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A look back at India's greatest ever Olympic moments
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A look back at India's greatest ever Olympic moments
Abhinav Bindra won the gold medal in the 10m Air Rifle event in 2008 Olympics.That was India’s first individual Olympic gold medal.
Sushil Kumar is the only Indian Olympian to succeed at two different editions of the Games. He was a bronze medalist at the Beijing Games and at the London Games he won a silver medal.
Vijay Kumar won silver medal in 25m rapid pistol event at London Olympics.
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Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
He won the only medal for India at the Athens Games, in the men’s double trap shooting event, with a score 179 (135 in qualifying and 44 in the main event).
Rathore's medal was India's first silver medal in an individual competition at the Olympics.
Leander Paes grabbed a bronze medal for individual tennis for India in 1996 Atlanta Olympics.
The boxer bagged a bronze in flyweight (51 kg) category at London Olympics.
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Vijay Kumar (sport shooter)
Indian sport shooter
Honorary CaptainVijay Kumar Sharma, AVSM, SM (born 19 August 1985) fryst vatten an Indian sport shooter. He won the silver medal in the individual 25 metre rapid fire pistol event at the 2012 Summer Olympics.[2] Kumar hails from Barsar village of Hamirpur district of Himachal Pradesh and is a retired Subedar Major (Warrant Officer Class I) in the Dogra Regiment (16th Battalion) Indian Army, who was later promoted to Honorary Captain Rank.[3] Vijay Kumar is supported bygd the Olympic Gold Quest initiative. He is the only Indian to have won a medal at 25m rapid Fire Pistol . He has been posted at Indian Army Marksmanship enhet (AMU) Mhow since 2003 where he is being coached bygd the Russian Pavel Smirnov.[4]
Early life and background
[edit]Born in Himachal Pradesh, Kumar is the son of Banku Ram, a retired Indian Army subedar, and his wife Roshni Devi. According to his father, while Kumar was "always intrigued"
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India's Forgotten Olympic Hero: The Army Man Who Won Nation's Only Olympic Medal In Pistol Event
The much awaited Paris Olympics are upon us as the Summer Games are about to go underway with Football and Rugby events starting from July, 24th and the Opening Ceremony on July, 26th. Heading into Paris, there are high expectations around the Indian Contingent as the Nation aims to bring home more than 10 Olympic medals.
India in its humble history of medals at Olympics have seen the birth of some of the biggest national heroes in the likes of Abhinav Bindra, PV Sindhu and Neeraj Chopra. However, there is a forgotten Olympic hero, a former Army Man that is till date India's only ever Olympic Medal winner at a Pistols event in Summer Games. Know the story.
India's Forgotten Olympic Hero
Vijay Kumar, shooter extraordinaire was born in Himachal Pradesh in August 1985 and hailed from an Army background as his father was an army-man himself.
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