Success at the Olympic Games wasn’t easy to come by for the modern Indian sports fan. If one grew up with stories of the glorious golden da...
Success at the Olympic Games wasn’t easy to come by for the modern Indian sports fan. If one grew up with stories of the glorious golden days in hockey (India were unbeaten in the first six Olympic Games in the sport, winning six out of six gold medals), the more recent times were filled with more heartbreaks than success stories. After 1980, India waited till 1996 for a medal. There was again a solitary bronze in 2000, while the colour changed to silver in 2004 but the count didn’t.
Then, Beijing 2008 offered one of the greatest moments in Indian sporting history when Abhinav Bindra won the first-ever individual Olympic Games gold medal for India. Also for the first time, India finished the Games with more than two medals.
The improvement continued four years later in London, a campaign that gave Indian sports fans an unprecedented six medals to celebrate and a fair few historic firsts.
India at the Olympic Games
| Year | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2012 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| 2008 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 2004 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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