3 Players Who Won 2 Medals for India in Olympics: The bugle for Paris Olympics (Paris Olympics 2024) has been blown. After 7 days, the great Kumbh of sports will start in Paris, the capital of France. The Indian team will also reach to participate in this Olympics. India is going to participate in the Olympics for the 26th time and for the first time Indian players participated in these games in the year 1900. This time fewer players from the Indian team are going to participate in the Paris Olympics (117) as compared to Tokyo Olympics (121). India has won a total of 35 medals in Olympic history so far, out of which there have been three players who have managed to win medals twice.

3 Indian players who won medals twice in Olympics

pv sindu

All eyes will be on India's badminton star PV Sindhu in Paris Olympics too. This will be PV Sindhu's fourth Olympics. She missed out on winning a medal in London 2012 but after that she won two consecutive Olympic medals. She won bronze and silver medals respectively in Rio 2016 and Tokyo Olympics 2020. She will have a chance to score a hat-trick of Olympic medals in this year's games.

Sushil Kumar

Sushil Kumar has won 2 Olympic medals in wrestling for India. Sushil Kumar created history by winning 2 consecutive medals in Beijing 2008 and London 2012. He became the first player to win two medals for the country since India's independence. Sushil Kumar won the bronze medal in Beijing and the silver medal in the London Olympics. However, now he is living his life behind bars. He is currently in jail as he has been charged in cases related to the murder of junior wrestler Sagar Dhankar.

Norman Pritchard

Before India's independence, Norman Pritchard won two medals in the 200 meter race and hurdles in the same edition of the first Olympics held in 1900. Being an Indian player, he represented the Asian Nation in the Olympic Games held in Paris during the year 1900 and won two silver medals.