 "How many medals have India won at Olympics?")
India started their Olympic campaign in 1900 with two medals (both silver) and have won a total of 35 medals across 24 Summer Games. The breakup of the 35 medals includes 10 Gold, 9 Silver, and 16 bronze. The Indian men’s hockey team has won eight out of the 10 gold medals with Abhinav Bindra (shooting) and Neeraj Chopra (javelin throw) winning the other two.
The last gold medal in hockey, however, came at Moscow 1980 and the men’s team won a bronze in the last Olympics in Tokyo.
India’s first Olympic medal was won by Norman Pritchard , an Anglo-Indian athlete, at the 1900 Paris Olympics. He won two silver medals, both in athletics (200m race and 200m hurdles).
The first gold medal was won by the Indian hockey team in the 1928 Games which was held in Amsterdam. They also won the first medal (gold) for independent India at London 1948.
The first individual medal after independence was won by wrestler KD Jadhav (bronze) at Helsinki 1952.
The first Individual gold medal was won at Beijing 2008 by Bindra.
The first woman athlete to win a medal for India was weightlifter Karnam Malleswari who won bronze at the Olympics in Sydney 2000.
Full list of India’s medal winners in the Olympics:
Impact Shorts
More Shorts| Athlete | Medal | Event | Olympics edition |
|---|---|---|---|
| Norman Pritchard | Silver | Men’s 200m | Paris 1900 |
| Norman Pritchard | Silver | Men’s 200m hurdles | Paris 1900 |
| Indian hockey team | Gold | Men’s hockey | Amsterdam 1928 |
| Indian hockey team | Gold | Men’s hockey | Los Angeles 1932 |
| Indian hockey team | Gold | Men’s hockey | Berlin 1936 |
| Indian hockey team | Gold | Men’s hockey | London 1948 |
| Indian hockey team | Gold | Men’s hockey | Helsinki 1952 |
| KD Jadhav | Bronze | Men’s bantamweight wrestling | Helsinki 1952 |
| Indian hockey team | Gold | Men’s hockey | Melbourne 1956 |
| Indian hockey team | Silver | Men’s hockey | Rome 1960 |
| Indian hockey team | Gold | Men’s hockey | Tokyo 1964 |
| Indian hockey team | Bronze | Men’s hockey | Mexico City 1968 |
| Indian hockey team | Bronze | Men’s hockey | Munich 1972 |
| Indian hockey team | Gold | Men’s hockey | Moscow 1980 |
| Leander Paes | Bronze | Men’s singles tennis | Atlanta 1996 |
| Karnam Malleswari | Bronze | Women’s 54kg weightlifting | Sydney 2000 |
| Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore | Silver | Men’s double trap shooting | Athens 2004 |
| Abhinav Bindra | Gold | Men’s 10m air rifle shooting | Beijing 2008 |
| Vijender Singh | Bronze | Men’s middleweight boxing | Beijing 2008 |
| Sushil Kumar | Bronze | Men’s 66kg wrestling | Beijing 2008 |
| Sushil Kumar | Silver | Men’s 66kg wrestling | London 2012 |
| Vijay Kumar | Silver | Men’s 25m rapid pistol shooting | London 2012 |
| Saina Nehwal | Bronze | Women’s singles badminton | London 2012 |
| Mary Kom | Bronze | Women’s flyweight boxing | London 2012 |
| Yogeshwar Dutt | Bronze | Men’s 60kg wrestling | London 2012 |
| Gagan Narang | Bronze | Men’s 10m air rifle shooting | London 2012 |
| PV Sindhu | Silver | Women’s singles badminton | Rio 2016 |
| Sakshi Malik | Bronze | Women’s 58kg wrestling | Rio 2016 |
| Mirabai Chanu | Silver | Women’s 49kg weightlifting | Tokyo 2020 |
| Lovlina Borgohain | Bronze | Women’s welterweight boxing | Tokyo 2020 |
| PV Sindhu | Bronze | Women’s singles badminton | Tokyo 2020 |
| Ravi Kumar Dahiya | Silver | Men’s 57kg wrestling | Tokyo 2020 |
| Indian hockey team | Bronze | Men’s hockey | Tokyo 2020 |
| Bajrang Punia | Bronze | Men’s 65kg wrestling | Tokyo 2020 |
| Neeraj Chopra | Gold | Men’s javelin throw | Tokyo 2020 |
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