Paris 2024 Olympics medal tally: Indian winners from every sport - full list and table
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A total of 117 Indian athletes made up the contingent that went on the hunt for medals and sporting immortality at the Paris 2024 Olympics, which ran from July 26 to August 11.
In all, India won six medals - a silver and five bronze - at the Paris 2024 Olympics.
Manu Bhaker won the first medal for India at the Paris 2024 Olympics. She bagged a bronze and became the first Indian woman to win an Olympic shooting medal. She then created history by becoming 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.
Swapnil Kusale added a third medal in shooting to make it India’s biggest haul in a sport in a single edition of the Olympics.
The Indian men’s hockey team matched their Tokyo 2020 success with the bronze in Paris while Neeraj Chopra became the most successful individual Olympian after he claimed a silver medal in the javelin throw.
Later, Aman Sehrawat became India's youngest Olympic medallist when he won bronze in wrestling.
However, India left the Paris 2024 Olympics with more heartbreaks than cheers. India missed out on six potential medals, most by a whisker, with the athletes finishing fourth in their respective events. This included Lakshya Sen, Mirabai Chanu and Manu Bhaker, who could have bagged her third medal at the Games.
Vinesh Phogat’s disqualification ahead of a historic final also added to India’s woes.
There was 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.
Neeraj Chopra, badminton ace PV Sindhu, weightlifter Mirabai Chanu, boxer Lovlina Borgohain and select members of the Harmanpreet Singh-led Indian men’s hockey team were the other returning Olympic medallists in the Indian contingent to Paris 2024.
Overall, India have won 41 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 13 medals including eight golds, has been the biggest contributor to India’s Olympic medals tally followed by wrestling with eight medals.
India returned with its best-ever haul of seven medals, including one gold, from Tokyo 2020.