Author: Subhi Saxena Date: 25/07/24
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India has earned its maximum number of Olympic medals in Hockey. India has made the highest medal haul for this game. We have 12 medals in Hockey with 8 of them being gold.
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Hockey won India its first-ever gold after independence, in the 1948 London Olympics.
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Abhinav Bindra in the 2008 Beijing Olympics won the first-ever individual Gold Medal for India. He won the medal in the 10m Air Rifle event.
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Reigning Olympic Champion Neeraj Chopra won the first-ever medal in Athletics for independent India and that too a Gold Medal. He did that in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
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Udham Singha and Leslie Claudius won the most medals for the country, 4 Golds but they did that in the team event, Hockey.
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The first-ever individual medal for the country in the Olympics, won by KD Jadhav in Wrestling. He won a bronze medal in the 1952 Helsinki Olympics.
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Karnam Malleswari won a bronze medal in the 2000 Sydney Olympics. She won the medal in weightlifting.
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Norman Pritchard won two silver medals in Athletics. He did this amazing feat in the pre-independence era, in the 1900 Paris Olympics.
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Sushil Kumar became the first individual multi-medalist after independence. He won a bronze in 2008 Beijing and a silver in the 2012 London Olympics.
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PV Sindhu is the first female Olympian to ever win more than one medal. She won a silver in the 2016 Rio Olympics and a Bronze in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
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