New Delhi [India], December 30 (ANI): Team India completed their Paris Olympics marketing campaign with six medals which included one silver and 5 bronze medals. Even after sending a complete of 117 athletes to compete in several occasions on the marquee occasion, Team India didn’t bag a single gold.
India completed within the 71st place on the Paris Olympics medals tally, whereas, the United States of America resulted in prime place with a complete of 126 medals.
The spotlight of the just lately concluded Paris Olympics was the rise of shooter Manu Bhaker. The 22-year-old grew to become the primary Indian athlete within the post-independence period to win two medals in a single version of the Olympics. This distinction was beforehand held by Norman Pritchard on the Paris 1900 Games.
Manu Bhaker opened India’s medal tally within the Olympics after she secured third place within the girls’s particular person 10m air pistol occasion, changing into the first-ever lady shooter to win an Olympic medal for India.
Following that, Sarabjot Singh and Bhaker gained the bronze medal within the 10m air pistol (combined workforce) occasion, which was India’s first-ever taking pictures workforce medal.
In her closing occasion, Bhaker narrowly missed out on the historic grand treble and completed fourth within the girls’s 25m pistol taking pictures occasion. She missed out on the chance to turn into the primary Indian to win three medals on the Olympics.
Swapnil Kusale clinched a bronze medal for India within the 50m Rifle 3 Positions Men’s Final after ending in third place with an combination of 451.4. He grew to become the primary Indian shooter to win a medal within the males’s 50m rifle 3P occasion.
The ‘golden boy’ shined for India but once more on the Paris Olympics. Neeraj Chopra fell wanting retaining his gold medal within the males’s javelin throw on the ongoing marquee occasion securing silver with a greatest throw of 89.45 meters. Pakistan’s Arshad Nadeem gained gold with a throw of 92.97 meters, setting a brand new Olympic report and surpassing Denmark’s Andreas Thorkildsen’s mark from Beijing 2008. Grenada’s Anderson Peters secured bronze with a throw of 88.54 meters.
Meanwhile, the Indian males’s hockey workforce etched their names into the historical past ebook after securing back-to-back bronze medals on the Olympics for the primary time in 52 years.
Led by Harmanpreet Singh, the Indian males’s hockey workforce gained back-to-back bronze medals for the primary time in 52 years on the Olympics following their 2-1 conquer Spain.
India gained consecutive bronze hockey medals for the primary time in 52 years, because the 1972 Munich Games.
At the top stage of the Paris Olympics on August 9, Indian younger wrestler Aman Sehrawat defeated Puerto Rico’s Darian Cruz to clinch the bronze medal within the 57 kg freestyle wrestling occasion on the 2024 Summer Games.
Aman introduced India’s first wrestling medal on the Paris 2024 in his debut Olympic Games. He grew to become the seventh Indian wrestler to medal on the Olympics.
Despite these achievements, India confronted vital disappointments in Paris 2024. The nation narrowly missed out on six potential medals, with athletes ending fourth of their occasions, together with Lakshya Sen, Mirabai Chanu, and Manu Bhaker, who was near securing a 3rd medal. Also, the combined workforce archery duo of Dhiraj Bommadevara and Ankita Bhakat couldn’t win a medal for India, dropping the bronze medal match. But the archers made historical past by changing into the primary archers from India to achieve an Olympic medal match.
Some different setbacks for India included, the star pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy-Chirag Shetty lacking out on a medal regardless of being in high-quality kind, crashing out within the semifinals of males’s doubles badminton. Also, PV Sindhu didn’t make it a hat-trick of medals at three successive Olympics.
The veteran archer and multi-time Olympian Deepika Kumari didn’t return house with a medal regardless of an immense degree of expertise and success at non-Olympic occasions. Boxers Nikhat Zareen and Lovlina Borgohain, the latter being Tokyo 2020 bronze medalists, couldn’t get the nation some highly-anticipated medals.
Vinesh Phogat’s disqualification simply earlier than a historic closing of ladies’s 50 kg additionally contributed to the nation’s woes.
There was Indian curiosity in a complete of 69 medal occasions throughout 16 sports activities on the 2024 Summer Games: archery, athletics, badminton, boxing, equestrian, golf, hockey, judo, rowing, crusing, taking pictures, swimming, desk tennis and tennis.
India has gained 41 medals on the Olympics thus far. Interestingly, it was Norman Pritchard’s twin silver that opened India’s account within the 1900 Olympics, which have been additionally held in Paris. KD Jadhav was the primary particular person athlete from unbiased India to get on the Olympic medal winners checklist. He gained a bronze medal in wrestling on the 1952 Olympics, held in Helsinki. Weightlifter Karnam Malleswari grew to become the primary lady to win an Olympic medal in Sydney in 2000.
India’s best-ever Olympic efficiency got here at Tokyo 2020, the place the nation gained seven medals, together with one gold. (ANI)