For a country of over a billion, getting on the medals tally at the Olympics has been a constant dream every four years.
While there was some success in that regard in the two Olympics that were held on the last decade, there is still a long way to go.
India’s contingent had 83 members for the 2012 London Olympics, the most for India at the games. That number was bettered for the 2016 Rio Olympics, when India’s contingent was 118-members strong.
We had six medals – two silvers and four bronze – to show for our efforts in 2012 and two medals – one silver and one bronze – in 2016. While Vijay Kumar (shooting) and Sushil Kumar (wrestling) won silver medals in 2012, Saina Nehwal (badminton), Mary Kom (boxing), Gagan Narang (shooting) and Yogeshwar Dutt (wrestling) won bronze medals. PV Sindhu’s silver in badminton and Sakshi Malik’s bronze in wrestling completed our haul in 2016.
Having won a bronze in the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Sushil Kumar became India’s first multiple individual Olympics medalist when he won his silver in 2012.
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