From July 26 to August 11, 117 Indian athletes—including five reserve athletes—will compete in the Paris 2024 Olympics in an attempt to win medals and achieve sporting immortality.
At the Paris 2024 Olympics, India will be interested in 69 medal events spread over 16 sports, including archery, athletics, badminton, boxing, equestrian, golf, hockey, judo, rowing, sailing, shooting, swimming, table tennis, and tennis.
Neeraj Chopra, one of the 29-member Indian athletics delegation traveling to France, made history in Tokyo 2020 by winning the gold in the men’s javelin throw. He will be hoping to add to India’s medal haul at the Paris 2024 Olympics.
Olympic medallists from India’s 2024 delegation to Paris include boxer Lovlina Borgohain, weightlifter Mirabai Chanu, badminton star PV Sindhu, and a few players from the men’s hockey team captained by Harmanpreet Singh.
Avinash Sable, Antim Panghal, Rohan Bopanna, Chirag Shetty-Satwiksairak Rankireddy, Vinesh Phogat, and Aman Sehrawat are among the athletes who are keen to increase India’s medal total at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.
At the Paris 2024 Olympics, Manu Bhaker took home the first medal for India. She won a bronze medal and made history as the first female Indian to win an Olympic shooting medal. After winning a mixed team 10m air pistol bronze with Sarabjot Singh, she made Olympic history by becoming the first Indian to win two medals in a single event.
India has so far taken home 37 medals from the Olympics. It’s interesting to note that India’s account was opened in Paris 1900 by Norman Pritchard’s dual silver.
KD Jadhav was the first individual athlete from independent India to appear on the list of Olympic medal winners, having won a bronze in wrestling in Helsinki in 1952. Karnam Malleswari, an Olympic medallist in weightlifting, made history in Sydney in 2000.
Before Neeraj’s javelin victory in Tokyo 2020, rifle shooter Abhinav Bindra was the only Indian to win an Olympic gold medal in an individual event in more than ten years, having done so in Beijing in 2008.
The sport of men’s hockey has contributed the most medals to India’s Olympic total, with 12 total, including 8 gold. Wrestling has come in second with 7 medals.
India will try to surpass the total in Paris 2024. The country returned from Tokyo 2020 with its greatest-ever haul of seven medals, including one gold.
India has already won two medals at the Paris 2024 Olympics, both of them bronze.
Paris 2024 Olympics: India’s medal winners
| No. | Athlete | Event | Sport | Medal |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Manu Bhaker | Women’s 10m air pistol | Shooting | Bronze |
| 2 | Manu Bhaker-Sarabjot Singh | Mixed team 10m air pistol | Shooting | Bronze |
Medal table for the 2024 Olympics in Paris
| Rank | Country | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japan | 6 | 2 | 4 | 12 |
| 2 | France | 5 | 8 | 3 | 16 |
| 3 | China | 5 | 5 | 2 | 12 |
| 3 | Australia | 5 | 4 | 0 | 9 |
| 5 | South Korea | 5 | 3 | 1 | 9 |
| =25 | INDIA | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
