India at the Olympics
IOC code	IND
NOC	Indian Olympic Association
Website	olympic.ind.in
Medals	Gold 9 Silver 8 Bronze 13 Total 30
Summer appearances
1900 1904–1912 1920 1924 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016 2020 2024
Winter appearances
1964 1968 1972–1984 1988 1992 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2026
Other related appearances
Independent Olympic Participants (2014)

India first participated at the Olympic Games in 1900, with a lone athlete (Norman Pritchard) winning two medals – both silver – in athletics and became the first Asian nation to win an Olympic medal.^[1]

The nation first sent a team to the Summer Olympic Games in 1920, and has participated in every Summer Games since then. India has also competed at several Winter Olympic Games beginning in 1964.

Indian athletes have won 30 medals, all at the Summer Games. For a period of time, India national field hockey team was dominant in Olympic competition, winning eleven medals in twelve Olympics between 1928 and 1980. The run included 8 gold medals total and six successive gold medals from 1928–1956.

India sent its first athlete to the Summer Olympics for the 1900 Games, but an Indian national team did not compete at the Summer Olympics until 1920. Ahead of the 1920 Games, Sir Dorabji Tata and Governor of Bombay George Lloyd helped India secure representation at the International Olympic Committee, enabling it to participate in the Games (see India at the 1920 Olympic Games). India then sent a team to the 1920 Olympics, comprising four athletes, two wrestlers, and managers Sohrab Bhoot and A. H. A. Fyzee. The Indian Olympic movement was then established during the 1920s: some founders of this movement were Dorabji Tata, A.G. Noehren (Madras College of Physical Education), H.C. Buck (Madras College of Physical Education), Moinul Haq (Bihar sports associations), S. Bhoot (Bombay Olympic Association), A.S. Bhagwat (Deccan Gymkhana), and Guru Dutt Sondhi (Punjab Olympic Association); Lt.Col H.L.O. Garrett (from the Government College Lahore and Punjab Olympic Association) and Sagnik Poddar (of St. Stephen's School) helped organise some early national games; and prominent patrons included Maharajas and royal princes Bhupinder Singh of Patiala, Ranjitsinhji of Nawanagar, the Maharaja of Kapurthala, and the Maharaja of Burdwan.

In 1923, a provisional All India Olympic Committee was formed, and in February 1924, the All India Olympic Games (that later became the National Games of India) were held to select a team for the Paris Summer Olympics. The Indian delegation at the Paris Olympics comprised seven athletes, seven tennis players and team manager Harry Buck.

In 1927, the provisional Indian Olympic Committee formally became the Indian Olympic Association (IOA); its main tasks were to promote the development of sports in India, choose host cities for the national games, and send teams selected from the national games to the Summer Olympics. Thus, at the 1928 national games, it selected seven athletes to represent India at the next Summer Olympics, with Sondhi as manager. By this time, the Indian Hockey Federation (IHF) had also been established and it sent a hockey team to the Summer Olympics. The national hockey team and additional sportspersons were similarly sent to the 1932 Games (four athletes and one swimmer) and 1936 (four athletes, three wrestlers, one Burmese weight-lifter), along with three officials headed by team manager Sondhi. The Indian field hockey team dominated the Olympics from 1928 to 1936 winning an unprecedented three titles. In the 1928 Summer Olympics final India defeated Netherlands 3 - 0 .^[2] In 1932 Summer Olympics India defeated USA 24 - 1, the largest margin of victory in Olympic history.^[3] In 1936 Summer Olympics final they defeated Germany 8 - 1 , the largest margin of victory ever in an Olympic final.^[4]

From 1948 onward, because of the IOA's wider outreach, India began sending delegations of over 50 sportspersons representing several sport, each selected by its sports federation, to the Summer Olympics. The delegation was headed by a chef-de-mission. The Indian field hockey team won gold medal at the 1948 Summer Olympics by defeating Great Britain in the final. It was the first gold medal for India as an independent nation.^[5].

In the 1952 Summer Olympics wrestler K.D. Jadhav won the first individual medal for independent India. The Indian field hockey team continued their dominance by winning the sixth straight title by defeating Pakistan in the final in 1956 Summer Olympics.

