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India’s medals and records at Paris 2024: A total of 117 Indian athletes, including five reserves, are on the hunt for medals and sporting immortality at the Paris 2024 Olympics, which runs from July 26 to August 11.
There will be Indian interest in a total of 69 medal events across 16 sports – archery, athletics, badminton, boxing, equestrian, golf, hockey, judo, rowing, sailing, shooting, swimming, table tennis and tennis – at the Paris 2024 Olympics.
India’s medals and records at Paris 2024
- Neeraj Chopra (athletics) – Silver
- Aman Sehrawat (wrestling) – Bronze
- Indian men’s hockey team – Bronze
- Swapnil Kusale (shooting) – Bronze
- Manu Bhaker-Sarabjot Singh (shooting) – Bronze
- Manu Bhaker (shooting) – Bronze
Records at Paris 2024
- Aged 21 years and 24 days, Aman Sehrawat became India’s youngest medallist in an individual event at the Olympics.
- Neeraj Chopra became the first track and field athlete in independent India to win two medals at the Olympics.
- For the first time since Munich 1972, India bagged back-to-back Olympic medals in men’s hockey.
- Lakshya Sen was the first Indian male badminton player to reach the singles semi-finals at the Olympic Games.
- India beat Australia in men’s hockey at the Summer Games for the first time in 52 years.
- Dhiraj Bommadevara and Ankita Bhakat finished fourth in the mixed team archery competition, securing India’s best result in the sport at the Olympics.
- Three medals in shooting at Paris 2024 resulted in India’s best tally in a sport in a single edition of the Summer Games.
- Manika Batra became the first Indian table tennis player to make the pre-quarterfinals in a singles event at the Olympics.
- Manu Bhaker became the first athlete from independent India to win two medals at one edition of the Olympic Games.
- Manu Bhaker-Sarabjot Singh bagged India’s first shooting team medal at the Olympics.
- Manu Bhaker, remarkably, became the first Indian female shooter to win a medal at the Olympics.
Neeraj Chopra, who created history at Tokyo 2020 by winning gold in men’s javelin throw, is a part of the 29-member Indian athletics contingent to France and will look to contribute to India’s Paris 2024 Olympics medal tally.
Badminton ace PV Sindhu, weightlifter Mirabai Chanu, boxer Lovlina Borgohain and select members of the Harmanpreet Singh-led Indian men’s hockey team will be the other returning Olympic medallists in the Indian contingent to Paris 2024.
The likes of Avinash Sable, Aman Sehrawat and the hockey team will also be eager to add to India’s Olympic medal tally at Paris 2024.
Manu Bhaker won the first medal for India at the Paris 2024 Olympics. She bagged a brone and became the first Indian woman to win an Olympic shooting medal. She then created history to become the first Indian to win two medals at a single edition of the Olympics after she clinched a mixed team 10m air pistol bronze with Sarabjot Singh.
Overall, India have won 38 medals at the Olympics to date. Interestingly, it was Norman Pritchard’s dual silver which opened India’s account in Paris 1900.
KD Jadhav, with a wrestling bronze at Helsinki 1952, was the first individual athlete from independent India to get on the Olympic medal winners list. Weightlifter Karnam Malleswari became the first woman to win an Olympic medal at Sydney 2000.
Rifle shooter Abhinav Bindra was the first Indian to win an Olympic gold medal in an individual event at Beijing 2008 and was the only one to do so for over a decade before Neeraj’s javelin triumph at Tokyo 2020.
Men’s hockey, with 12 medals including eight golds, has been the biggest contributor to India’s Olympic medals tally followed by wrestling with seven medals.
India returned with its best-ever haul of seven medals, including one gold, from Tokyo 2020 and will look to better the count at Paris 2024.
So far, India have won six medals, a silver and five bronze, at the Paris 2024 Olympics.
