 12th in the 52-kg event |
| Leander Paes and Ramesh | Tennis | Reached the quarterfinals of the doubles narrowly missing the bronze |
| 1996 Atlanta, USA | ||
| Leander Paes | Tennis | Bronze medal |
| 2000 Sydney, Australia | ||
| Karnam Malleswari | Weight Lifting | Bronze Medal in 69kg category |
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