In the 1960 Summer Olympics the field hockey team lost the final and had to settle for silver medal. ^[6] Though the team bounced back by winning gold at the 1964 Summer Olympics.^[7] But went on to win only bronze medals in the next two Olympics.^[8][9] In 1976 Summer Olympics India went home empty handed, the first time since 1924.

Indian hockey team won their Olympic record 8th and last title till date at the 1980 Summer Olympics.^[10] Though India had to return empty handed in the next three Summer Olympics. At the 1996 Summer Olympics held in Atlanta tennis player Leander Paes won a bronze medal at the Men's Singles in Tennis ending a barren run of 16 years without a medal at the Olympics and also the first individual medal since 1952.^[11]

In the 2000 Sydney Olympics two-time World Championship gold medalist Karnam Malleswari won a bronze medal at the Women's 69 kg weightlifting category. It was the first ever Olympic medal won by an Indian woman.^[12]

At the 2004 Athens Olympics star shooter Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore won silver medal in Men's double trap shooting.^[13]

At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Abhinav Bindra won gold in the Men's 10 metre air rifle event becoming the first Indian to win an individual gold medal at the Olympic Games. Vijender Singh got the country's first medal in boxing with his bronze medal in Middleweight category.

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.^[13] 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.

At the 2016 Summer Olympics, a record number of 118 athletes competed. Sakshi Malik became the first Indian woman wrestler to win an Olympic medal with her bronze medal finish in Women's freestyle 58 kg category.^[14] Shuttler P. V. Sindhu became the first Indian woman to win a silver medal in Olympics and also the youngest Indian Olympic medalist.^[15]

This list provides a comparative compendium of all the participants/competitors of India in the summer Olympic games.

Games	Sports	Men	Women	Total	Change	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total	Change
1900	1	1	0	1	—N/a	0	2	0	2	—N/a
1920	2	6	0	6	+5	0	0	0	0	−2
1924	2	12	2	14	+8	0	0	0	0	0
1928	2	21	0	21	+7	1	0	0	1	+1
1932	3	20	0	20	−1	1	0	0	1	0
1936	4	27	0	27	+7	1	0	0	1	0
1948	10	79	0	79	+52	1	0	0	1	0
1952	11	60	4	64	−15	1	0	1	2	+1
1956	8	58	1	59	−5	1	0	0	1	−1
1960	6	45	0	45	−14	0	1	0	1	0
1964	8	52	1	53	+8	1	0	0	1	0
1968	5	25	0	25	−28	0	0	1	1	0
1972	7	40	1	41	+16	0	0	1	1	0
1976	2	20	0	20	−21	0	0	0	0	−1
1980	4	58	18	76	+56	1	0	0	1	+1
1984	5	38	10	48	−28	0	0	0	0	−1
1988	10	39	7	46	−2	0	0	0	0	0
1992	12	44	9	53	+7	0	0	0	0	0
1996	13	45	4	49	−4	0	0	1	1	+1
2000	13	46	19	65	+16	0	0	1	1	0
2004	14	48	25	73	+8	0	1	0	1	0
2008	12	31	25	56	−17	1	0	2	3	+2
2012	13	60	23	83	+27	0	2	4	6	+3
2016	15	63	54	117	+34	0	1	1	2	−4
2020	18	68	52	127	+10	0	1	1	2	TBA

This list provides a comparative compendium of all the participants/competitors of India in the winter Olympic games.

Games	Sports	Men	Women	Total	Change	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total	Change
1964	1	1	0	1	—N/a	0	0	0	0	—N/a
1968	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
1988	1	2	1	3	+2	0	0	0	0	0
1992	1	2	0	2	−1	0	0	0	0	0
1998	1	1	0	1	−1	0	0	0	0	0
2002	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
2006	3	3	1	4	+3	0	0	0	0	0
2010	3	3	0	3	−1	0	0	0	0	0
2014	3	3	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0
2018	2	2	0	2	−1	0	0	0	0	0

