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Friday 29 April 2022

Tokyo Olympic medals won by india

Olympic Games the largest sporting celebration in terms of the number of sports on the event in world, with the spirit of friendly competition in multi-sports event. Olympic Games is Organized every four years, they include a summer and a winter edition. The first edition of the modern Olympic Games was staged in Athens, Greece, in 1896, while the first winter edition ( India less participants) was held in Chamonix, France, in 1924. Since 1994, the Olympic Games have alternated between a summer and winter edition every two years within the four-year period of each Olympiad. official website of Olympic of India.   

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 India Recent Medals won in last four Summer Olympic games are given below. 

i) 2008 Beijing Olympic, China :- 1 Gold, 0 silver and 2 Bronze Medals. 

ii) 2012 London Olympic, England :- 0 Gold, 2 silver and 4 Bronze Medals.  

iii) 2016 Rio de janeiro Olympic, Brazil :- 0 Gold, 1 silver and 1 Bronze Medals.   

 iii) 2020-21 Tokyo Olympic, japan :- 1 Gold, 2 silver and 4 Bronze Medals. 

India Recent  no Medals won in last four winter Olympic  games


Table of Contents 

1. History of India medals in Olympic Game.

2. Medals Tally of world country in Recent summer Olympic Game.

3. Tokyo Olympic (Japan) India medals winners with Game.

4. MCQ questions from Olympic for who is 1st position medals winner.

 

 1. History of India medals in Olympic Game.

India have won 35 medals i.e. 10 golds, 9 silvers and 16 bronzes in Summer Olympic games, while no medal won in winter Olympic games so far. those 35 Medals comes from different Sports / events i.e. 12 medals from field hockey most medals for India, 7 medals in wrestling, 4 medals in shooting, 3 medals in each games Athletics, badminton and boxing, 2 medals in weightlifting and 1 medals in tennis.   

 

2. Medals Tally of world country in Recent summer Olympic Game.

 

2020-21 Tokyo Olympic, japan

Highest 113 medals won by USA in Tokyo Olympics game 2021 where India at 48th position with 7 medals but highest medals won in Tokyo japan.  

Country

RANK

GOLD MEDALS

SILVER MEDALS

BRONZE MEDALS

TOTAL MEDALS

INDIA

48

1

2

4

7

United States

1

39

41

33

113

CHINA

2

38

32

18

88

JAPAN

3

27

14

17

58

Great Britain

4

22

21

22

65

Russia Olympics committee

5

20

28

23

71

 

 CWG-2022 INDIA MEDAL TALLY, BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND (UK)

2016 Rio de janeiro Olympic, Brazil

Highest 121 medals won by USA in Rio de janeiro Olympic, Brazil Olympics game 2016  where India at 67th position with only 2 medals.

Country

RANK

GOLD MEDALS

SILVER MEDALS

BRONZE MEDALS

TOTAL MEDALS

INDIA

67

0

1

1

2

United States

1

46

37

38

121

Great Britain

2

27

23

17

67

CHINA

3

26

18

26

70

Russian Federation

4

19

18

19

56

Germany

5

17

10

15

42

Japan

6

12

8

21

41

France

7

10

18

14

42

 

3. Tokyo Olympic(Japan) India medals winners with Game.

 

The medal was India’s seventh at Tokyo 2020 -2021 making it their best-ever haul at a single edition of the Olympics games. India has won 7 medals i.e. 1 Gold, 2 silver and 4 Bronze Medals 2020-21 Tokyo Olympic, Japan. Details are given bellow. 

i)    Mirabai chanu

Weightlifter  Mirabai chanu opened India’s medal account at the Tokyo 2020-21 Olympic with a silver in the women’s 49kg categories- her first medal at the Olympics. It was India’s second weightlifting Olympic medal, after Karnam Malleswari’s bronze at Sydney Olympic 2000.

ii)  Lovlina Borgohain – Bronze medal - women’s welterweight (64-69kg categories)

On her Games debut, Lovlina Borgohain won a bronze medal at Tokyo 2020 after losing in the semi-finals to top seed Busenaz Surmeneli of Turkey in the women’s 69kg categories. 

iii) PV Sindhu – Bronze medal - women’s singles badminton. Badminton queen P.V Sindhu became the first Indian woman and only the second Indian athlete - after Sushil Kumar - to win two individual Olympic medals after independent.

iv)Ravi Kumar Dahiya – Silver medal - men’s 57kg freestyle wrestling Ravi Kumar Dahiya lost to twice world champion Zavur Uguev of ROC (Russia Olympics committee) in the final of the men’s 57kg freestyle wrestling, thus ending up with a silver medal.

V) Indian hockey team - Bronze medal - men’s hockey team

 Indian hockey team complete 12 medals in Olympics ( 8 gold, 1 silver and 3 bronze). After a 41-year wait, the Indian men’s hockey team finally have an Olympic medal since the gold at the 1980 Moscow Olympics. After being 3-1 down at one point, India made a big comeback to beat Germany 5-4 and claim the bronze medal.

vi)  Bajrang Punia - Bronze medal - men’s 65kg wrestling

Wrestler Bajrang Punia became the third Indian debutant to win a medal at Tokyo 2020. Two-time Asian champion Bajrang Punia beat Kazakhstan’s Daulet Niyazbekov, a World Championships silver-medallist, in the men’s 65kg freestyle categories wrestling playoff to claim the bronze medal.

vi)  Neeraj Chopra - Gold medal - men’s javelin throw

Neeraj Chopra became India’s second individual Olympics champion - after Abhinav Bindra - with his men’s javelin throw gold at Tokyo 2020. It was India’s first track-and-field medal at any Olympic Games. Neeraj Chopra javelin threw 87.58 meter to clinch the gold medal. 

