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India finished 71st in the medal’s tally with one silver and five bronze at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
(From left) Manu Bhaker, Neeraj Chopra and Vinesh Phogat (Agencies)
India’s campaign at the 2024 Paris Olympics was historic with a total of six medals, including one silver and five bronze. The six medals meant India finished 71st in the final medal tally. The 33rd Olympiad was marked by a host of historic firsts for India which included new records being set but there were a few heartbreaks too.
India’s Medalists at 2024 Paris Olympics
- Neeraj Chopra: Silver; Men’s Javelin Throw (Athletics)
- Indian Men’s Hockey Team: Bronze
- Manu Bhaker: Bronze; Women’s 10m Air Pistol (Shooting)
- Swapnil Kusale: bronze; men’s 50m rifle 3 positions (Shooting)
- Manu Bhaker and Sarabjot Singh: Bronze; 10m Air Pistol Mixed Team (Shooting)
- Aman Sehrawat: Bronze – Men’s Freestyle 57kg (Wrestling)
The History Makers
Manu Bhaker etched her name in the history books by winning two bronze medals in Paris. She became the first Indian woman to win a shooting medal at the Olympics as well as the first Indian athlete to win multiple medals in a single edition at the Summer Games post-Independence. When Manu qualified for the women’s 10m air pistol final, she became the first Indian woman to do so in a shooting event since Athens 2004. She went on to clinch bronze the next day.
Manu then partnered Sarabjot Singh to win bronze in the team event.
Swapnil Kusale clinched bronze in the men’s 50m rifle 3 positions, India’s first-ever in the event, and also took the country’s medal count to three. Shooting thus became India’s most successful event (in terms of medals won) at the Summer Games.
The Indian men’s hockey team clinched bronze for back-to-back Olympic medals in hockey after 52 years – since the Munich 1972 Games. The Hamrnapreet Singh-led side added India’s 13th Olympic medal in hockey after beating Spain 2-1 in the third-place play-off.
Neeraj Chopra bagged silver to add to his gold from Tokyo and became the fourth two-time Olympic individual medallist from India after Sushil Kumar, PV Sindhu and Manu Bhaker.
Aman Sehrawat became the youngest-ever individual Olympic medallist from India at 21 years and 24 days as he clinched bronze in the 57kg men’s freestyle wrestling event.
So Close Yet So Far
Bhaker narrowly missed out on securing a third medal as she finished fourth in the women’s 25m air pistol event. Shooters Arjun Babuta, Anantjeet Singh Naruka and Maheshwari Chauhan also missed out on medals, finishing fourth in the men’s 10m air pistol, the mixed skeet event, and the mixed-team event respectively.
Archers Dhiraj Bommadevara and Ankita Bhakat finished fourth finish in the mixed-team event.
In the men’s badminton, Lakshya Sen made history by becoming the first Indian shuttler to reach the semifinals. He lost to eventual gold medalist Viktor Axelsen, and then to Malaysia’s Lee Zii Jia in the bronze medal match.
Mirabai Chanu, silver medallist in Tokyo, was unable to secure a medal in the women’s 49kg category. She finished fourth.
While 117 athletes from 16 sports including archery, athletics, badminton, boxing, equestrian, golf, hockey, judo, rowing, sailing, shooting, swimming, wrestling, table tennis, and tennis, made their mark, India fell short of its best medal tally at the Olympics, which was seven medals (one gold, two silver, and four bronze) achieved in Tokyo 2020.
A seventh medal seemed imminent when Vinesh Phogat reached the final of the women’s 50kg category, becoming the first Indian woman to qualify for a gold-medal bout. However, her journey took an unexpected turn as she was disqualified for being overweight by just 100 grams after failing her second weigh-in before the final. This led to her announcement of retirement from the sport and even though she challenged the decision at the Court of Arbitration for Sports, her petition was dismissed.
India’s Overall Performance
Archery
- Dhiraj Bommadevaraen (men’s individual): Bommadevaraen lost his Round of 32 match against Canada’s Eric Peters (6-5).
- Tarundeep Rai (men’s individual): Tarundeep lost his Round of 64 match against Great Britain’s Tom Hall.
- Pravin Jadhav (men’s individual): Chinese archer Kao Wenchao beat Jadhav 6-0 in the round of 64.
