Indian Medals In Olympics: When and Who Got It!!

India has earned 35 medals so far in 25 appearance at Olympics. 10 Gold, 10 Silver and 15 Bronze medals is India’s tally after Tokyo 2021. Indian Hockey team has contributed 12 and Wrestling contributed 7. Here is the complete list of medal winners from India.

Indian Performance in Every Olympics
History of All Sports Played at Olympics by India
Indian Athletes in: 2012 Olympics: 2016, 2020

Among 29 Summer Olympics (1900-2020), India did not participate in 1904, 1908 and 1912.

Empty Hands
1920, 1924, 1976, 1984, 1988, and 1992 are the 5 Olympics when Indians failed to earn a single medal and returned empty handed.

Medals by Sport

• 12 Hockey
• 7 Wrestling
• 4 Shooting
• 3 Athletics, Badminton, Boxing
• 2 Weightlifting
• 1 Tennis

20 Individuals and National Men’s Hockey team have contributed to the medal tally. In 21 events of 8 sports the medals are earned. Sushil Kumar and PV Sindhu are the only Indians to have won two Olympic medals in two different Games. Norman Pritchard, who is disputed as British although IOC counts the medal on India’s name, is the only individual representing India to have won 2 medals in the same game. 

PV Sindhu (2016) and Mirabai Chanu (2020) are the only women to win a Silver medal.

Indian Hockey team failed to win a medal in 1976. After 1980s Hockey Gold medal, India waited for 16 years to earn another medal. Since 1996 medal by Leander Paes every year India is winning at least one medal, all in individual events.

Before 2012 best medal effort, 2008 was India’s best with maximum 3 medals in one Olympics. In 1900, 1952 and 2016, India won 2 medals each.

In 2012, the contingent has 81 athletes. But many of them have been ranked in top 5 at world level. The investment of Rs 250 crore has yielded in 6 medals.

IN 2016, the contingent was jumbo, the biggest in size ever. But, could fetch just 2 medals.

In 2021 (2020 Olympics), India sent the biggest contingent of 120 members and won maximum medals – total 7, 1 more than 2012 Olympics.

Medal Tally
G=Gold, S=Silver, B=Bronze

Year	Name	Sports	Event	Medal
1900	Norman Pritchard	Athletics	Men’s 200 metres	Silver
1900	Norman Pritchard	Athletics	Men’s 200 metres hurdles	Silver
1928	Men’s Team	Field Hockey	Men’s	Gold
1932	Men’s Team	Field Hockey	Men’s	Gold
1936	Men’s Team	Field Hockey	Men’s	Gold
1948	Men’s Team	Field Hockey	Men’s	Gold
1952	Men’s Team	Field Hockey	Men’s	Gold
1952	Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav	Wrestling	Men’s freestyle bantamweight	Bronze
1956	Men’s Team	Field Hockey	Men’s	Gold
1960	Men’s Team	Field Hockey	Men’s	Silver
1964	Men’s Team	Field Hockey	Men’s	Gold
1968	Men’s Team	Field Hockey	Men’s	Bronze
1972	Men’s Team	Field Hockey	Men’s	Bronze
1980	Men’s Team	Field Hockey	Men’s	Gold
1996	Leander Paes	Tennis	Men’s Singles	Bronze
2000	Karnam Malleswari	Weightlifting	Women’s 69 kg	Bronze
2004	Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore	Shooting	Men’s double trap	Silver
2008	Abhinav Bindra	Shooting	Men’s 10m Air Rifle	Gold
2008	Sushil Kumar	Wrestling	Men’s 66 kg Freestyle	Bronze
2008	Vijender Singh	Boxing	Men’s 75 kg	Bronze
2012	Gagan Narang	Shooting	10 m air rifle	Bronze
2012	Vijay Kumar	Shooting	25 m rapid fire pistol	Silver
2012	Saina Nehwal	Badminton	Women’s Singles	Bronze
2012	Mary Kom	Boxing	Women’s 51Kg	Bronze
2012	Yogeshwar Dutt	Wrestling	Men’s 60Kg	Silver
2012	Sushil Kumar	Wrestling	Men’s 66 kg Freestyle	Silver
2016	PV Sindhu	Badminton	Women’s Singles	Silver
2016	Sakshi Malik	Wrestling	Women’s 58 kg Freestyle	Bronze
2020	Saikhom Mirabai Chanu	Weightlifting	Women’s 49 kg	Silver
2020	PV Sindhu	Badminton	Women’s Singles	Bronze
2020	Lovlina Borgohain	Boxing	Welterweight	Bronze
2020	Men’s Team	Field Hockey	Men’s Team	Bronze
2020	Ravi Kumar Dahiya	Wrestling	Men’s 57 Kg	Silver
2020	Bajranj Punia	Wrestling	Men’s 65 Kg	Bronze
2020	Neeraj Chopra	Athletics	Men’s Javelin Throw	Gold