 

 4. MCQ questions from Olympic for who is 1st position medals winner.

 

1. who is first Indian won First Individual Medal in Olympics game.ओलंपिक खेल में पहला व्यक्तिगत पदक जीतने वाले पहले भारतीय कौन हैं?





ANSWER= (A) Norman Pritchard
Explain:-in Paris Olympics 1900 game :- Athletics won Silver medal.

 

2. who is first Indian won First Individual Medal after Independence in Olympics game.ओलंपिक खेल में स्वतंत्रता के बाद पहला व्यक्तिगत पदक जीतने वाले पहले भारतीय कौन हैं





ANSWER= (B) K. D. Jadhav
Explain:-in 1952 Helsinki, Wrestling,Bronze MEDAL.

 

3. which game / individual events for India won First Gold Medal in Olympics game.भारत के लिए किस खेल / व्यक्तिगत स्पर्धाओं ने ओलंपिक खेल में पहला स्वर्ण पदक जीता?





ANSWER= (B) Hockey India
Explain:-1928 Amsterdam Olympics Field hockey Gold by team India.

 

4. Which sports/individual events won the first gold medal in Olympic Games for India after independent ?.किस खेल/व्यक्तिगत स्पर्धाओं ने स्वतंत्रता के बाद भारत के लिए ओलंपिक खेलों में पहला स्वर्ण पदक जीता?





ANSWER= (D) Field Hockey team India
Explain:-1948 London Olympics Field hockey won Gold medal by team India.

 

5. who has won the first individual gold medal in Olympic Games for India ?.भारत के लिए ओलंपिक खेलों में पहला व्यक्तिगत स्वर्ण पदक किसने जीता है?





ANSWER= (C) Abhinav Bindra, shooting
Explain:-2008 Beijing Olympics won Gold medal in shooting.

 

6. who has won the first individual multi-medalist in Olympic Games for India.भारत के लिए ओलंपिक खेलों में पहला व्यक्तिगत बहु-पदक विजेता किसने जीता है?





ANSWER= (C) Norman Pritchard, Athletics
Explain:-in Paris Olympics 1900 game :- Athletics won Silver medal..

 

7. who has won the first individual multi-medalist in Olympic Games for India after independence.जिन्होंने स्वतंत्रता के बाद भारत के लिए ओलंपिक खेलों में पहला व्यक्तिगत बहु-पदक जीता है।





ANSWER= (A) Sushil Kumar, wrestling
Explain:-in 2008 BEIJING Olympics BRONZE, in 2012 LONDON Olympics SILVER.

 

8. who has won the first female individual multi-medalist in Olympic Games for India after independence.? जिन्होंने स्वतंत्रता के बाद भारत के लिए ओलंपिक खेलों में पहली महिला व्यक्तिगत बहु-पदक विजेता जीती है।





ANSWER= (D) P. V. Sindhu, badminton
Explain:-in 2016 Rio de janeiro, brazil olympics SILVER , in 2020 Tokyo, japan Olympics BRONZE.

 

9. who has won the first female medallist in Olympic Games for India.? जिन्होंने भारत के लिए ओलंपिक खेलों में पहली महिला पदक विजेता जीती है।





ANSWER= (A) Karnam Malleswari, Weightlifting
Explain:-in 2000 SYDNEY Olympics BRONZE Medal.

 

10. which country has won the most Olympic gold medals in field hockey or which nation has the most Olympic gold medal in hockey with 8 medals or who has the distinction of maximum Olympic hockey gold medals ? किस देश ने फील्ड हॉकी में सबसे अधिक ओलंपिक स्वर्ण पदक जीते हैं या किस देश ने 8 पदक के साथ हॉकी में सबसे अधिक ओलंपिक स्वर्ण पदक जीता है या जिसे अधिकतम ओलंपिक हॉकी स्वर्ण पदक का गौरव प्राप्त है





ANSWER= (d) India. 8 gold medals
Explain:-1. Amsterdam Olympics 1928, 2. Los Angeles Olympics 1932, 3. Berlin Olympics 1936, 4. London Olympics 1948, 5. Helsinki Olympics 1952, 6. Melbourne Olympics 1956, 7. Tokyo Olympics 1964, 8. Moscow Olympics 1980,

 

11. How many medal win by Indian field hockey men's team in Olympics game.ओलंपिक खेल में भारतीय फील्ड हॉकी पुरुष टीम ने कितने पदक जीते।





ANSWER= (d) 12, 8 gold, 1 SILVER and 3 Bronze medal
Explain:-1.Amsterdam Olympics 1928- Gold, 2. Los Angeles Olympics 1932 - Gold, 3. Berlin Olympics 1936 - Gold, 4. London Olympics 1948 - Gold, 5. Helsinki Olympics 1952 - Gold, 6. Melbourne Olympics 1956 - Gold, 7. Tokyo Olympics 1964 - Gold , 8. Moscow Olympics 1980 - Gold, 9. Rome Olympics 1960 - Silver, 10. Mexico City Olympics 1968 - Bronze, 11. Munich Olympics 1972 - Bronze, 12. Tokyo Olympics 2020 - Bronze,