India at the Olympics

India, the NOK, the Indian Olympic Association, was founded in 1927 and recognized in the same year by the IOC since 1920 takes part in the Olympic Summer Games. Already in 1900 took the Indian-born Briton Norman Pritchard in the Games of Paris. While sports historians like Ian Buchanan Pritchard called the Briton, the IOC remained here to view Pritchard as Indians. Since 1964, athletes are sent to Winter Games. 1924 were honored for their participation in the British Mount Everest Expedition in 1922 with the Prix d' olympique alpinisme seven Indian Sherpas.

A total of 810 athletes were, among them 111 women, at. Athletes from India have so far won 26 medals. First medal winner was Norman Pritchard who won two silver medals in 1900 in athletics. The first Olympic victory celebrated the Indian hockey team that won the 1928 tournament. The Indian team won until 1956 all of the following hockey tournaments. First Individual athletes as Olympic champion in 2008 was Abhinav Bindra marksman after his victory with the air rifle. First female medalist weightlifter Karnam Malleswari was 2000, won the bronze medal in the light heavyweight division.

The youngest member of an Indian team in 1980 was the wrestler Mahabir Singh, who went to the start at the age of 15 years. The marksman Bhim Singh in 1976 at the age of 66 years, the oldest participant.

Overview of participants

Summer Games

Winter Games

List of medalists

National Olympic Committee International Olympic Committee 1922 British Mount Everest expedition India national field hockey team 1924 Summer Olympics Dhyan Chand Balbir Singh, Sr. 1960 Summer Olympics 1964 Summer Olympics 1988 Summer Olympics Anju Bobby George Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore Sushil Kumar (wrestler) Neha Ahuja Wrestling at the 1952 Summer Olympics Tennis at the 1996 Summer Olympics Wrestling at the 2008 Summer Olympics Vijender Singh Wrestling at the 2012 Summer Olympics Yogeshwar Dutt Mary Kom Badminton at the 2012 Summer Olympics Algeria at the Olympics Angola at the Olympics Benin at the Olympics Botswana at the Olympics Burkina Faso at the Olympics Burundi at the Olympics DR Congo at the Olympics Eritrea at the Olympics Gabon at the Olympics The Gambia at the Olympics Ghana at the Olympics Guinea at the Olympics Guinea-Bissau at the Olympics Cameroon at the Olympics Cape Verde at the Olympics Kenya at the Olympics Comoros at the Olympics Lesotho at the Olympics Liberia at the Olympics Libya at the Olympics Madagascar at the Olympics Malawi at the Olympics Mali at the Olympics Morocco at the Olympics Mauritania at the Olympics Mauritius at the Olympics Mozambique at the Olympics Namibia at the Olympics Niger at the Olympics Nigeria at the Olympics Congo at the Olympics Rwanda at the Olympics Zambia at the Olympics Senegal at the Olympics Seychelles at the Olympics Sierra Leone at the Olympics Zimbabwe at the Olympics Somalia at the Olympics Sudan at the Olympics Swaziland at the Olympics Tanzania at the Olympics Togo at the Olympics Tunisia at the Olympics Uganda at the Olympics Central African Republic at the Olympics Virgin Islands at the Olympics Antigua and Barbuda at the Olympics Argentina at the Olympics Aruba at the Olympics Bahamas at the Olympics Barbados at the Olympics Belize at the Olympics Bermuda at the Olympics Bolivia at the Olympics Brazil at the Olympics British Virgin Islands at the Olympics Cayman Islands at the Olympics Chile at the Olympics Costa Rica at the Olympics Dominica at the Olympics Dominican Republic at the Olympics Ecuador at the Olympics El Salvador at the Olympics Grenada at the Olympics Guatemala at the Olympics Guyana at the Olympics Haiti at the Olympics Honduras at the Olympics Jamaica at the Olympics Colombia at the Olympics Mexico at the Olympics Nicaragua at the Olympics Panama at the Olympics Paraguay at the Olympics Peru at the Olympics Puerto Rico at the Olympics Saint Kitts and Nevis at the Olympics Saint Vincent and the Grenadines at the Olympics Suriname at the Olympics Trinidad and Tobago at the Olympics Uruguay at the Olympics Venezuela at the Olympics Bahrain at the Olympics Bangladesh at the Olympics Bhutan at the Olympics Brunei at the Olympics Hong Kong at the Olympics Indonesia at the Olympics Iraq at the Olympics Iran at the Olympics Yemen at the Olympics Jordan at the Olympics Cambodia at the Olympics Qatar at the Olympics Kyrgyzstan at the Olympics Kuwait at the Olympics Laos at the Olympics Lebanon at the Olympics Malaysia at the Olympics Maldives at the Olympics Mongolia at the Olympics Myanmar at the Olympics Oman at the Olympics Timor-Leste at the Olympics Pakistan at the Olympics Philippines at the Olympics Saudi Arabia at the Olympics Singapore at the Olympics Sri Lanka at the Olympics Syria at the Olympics Tajikistan at the Olympics Thailand at the Olympics Turkmenistan at the Olympics Uzbekistan at the Olympics United Arab Emirates at the Olympics Vietnam at the Olympics Albania at the Olympics Andorra at the Olympics Armenia at the Olympics Azerbaijan at the Olympics Bosnia and Herzegovina at the Olympics Germany at the Olympics Estonia at the Olympics Finland at the Olympics Macedonia at the Olympics Iceland at the Olympics Latvia at the Olympics Liechtenstein at the Olympics Malta at the Olympics Monaco at the Olympics Portugal at the Olympics San Marino at the Olympics Switzerland at the Olympics Spain at the Olympics Cyprus at the Olympics American Samoa at the Olympics Australia at the Olympics Cook Islands at the Olympics Fiji at the Olympics Guam at the Olympics Kiribati at the Olympics Marshall Islands at the Olympics Nauru at the Olympics New Zealand at the Olympics Palau at the Olympics Papua New Guinea at the Olympics Samoa at the Olympics Solomon Islands at the Olympics Tonga at the Olympics Tuvalu at the Olympics Vanuatu at the Olympics Mixed team at the Olympics Rhodesia at the Olympics Soviet Union at the Olympics

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