Paris Olympics: Paris Olympics 2024 is going to start from 26th July. This time around 10,500 players from all over the world are ready to show their talent. In the last Tokyo Olympics, India had won a total of 7 medals, this time Indian athletes will enter the field with the intention of increasing the number of medals. This time the Indian team includes 117 players, but do you know when India participated in these games for the first time and who won the first medal?
Actually, India participated in the Olympic Games for the first time in the year 1900. This year the Olympics were held in Paris. At that time India was not independent, so British India participated. That season, the only player from India in these games was Norman Pritchard, who won two medals. He won silver medals in 200 meter sprint and 200 meter hurdles.
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β‘οΈ India's Olympic journey started in 1900 with only one athlete participating Norman Pritchard.
β‘οΈ This was the first Olympic participation by an Asian country.
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This record is registered in the name of Norman Pritchard
Norman Pritchard is the athlete who won the first medal for India in the Olympics. With this, India became the first Asian country to win an Olympic medal. The special thing was that Pritchard became the first Indian (British-Indian) athlete to win more than one Olympic medal for the country.
So far 35 medals, 10 gold
Around 1218 athletes have participated in the Olympic Games from 1900 to Tokyo Olympics 2020. India has won a total of 35 medals in these games, including 10 gold medals, 9 silver medals and 16 bronze medals. The highest number of medals came in Tokyo Olympics 2020, that season Indian athletes won a total of 7 medals.
