With Sushil Kumarwinning a silver in the men's 66 kg freestylewresting event, India has much to cheer about. We look at our past winners at the Games...For live updates, commentary and latest pictures from London Olympics, click here.
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Indian wrestler Sushil Kumar made the country proud by winning a silver medal on the closing day of the London olympics 2012. Kumar's silver made him the first individual athlete from India to win back-to-back medals at the Olympics and ensured the country's sixth medal at the London Games, its best ever performance in the sporting extravaganza. His first medal came at the Beijing 2008 Games, where he bagged a bronze.
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Yogeshwar Dutt won India's fifth medal and fourth bronze at London Olympics in Men's 60kg freestyle category wrestling, making a spectacular comeback in the middle of the match to clinch the title.
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She may have lost the bout to Nicola Adams, but boxer Mary Kom won our hearts. She won a bronze medal in the 51 kg boxing event
Saina Nehwal is only the second Indian woman after weightlifter Karnam Malleswari to win an Olympic medal. Saina , 22, was fortunate to win the bronze when her Chinese rival Wang Xin, who was leading 21-18, 1-0, pulled out with a leg injury.
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After the nation's hopes for gold crashed earlier in the day with Saina Nehwal losing to the world number one in the semi-finals of the badminton event, a silver lining emerged in the form of Vijay Kumar who won second place in the 25m rapid pistol fire event. The 26-year-old, who hails from Himachal Pradesh, is the son of an ex-armyman
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On July 30, Gagan Narang opened the medal tally for India at the London 2012 Olympics by scoring bronze in the 10m Air Rifle event.
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India's Vijender Singh won a bronze in the Men's 75 kg category in Beijing Summer Olympics in 2008. Vijender defeated Carlos Gongora of Ecuador 9-4 in the quaterfinals which guaranteed him a bronze medal, the first ever Olympic medal for an Indian boxer. In Janaury 2010, he was awarded the Padma Shri for his outstanding contribution in sports.
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Abhinav Bindra in 2008 made history by becoming the first Indian to win a gold medal in the Olympic Games. He won a gold in shooting in Men's 10m air rifle event. The current World champion received the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award in 2001 and a Padma Bhushan in 2009.
Colonel Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore won a silver medal in shooting at the 2004 Athens Olympics in the Men's double trap event. He was the first Indian after Independence to win individual silver. He was given the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award in 2004-05.
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Leander Paes won a bronze medal at the Summer Olympics at Atlanta in 1996 in the Men's Singles event. Soon after his win at the Olympics, Paes got the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award in 1996-97. In 2010, Paes joined the Board of directors of Olympic Gold Quest, a foundation to support talented athletes in their Olympics quest.
In the 1952 Summer Olympics held at Helsinki, Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadav won 3 bronze medals in Wrestling (Men's freestyle bantam weight). Fifty-six years later, Sushil Kumar won a bronze medal in wrestling at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. He won the medal in the Men's 66kg freestyle event. He defeated Leonid Spiridonov of Kazakhastan to win his bronze medal. He received the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award in 2009 for his feat.
India's Field Hockey team has won a total of 8 gold medals over the years, the first being in 1928 in Amsterdam. In Field hockey, India has also won one silver medal and three bronze medals.
India participated in the Olympics for the first time in 1900. Its lone athlete Norman Pritchard won two medals in athletics - one silver in Men's 200 metres and another in Men's 200 metre hurdles in Paris in 1900.
