Indians in Olympics race
The 2012 London Olympics saw the best performance of India with 6 medals. Will they surpass this in Rio?
Rio Olympics 2016 begins on August 5 and will go on till 21. More than 10,500 athletes from 206 National Olympic Committees (NOCs), including debutants Kosovo and South Sudan, will compete for 306 sets of medals, in 28 Olympic sports. These sporting events will take place at 33 venues in the host city and at five each in the cities of São Paulo (Brazil's largest city), Belo Horizonte, Salvador, Brasília (Brazil's capital), and Manaus.
India first participated at the Olympic Games in 1900 with a lone athlete (Norman Pritchard) winning two medals — both silver — in athletics. The nation first sent a team to the Summer Olympic Games in 1920, and has participated in every Summer Games since then. Indian athletes have won a total of 26 medals, all at the Summer Games. For a period of time, India national field hockey team was dominant in Olympic competitions, winning eleven medals in twelve Olympics between 1928 and 1980. The run included a total of 8 gold medals, including six successive gold medals from 1928–1956.
The 2012 London Olympics saw the best performance of India with 6 medals — 2 silver and 4 bronze, followed by Beijing in 2008, where India bagged its maiden individual gold.
The following are the categories in which India will be participating in Rio Olympics.
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