India’s marketing campaign on the Paris Olympics 2024 ended with six medals, a tally one wanting the document whole from Tokyo 2020. It’s, nonetheless, India’s third-best outing on the Summer time Video games after Tokyo 2020 and London 2012. Archery, athletics, badminton, boxing, equestrian, golf, hockey, judo, rowing, crusing, taking pictures, swimming, wrestling, desk tennis and tennis are the 16 sports activities Indian athletes took half in on the marquee occasion. Athletics boasted the biggest Indian illustration with a 29-member squad. In taking pictures, India fielded their largest-ever contingent of 21 shooters.
Whereas securing medals was the primary goal, Indian athletes additionally set new data on the Video games.
This is an entire record of all Indian data on the Paris 2024 Olympics to this point.
India’s data on the Paris Olympics:
1. Neeraj Chopra provides to his Tokyo 2020 success
Neeraj Chopra produced his profession’s second-best javelin throw at Paris 2024 with an effort of 89.45m however was crushed for gold by Arshad Nadeem, who achieved a brand new Olympic document of 92.97m.
Nonetheless, profitable an Olympic silver medal was no small feat, contemplating it was solely India’s second medal in athletics on the Summer time Video games – each gained by Neeraj.
Chopra grew to become the fifth two-time Olympic medallist from India after including a silver to his Tokyo 2020 gold medal. Norman Pritchard, Sushil Kumar, PV Sindhu and Manu Bhaker are the opposite two-time Olympic medallists from India.
2. Manu Bhaker turns into first Indian lady to win taking pictures medal at Olympics
Manu Bhaker gained the bronze within the ladies’s 10m air pistol occasion at Paris 2024 on July 28 and created historical past by changing into the primary Indian lady to win an Olympic taking pictures medal.
A day earlier than, Manu Bhaker stormed into the ultimate of the ladies’s 10m air pistol, changing into the primary Indian lady since Athens 2004 to qualify for the Olympic finals in taking pictures.
3. Manu Bhaker-Sarabjot Singh win India’s first taking pictures group medal at Olympics
Manu Bhaker and Sarabjot Singh grew to become the primary Indian taking pictures pair to win an Olympic medal in taking pictures at Paris 2024. General, it was India’s sixth Olympic medal in taking pictures.
The Indian taking pictures pair defeated the Republic of Korea’s Oh Ye Jin and Wonho Lee 16-10 within the bronze medal match. Oh Ye Jin had gained the gold medal within the ladies’s 10m air pistol occasion a few days earlier than the match.
Manu Bhaker turns into first athlete from unbiased India to win two medals at one Video games
A medal within the particular person 10m air pistol occasion and the 10m air pistol blended group made Manu Bhaker the primary athlete of unbiased India to win two medals in a single version of the Olympics.
Norman Pritchard, with silvers within the males’s 200m and males’s 200m hurdles at Paris 1900, was the primary athlete to win two medals at one Olympics for India.
4. India’s greatest medals tally in a single sport on the Olympics
Swapnil Kusale gained the bronze medal within the males’s 50m rifle 3 positions on August 1, taking India’s medals tally in taking pictures at Paris 2024 to a few. India had by no means gained three medals in a single sport earlier than at any version of the Video games. The earlier greatest was two in taking pictures on the London 2012 Olympics. This was additionally India’s first-ever Olympic taking pictures medal within the 50m rifle 3 positions.
5. India win back-back Olympic medals in hockey after 52 years
The Indian males’s hockey group got here from a aim right down to beat Spain 2-1 and win the bronze medal on the Paris 2024 Olympics. India, additionally the bronze medallists in hockey at Tokyo, bagged back-to-back Olympic medals in hockey for the primary time in 52 years, since Munich 1972.
The victory on the Yves-du-Manoir Stadium additionally noticed India safe a record-extending thirteenth medal in hockey on the Olympics.
With 10 targets, Harmanpreet Singh was India’s top-scorer at Paris 2024 whereas PR Sreejesh made essential saves all through the competitors earlier than calling it time on his worldwide profession with a bronze medal.
India beat Australia in Olympic hockey for first time since Munich 1972
The Indian males’s hockey group, using on skipper Harmanpreet Singh’s brace, beat Tokyo 2020 silver medallists Australia 3-2 in a bunch recreation on the Paris 2024 Olympics.
This was India’s first victory towards Australia in hockey on the Olympics since Munich 1972. Since then, the 2 groups performed one another seven instances, with India shedding 5 of these video games earlier than their victory in Paris. The win additionally helped India end second of their pool.
6. India’s greatest end in archery on the Olympics
Dhiraj Bommadevara and Ankita Bhakat completed fourth within the blended group occasion to safe India’s greatest end in archery on the Olympics.
Within the bronze medal match towards the USA’s Brady Ellison and Casey Kaufhold, Bommadevara and Bhakat misplaced 6-2 and missed what may have been a historic maiden podium end.
India arrived within the bronze medal match after shedding to South Korea 6-2 within the semi-finals. The Indian blended group acquired the higher of Spain’s Pablo Gonzalez and Elia Canales 5-3 within the quarters after a 5-1 win over Indonesia within the spherical of 16. It was the primary time Indian archery had even reached the semi-finals of any occasion on the Video games.
7. Lakshya Sen breaks new floor for Indian males in Olympic badminton
Lakshya Sen grew to become the primary Indian shuttler to achieve the semi-finals in a males’s badminton occasion on the Olympics. Competing within the males’s singles, he not solely topped his group, beating the likes of Jonatan Christie of Indonesia alongside the best way, however bested compatriot HS Prannoy within the spherical of 16 after which surprised Chou Tien-chen within the quarter-finals.
The Indian shuttler went right down to defending champion Viktor Axelsen of Denmark within the semis after which misplaced to Lee Zii Jia of Malaysia within the bronze medal match.
8. Manika Batra turns into first Indian desk tennis participant to make pre-quarterfinals, Sreeja Akula follows go well with
Manika Batra, seeded 18th within the ladies’s singles occasion, grew to become the primary Indian desk tennis participant to progress to the pre-quarterfinals of the Olympic Video games at Paris 2024 on July 29.
She began her marketing campaign with a 4-1 win over world No. 103 Anna Hursey of Nice Britain within the spherical of 64. She then superior to the pre-quarterfinals after upsetting France’s Prithika Pavade within the spherical of 32.
Manika’s marketing campaign ended after a 4-1 defeat to eighth-seeded Japanese participant Miu Hirano within the pre-quarterfinals. At Tokyo 2020, Manika Batra reached the spherical of 32.
Olympic debutant Sreeja Akula joined Manika within the spherical of 16 on July 30 with a 4-0 win over Sweden’s Christina Kallberg of Sweden within the spherical of 64 and a 4-2 win over Singapore’s Zeng Jian within the spherical of 32. She misplaced to Tokyo 2020 silver medallist Solar Yingsha of China within the spherical of 16 on her twenty sixth birthday.
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