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India's Olympic medal winners

August 11, 2008 12:36 IST

Abhinav Bindra gave India its first individual Olympic gold medal, and ninth overall, when he won the 10 metres air rifle event at the Beijing Olympics on Monday morning.

Before his feat India had won eight gold medals in hockey, six of them at successive Games, three silver medals (two in athletics and one in hockey) and five bronze medals from the Olympics.

On Monday, Bindra was fourth after qualifying but had a brilliant final round and even hit a near perfect 10.8 on his last visit to pull in front of Henri Hakkinen of Finland, who dropped to bronze with a poor final shot of 9.7.

A look at India's medal winners at the Olympics:

Medal Name Olympics Sport Event
Silver Norman Pritchard 1900 Paris Athletics Men's 200 metres
Silver Norman Pritchard 1900 Paris Athletics Men's 200 metres hurdles
Gold National team 1928 Amsterdam Field hockey Men's competition
Gold National team 1932 Los Angeles Field hockey Men's competition
Gold National team 1936 Berlin Field hockey Men's competition
Gold National team 1948 London Field hockey Men's competition
Gold National team 1952 Helsinki Field hockey Men's competition
Bronze Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav 1952 Helsinki Wrestling Men's freestyle bantamweight
Gold National team 1956 Melbourne Field hockey Men's competition
Silver National team 1960 Rome Field hockey Men's competition
Gold National team 1964 Tokyo Field hockey Men's competition
Bronze National team 1968 Mexico Field hockey Men's competition
Bronze National team 1972 Munich Field hockey Men's competition
Gold National team 1980 Moscow Field hockey Men's competition
Bronze Leander Paes 1996 Atlanta Tennis Men's singles
Bronze Karnam Malleswari 2000 Sydney Weightlifting Women's 69 kg
Silver Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore 2004 Athens Shooting Men's double trap
Gold Abhinav Bindra 2008 Beijing Shooting Men's 10m Air Rifle