Indian athletes will enter the Paris Olympics high on hopes, having produced a spectacular performance in the last edition. Four years back, India finished 48th on the medal tally of the Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Including Neeraj Chopra’s historic gold, the Indian contingent bagged seven medals at the event. India will now aim to better their last year’s record this time in the French capital. The Paris Olympics will get underway on July 26 and will run till August 11. A total of 32 events are part of this year’s edition and 206 countries will fight for 329 gold medals across different sporting disciplines.
With a few days left for the commencement of the Paris Olympics, let us revisit India’s performance in the last edition.
India sent a strong contingent featuring 124 athletes to the Tokyo Olympics. Fans kept their faith in Neeraj Chopra, who headed to the mega event after winning a Commonwealth Games gold in 2018. The Haryana-born athlete did match the expectations and finished atop the podium in the men’s javelin throw. He clinched the gold medal with an 87.58m throw. It was India’s first track and field medal at the Olympics. Chopra was also the second Indian athlete to win an individual gold after Abhinav Bindra.
Mirabai Chanu added the first medal to India’s tally in Tokyo by securing a silver. It was India’s second medal in weightlifting after Karnam Malleswari, who won bronze in 2000. Chanu became the runner-up in the women’s 49kg category to bag her first-ever Olympic medal.
Lovlina Borgohain made the country proud on her Olympics debut in Tokyo. She finished third in the 69kg category after losing to Turkey’s Busenaz Surmeneli in the semi-finals. Borgohain overcame China’s Nien-Chin Chen in the quarter-finals.
Like Borgohain, Ravi Kumar Dahiya also tasted success in his first Olympic campaign last time. He reached the final of the men’s 57kg freestyle and lost to two-time world champion Zavur Uguev to earn a silver medal. He beat Kazakhstan’s Nurislam Sanayev in the semi-finals.
The Indian men’s hockey team defeated Germany to win a bronze medal in Tokyo. It was India’s first medal in hockey after the 1980 Moscow Olympics where they became the champions.
PV Sindhu won her second individual Olympic medal in Tokyo by claiming bronze in women’s singles. The ace Indian shuttler defeated China’s He Bingjiao in the third-place match. Bajrang Punia was another Indian debutant to claim a medal at the Tokyo Olympics. He defeated Kazakh wrestler Daulet Niyazbekov in the 65kg freestyle playoffs to bag the bronze medal.
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