norman pritchard won first medal for india in olympics.
norman pritchard won first medal for india in olympics.
who won first medal for india in olympics?
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
competing at the youth olympic games, colombian athletes has won a total of 18 medals, in 9 different sports. weightlifter josé gavino mena won the country's first medal at this competition, at the inaugural edition held in singapore in 2010. as in the senior olympics, weightlifting is the most successful sport for the country with five medals won, although none of them is a golden one; and cycling is also a successful sport, contributing with two gold and one bronze medals. roller speed skating is a very popular sport in colombia, hence the domination of the country in that sport at international competitions. the sport was introduced in the olympic program for the buenos aires games in 2018, and colombian skaters won the two events held at those games. the medals won in tennis and equestrian in 2010 were the first won for the country at olympic competitions. indeed, in tennis the colombians has won a complete set of medals as of 2018. taekwondo practitioner debbie yopasa gómez was the first female medalist for colombia at the youth olympics, winning a bronze medal in nanjing 2014. despite being a tropical country, colombia made its debut at the winter youth olympics in lillehammer 2016. michael poettoz was the sole representative of the country at those games (he later went on to become the first person to be born in colombia to qualify to compete at the senior winter olympics in pyeongchang 2018).tennis player maría osorio is the only colombian athlete to have won two medals for the country at the youth games, and the only one (including senior olympic games) to have won two medals at a single edition of the olympics. diver daniel restrepo won colombia's first medal in diving at olympic competitions.
colombia at the youth olympics