India’s Tokyo 2020 Olympics Medal Winners
India has won its first individual Olympic gold medal and second silver, in just four days at India’s Tokyo 2020 Medal winners. Neeraj Chopra became only the second Indian individual Olympic champion after defeating Switzerland’s Nico Haelbling in a thrilling javelin event. PV Sindhu won her second Olympic medal while the men’s hockey team captured India’s first-ever Olympics medals, 41 years after their previous win at Munich in 1972.
Mirabai Chanu
India’s weightlifter Mirabai Chanu opened the country’s medal account at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics with a silver in the women’s 49kg category, her first Olympic medal. This is India’s second Olympic weightlifting medal; Karnam Malleswari won bronze for India at the Sydney 2000 Olympics.
Lovlina Borgohain
Lovlina Borgohain took home a bronze medal and the 64-69kg weight class in the women’s welterweight. On her Games debut, Lovlina Borgohain won a bronze medal at Tokyo 2020 after losing in the semi-finals to top seed Busenaz Surmeneli of Turkey in the women’s 69kg. After defeating Chinese Taipei’s Nien-Chin Chen in the quarter-finals, she was assured of a medal.
PV Sindhu
PV Sindhu is one of four women’s singles badminton athletes to take a medal at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games in Brazil. Sindhu became the first Indian woman to win two individual Olympic medals and only the second Indian athlete – after Sushil Kumar – to do so. Sindhu beat China’s He Bing Jiao in Women’s Singles, 21-13, 21-15 for bronze. India now has three confirmed medals of Tokyo 2020 with one more than their total from Rio 2016.
Ravi Kumar Dahiya
Ravi Kumar Dahiya – Silver medalist in the 57kg freestyle wrestling category. India medals in wrestling again. Ravi Kumar Dahiya lost to twice world champion Zavur Uguev of the Russia-Olympic Caucus [ROC] in the 57kg freestyle wrestling, earning a silver medal for India. The 23-year-old had made his Olympic debut this year and is the only second Indian wrestler to take home any medal from an Olympics after Sushil Kumar in London 2012.
Ravi Kumar Dahiya beat Nurislam Sanayev of Kazakhstan in the semis. When trailing 2-9, Dahiya won a couple of points before pinning and defeating Sanayev with a stirring comeback for an Olympic medal.
Hockey Team from India
Indian men’s hockey team wins a Bronze medal. India beat Germany 5-4 to get their third Olympic bronze medal at India’s Tokyo 2020 Medal winners in a 41-year wait. The Indian men had an especially impressive comeback during the game after they were 3-1 down and secured their 12th Olympic medal overall.
Bajrang Punia
Bajrang Punia won bronze in the men’s 65 kg wrestling. Wrestler Bajrang Punia became the third Indian wrestler to win a medal at Tokyo 2020. After defeating Kazakhstan’s Daulet Niyazbekov in his 65 kg opponent, Bajrang Punia won bronze in men’s freestyle wrestling. This is India’s sixth medal of the Olympics, equaling their best performance ever as a country.
Neeraj Chopra
While most people know Neeraj Chopra as the Gold Medalist at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in India, he is also a very accomplished javelin thrower. Neeraj Chopra made history by becoming India’s second individual Olympics champion – following Abhinav Bindra’s gold medal in Beijing 2008. His historic win at India’s Tokyo 2020 Medal winner was India’s first track-and-field medal at any Olympic Games and their best Olympics haul ever! Neeraj Chopra threw 87.58 meters to take the gold in a competition that only two people cleared 80 meters, both of whom were from Europe and led by Frenchman Sebastian Holmboe Blank with his world record 88.68m throw.
