norman pritchard won the first silver medal for an individual event at the olympics for india.
norman pritchard won the first silver medal for an individual event at the olympics for india.
who won the first silver medal for an individual event at the olympics for india?
norman pritchard
on 11 august 2008, abhinav bindra won the gold medal in the men's 10 m air rifle shooting event. in doing so, he won the first ever individual gold medal for india, and the first medal in any event for india at the beijing games. the previous highest individual achievements for india were two silver medals won by norman pritchard, an englishman born in india, at the 1900 paris olympics and one silver medal won by the 2008 flagbearer rajyavardhan rathore at the 2004 athens olympics. sushil kumar won the second ever wrestling medal for india, the first being the bronze earned by khashaba dadasaheb jadhav in the 1952 helsinki olympics. vijender singh won a bronze medal in the middleweight boxing category, having lost in the semifinals. this was india's first-ever olympic medal in boxing.
india at the 2008 summer olympics
at the 2013 european artistic gymnastics championships, hambüchen qualified to the horizontal bar individual event final but placed 6th after a fall. in july, he compete at the 2013 summer universiade where the german team placed 4th. hambüchen won the silver medal in the all-around behind russian nikolai kuksenkov, beating 2013 european champion david belyavskiy. he also won silver in the floor individual event final behind japan's ryohei kato. he competed at the 2013 world artistic gymnastics championships where he won the bronze medal in the all-around individual event final. he also finished in 7th place in the floor and won a silver medal in the horizontal bar individual event finals, once again in a close battle behind zonderland.
fabian hambüchen