Medals by Summer Games Games Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Total Rank 1896 Athens Did not participate 1900 Paris 1 0 2 0 2 17 1904 St. Louis Did not participate 1908 London 1912 Stockholm 1920 Antwerp 6 0 0 0 0 —N/a 1924 Paris 14 0 0 0 0 —N/a 1928 Amsterdam 21 1 0 0 1 23 1932 Los Angeles 20 1 0 0 1 19 1936 Berlin 27 1 0 0 1 20 1948 London 79 1 0 0 1 22 1952 Helsinki 64 1 0 1 2 26 1956 Melbourne 59 1 0 0 1 24 1960 Rome 45 0 1 0 1 32 1964 Tokyo 53 1 0 0 1 24 1968 Mexico City 25 0 0 1 1 42 1972 Munich 41 0 0 1 1 43 1976 Montreal 20 0 0 0 0 —N/a 1980 Moscow 76 1 0 0 1 23 1984 Los Angeles 48 0 0 0 0 —N/a 1988 Seoul 46 0 0 0 0 —N/a 1992 Barcelona 53 0 0 0 0 —N/a 1996 Atlanta 49 0 0 1 1 71 2000 Sydney 65 0 0 1 1 71 2004 Athens 73 0 1 0 1 65 2008 Beijing 56 1 0 2 3 50 2012 London 83 0 2 4 6 55 2016 Rio de Janeiro 117 0 1 1 2 67 2020 Tokyo 120 0 1 1 2 TBD 2024 Paris future Event 2028 Los Angeles 2032 Brisbane Total 9 8 12 29 53 Medals by Winter Games Games Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Total Rank 1924 Chamonix Did not participate 1928 St. Moritz 1932 Lake Placid 1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1948 St. Moritz 1952 Oslo 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo 1960 Squaw Valley 1964 Innsbruck 1 0 0 0 0 —N/a 1968 Grenoble 1 0 0 0 0 —N/a 1972 Sapporo Did not participate 1976 Innsbruck 1980 Lake Placid 1984 Sarajevo 1988 Calgary 3 0 0 0 0 —N/a 1992 Albertville 1 0 0 0 0 —N/a 1994 Lillehammer Did not participate 1998 Nagano 1 0 0 0 0 —N/a 2002 Salt Lake City 1 0 0 0 0 —N/a 2006 Turin 4 0 0 0 0 —N/a 2010 Vancouver 3 0 0 0 0 —N/a 2014 Sochi 3 0 0 0 0 —N/a 2018 Pyeongchang 2 0 0 0 0 —N/a 2022 Beijing future Event 2026 Milano Cortina Total 0 0 0 0 —N/a Medals by Sports Summer   Leading in that Sport Sport Gold Silver Bronze Total  Field hockey 8 1 2 11  Shooting 1 2 1 4  Athletics 0 2 0 2  Wrestling 0 1 4 5  Badminton 0 1 2 3  Boxing 0 0 2 2  Weightlifting 0 1 1 2  Tennis 0 0 1 1 Total 9 8 12 29 Winter   Leading in that Sport Sport Gold Silver Bronze Total —N/a —N/a —N/a —N/a —N/a Total 0 0 0 0 List of medalists Medal Name/Team Games Sport Event Date Silver Norman Pritchard 1900 Paris Athletics Men's 200 metres 22 July 1900 Silver Norman Pritchard 1900 Paris Athletics Men's 200 metre hurdles 16 July 1900 Gold National team Richard Allen Dhyan Chand Michael Gateley William Goodsir-Cullen Leslie Hammond Feroze Khan George Marthins Rex Norris Broome Pinniger Michael Rocque Frederic Seaman Ali Shaukat Jaipal Singh Sayed Yusuf Kher Singh Gill 1928 Amsterdam Field hockey Men's competition 26 May 1928 Gold National team Richard Allen Muhammad Aslam Lal Bokhari Frank Brewin Richard Carr Dhyan Chand Leslie Hammond Arthur Hind Sayed Jaffar Masud Minhas Broome Pinniger Gurmit Singh Kullar Roop Singh William Sullivan Carlyle Tapsell 1932 Los Angeles Field hockey Men's competition 11 August 1932 Gold National team Richard Allen Dhyan Chand Ali Dara Lionel Emmett Peter Fernandes Joseph Galibardy Earnest Goodsir-Cullen Mohammed Hussain Sayed Jaffar Ahmed Khan Ahsan Khan Mirza Masood Cyril Michie Baboo Nimal Joseph Phillips