Indian players are given brilliant performances in the Olympic Games with each coming season. They are continuously stealing the limelight with their performances on the biggest sporting stage and are creating history. India participated in the Olympics for the first time in the year 1900 and since then, India has shown their potential and skillset in 24 Olympics. India has a total of 35 medals in 24 Olympics, which includes 10 gold, 9 silver, and 16 bronze. They have won the most medals in the game of hockey.
India has a total of 12 medals in hockey including 8 gold, one silver, and three bronze. India has a golden history in the Olympics, but there are only three players who have made themselves immortal in the history of the Indian Olympics. In the 124-year history of the Indian Olympics, there are only three athletes who have won two Olympic medals in individual sports.
Norman Gilbert Pritchard
The first medal for India in the Olympics was won by Norman Gilbert Pritchard. The British-Indian athlete was the first player in Indian history to win two Olympic medals. He won silver medals in both men's 200-meter and men's 200-meter hurdles during the 1900 Paris Olympics. Pritchard was of British origin but was born in Kolkata and used to represent India.
Sushil Kumar
Wrestler Sushil Kumar created history in the 2012 London Olympics as he became the second player of India after Pritchard and the first player of Indian origin to win two Olympic medals. He won silver in men's 66 kg wrestling. Earlier, he had won the bronze medal in the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
PV Sindhu
After Pritchard and Sushil Kumar, PV Sindhu is the only Indian athlete with two Olympic medals in front of her name. Sindhu is also the first Indian female player to win two medals in the Olympics. In the 2016 Rio Olympics, Sindhu won the silver medal in women's singles badminton. After this, she won the bronze medal in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
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