leander paes won the first individual olympic medal for india.
leander paes won the first individual olympic medal for india.
who won the first individual olympic medal for india?
leander paes
the 2012 summer olympics saw an 83-member indian contingent participating in the games and setting a new best for the country with a total of six medals. wrestler sushil kumar became the first indian with multiple individual olympic medals (bronze at the 2008 beijing olympics and silver at the 2012 summer olympics) since norman pritchard in 1900. saina nehwal won bronze medal in badminton in women's singles getting the country's first olympic medal in badminton. pugilist mary kom became the first indian woman to win a medal in boxing with her bronze medal finish in women's flyweight.
india at the olympics
bullet::::- khashaba jadhav (15 january 1926 – 14 august 1984) born in a very poor farming family at goleshwar tal. karad, the only individual olympic medal winner for india until 2000. he won india's first individual olympic medal by winning the bronze medal on 23 july 1952, in the 1952 helsinki olympic games for wrestling in bantamweight, which is the unbeaten record for india in wrestling until today. in 1993, maharashtra state awarded him the shiv chhattrapati award posthumously. in 2001, the central government also awarded him the arjuna award posthumously.
karad