Shabban Shahab-ud-Din G.S. Garewal Roop Singh Carlyle Tapsell 1936 Berlin Field hockey Men's competition 15 August 1936 Gold National team Leslie Claudius Keshav Dutt Walter D'Souza Lawrie Fernandes Ranganathan Francis Gerry Glackan Akhtar Hussain Patrick Jansen Amir Kumar Kishan Lal Leo Pinto Jaswant Singh Rajput Latif-ur-Rehman Reginald Rodrigues Balbir Singh Sr. Randhir Singh Gentle Grahanandan Singh K. D. Singh Trilochan Singh Maxie Vaz Jaswant Rai 1948 London Field hockey Men's competition 12 August 1948 Gold National team K. D. Singh Leslie Claudius Meldric Daluz Keshav Dutt Chinadorai Deshmutu Ranganathan Francis Raghbir Lal Govind Perumal Muniswamy Rajgopal Balbir Singh Sr. Randhir Singh Gentle C. S. Dubey Udham Singh Dharam Singh Grahanandan Singh Chaman Singh Gurung 1952 Helsinki Field hockey Men's competition 24 July 1952 Bronze Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav 1952 Helsinki Wrestling Men's freestyle Bantamweight 23 July 1952 Gold National team Leslie Claudius Ranganathan Francis Haripal Kaushik Amir Kumar Raghbir Lal Shankar Lakshman O. P. Malhotra Govind Perumal Amit Singh Bakshi Raghbir Singh Bhola Balbir Singh Dosanjh Hardyal Singh Garchey Randhir Singh Gentle Balkishan Singh Grewal Gurdev Singh Kullar Udham Singh Kullar Bakshish Singh Charles Stephen 1956 Melbourne Field hockey Men's competition 6 December 1956 Silver National team Joseph Antic Leslie Claudius Jaman Lal Sharma Mohinder Lal Shankar Lakshman John Peter Govind Sawant Raghbir Singh Bhola Udham Singh Kullar Charanjit Singh Jaswant Singh Joginder Singh Prithipal Singh 1960 Rome Field hockey Men's competition 9 September 1960 Gold National team Haripal Kaushik Mohinder Lal Shankar Lakshman Bandu Patil John Peter Ali Sayed Udham Singh Kullar Charanjit Singh Darshan Singh Dharam Singh Gurbux Singh Harbinder Singh Jagjit Singh Joginder Singh Prithipal Singh Balbir Singh Kullar Rajendran Christie 1964 Tokyo Field hockey Men's competition 23 October 1964 Bronze National team Rajendra Christy Krishnamurty Perumal John "V.J." Peter Inam-ur Rahman Munir Sait Ajitpal Singh Balbir Singh Kullar Balbir Singh Kular Balbir Singh Gurbux Singh Harbinder Singh Harmik Singh Inder "Gogi" Singh Prithipal Singh Tarsem Singh Jagjit Singh 1968 Mexico City Field hockey Men's competition 26 October 1968 Bronze National team B. P. Govinda Charles Cornelius Manuel Frederick Michael Kindo V.J. Philips Ashok Kumar M. P. Ganesh Krishnamurty Perumal Ajitpal Singh Harbinder Singh Harcharan Singh Harmik Singh Kulwant Singh Mukhbain Singh Virinder Singh 1972 Munich Field hockey Men's competition 10 September 1972 Gold National team Vasudevan Baskaran Bir Bahadur Chettri Sylvanus Dung Dung Mervyn Fernandis Zafar Iqbal Maharaj Krishan Kaushik Charanjit Kumar Sommayya Maneypande Allan Schofield Mohamed Shahid Davinder Singh Gurmail Singh Amarjit Singh Rana Rajinder Singh Ravinder Pal Singh Surinder Singh Sodhi 1980 Moscow Field hockey Men's competition 29 July 1980 Bronze Leander Paes 1996 Atlanta Tennis Men's singles 3 August 1996 Bronze Karnam Malleswari 2000 Sydney Weightlifting Women's 69 kg 19 September 2000 Silver Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore 2004 Athens Shooting Men's double trap 17 August 2004 Gold Abhinav Bindra 2008 Beijing Shooting Men's 10 m air rifle 11 August 2008 Bronze Vijender Singh 2008 Beijing Boxing Middleweight 20 August 2008 Bronze Sushil Kumar 2008 Beijing Wrestling Men's freestyle 66 kg 21 August 2008 Silver Vijay Kumar 2012 London Shooting Men's 25 m rapid fire pistol 3 August 2012 Silver Sushil Kumar 2012 London Wrestling Men's freestyle 66 kg 12 August 2012 Bronze Saina Nehwal 2012 London Badminton Women's singles 4 August 2012 Bronze Mary Kom 2012 London Boxing Women's flyweight 8 August 2012 Bronze Gagan Narang 2012 London Shooting Men's 10m air rifle 30 July 2012 Bronze Yogeshwar Dutt 2012 London Wrestling Men's freestyle 60 kg 11 August 2012 Silver P. V. Sindhu 2016 Rio de Janeiro Badminton Women's singles 19 August 2016 Bronze Sakshi Malik 2016 Rio de Janeiro Wrestling Women's freestyle 58 kg 17 August 2016 Silver Saikhom Mirabai Chanu 2020 Tokyo Weightlifting Women's 49 kg 24 July 2021 Bronze P.V. Sindhu 2020 Tokyo Badminton Women's singles 1 August 2021 Multiple Medalists Team Sports Athlete Sport Games Gold Silver Bronze Total Leslie Claudius  Field hockey 1948–1960 3 1 0 4 Udham Singh  Field hockey 1952–1964 3 1 0 4 Richard James Allen  Field hockey 1928–1936 3 0 0 3 Dhyan Chand  Field hockey 1928–1936 3 0 0 3 Ranganathan Francis  Field hockey 1948–1956 3 0 0 3 Randhir Singh Gentle  Field hockey 1948–1956 3 0 0 3 Balbir Singh Sr.  Field hockey 1948–1956 3 0 0 3 Shankar Lakshman  Field hockey 1956–1964 2 1 0 3 Haripal Kaushik  Field hockey 1956–1964 2 1 0 3 John Peter  Field hockey 1960–1968 1 1 1 3 Prithipal Singh  Field hockey 1960–1968 1 1 1 3 Harbinder Singh  Field hockey 1964–1972 1 0 2 3 Carlyle Tapsell  Field hockey 1932–1936 2 0 0 2 Roop Singh  Field hockey 1932–1936 2 0 0 2 Jaswant Rai  Field hockey 1948–1952 2 0 0 2 Govind Perumal  Field hockey 1952–1956 2 0 0 2 Amir Kumar  Field hockey 1948–1956 2 0 0 2 Jaswant Singh Rajput  Field hockey 1948–1952 2 0 0 2 Leslie Hammond  Field hockey 1928–1932 2 0 0 2 Broome Pinniger  Field hockey 1928–1932 2 0 0 2 Sayed Jaffar  Field hockey 1932–1936 2 0 0 2 Keshav Dutt  Field hockey 1948–1952 2 0 0 2 Grahanandan Singh  Field hockey 1948–1952 2 0 0 2 K. D. Singh  Field hockey 1948–1952 2 0 0 2 Raghbir Lal  Field hockey 1952–1956 2 0 0 2 Joginder Singh  Field hockey 1960–1964 1 1 0 2 Raghbir Singh Bhola  Field hockey 1956–1960 1 1 0 2 Mohinder Lal  Field hockey 1960–1964 1 1 0 2 Balkrishan Singh  Field hockey 1956–1960 1 1 0 2 Rajendran Christie  Field hockey 1964–1968 1 0 1 2 Balbir Singh Kullar  Field hockey 1964–1968 1 0 1 2 Jagjit Singh  Field hockey 1964–1968 1 0 1 2 Gurbux Singh  Field hockey 1964–1968 1 0 1 2 Krishnamurthy Perumal  Field hockey 1968–1972 0 0 2 2 Ajitpal Singh  Field hockey 1968–1972 0 0 2 2 Harmik Singh  Field hockey 1968–1972 0 0 2 2 Individual Sports Athlete Sport Games Gold Silver Bronze Total Norman Pritchard  Athletics 1900 0 2 0 2 Sushil Kumar  Wrestling 2004–2012 0 1 1 2 P.V. 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