- Dhiraj, Tarundeep, and Praveen (men’s team): India lost 2-6 against Turkey in the quarterfinal.
- Deepika Kumari (women’s individual): Deepika went down 4-6 against South Korea’s Nam Su-hyeon in the quarterfinal.
- Ankita Bhakat (women’s individual): Poland’s Wioleta Myszor beat Ankita 6-4 in the round of 64.
- Bhajan Kaur (women’s individual): Bhajan lost her Round of 16 match against Diananda Choirunisa of India.
- Deepika, Ankita, and Bhajan (women’s team): India lost 0-6 against the Netherlands in the quarterfinals.
- Dhiraj-Anikta (mixed team): The Indian mixed team of Dhiraj Bommadevaraen and Ankita Bhakat finished 4th after losing the bronze medal match against the USA.
Athletics
- Neeraj Chopra (men’s javelin throw): Neeraj won a silver medal after touching a distance of 89.45 m in his second throw.
- Avinash Sable (men’s 3000m steeplechase): Sable finished 11th in the final with a timing of 8:14.18.
- Akshdeep Singh (men’s 20km race walk): Akshdeep pulled out of the race at around the 6km mark and did not finish (DNF).
- Priyanka Goswami (women’s 20km race walk): Goswami clocked 1:39:55 to finish 41st from a field of 45.
- Vikas Singh (men’s 20km race walk): Vikash crossed the finish line in 1:22:36 for 30th place.
- Paramjeet Bisht (men’s 20km race walk): Paramjeet clocked 1:23:48 to come 37th from a field of 49.
- Parul Chaudhary (women’s 3000m steeplechase, women’s 5000m): Parul clocked a season’s best time in the qualification run but failed to make it to the 3000m steeplechase final. In the 5000-meter race, she failed to make the final after finishing 14th in her heat.
- Kishore Jena (men’s javelin throw): Jena finished ninth in his qualification round and failed to secure a place in the final.
- Priyanka Goswami/Suraj Panwar (marathon race walk mixed relay): Suraj and Priyanka did not finish the race and quit at the 33.4 km mark.
- Muhammed Anas, Muhammed Ajmal, Amoj Jacob, Santhosh Tamilarasan, and Rajesh Ramesh (men’s 4×400 m relay): The Indian team clocked a season’s best time of 3:00.58 to finish fourth in their heat but missed out on a place in the final.
- Jyothika Sri Dandi, Subha Venkatesan, Vithya Ramraj, and Poovamma MR (women’s 4x400m relay): The Indian team finished eighth and last in their heat with a time of 3:32.51.
- Kiran Pahal (women’s 400m): Kiran finished seventh in heat 1 and then sixth in the repechage round.
- Jyothi Yarraji (women’s 100m hurdles): Yarraji failed to advance to the semi-final after finishing fourth in her repechage round.
- Sarvesh Kushare (men’s high jump): Kushare finished 25th overall in the qualification round and failed to qualify for the final.
- Annu Rani (women’s javelin throw): Annu failed to progress beyond the qualification round. She finished 15th in her group and 26th overall.
- Tajinderpal Singh Toor (men’s shot put): Tajinderpal finishes 15th in the qualification round.
- Abdulla Aboobacker (men’s triple jump): Aboobacker finished 13th in qualification after a disappointing performance of 16.49 m.
- Praveel Chithravel (men’s triple jump): Chithravel finished 12th in qualification and failed to reach the final.
- Jeswin Aldrin (men’s long jump): Aldrin recorded a best attempt of 7.61 m in the qualification to finish 13th in his heat.
- Ankita Dhyani (women’s 5000m): Ankita ended up in last place in heat one and overall 40th.
Badminton
- Lakshya Sen (men’s singles): Lakshya Sen finished in fourth place after losing the bronze medal match against Lee Zii Jia of Malaysia.
- HS Prannoy (men’s singles): HS Prannoy went down by 12-21, 6-21, against Lakshya Sen in the Round of 16 match.
- PV Sindhu (women’s singles): PV Sindhu suffered a 19-21, 14-21 defeat against China’s He Bingjiao in the Round of 16 match.
- Satwiksairaj Rankireddy/Chirag Shetty (men’s doubles): Chirag-Satwik suffered a 21-13, 14-21, 16-21 defeat in the quarterfinal match against Aaron Chia and Soh Wooi Yik of Malaysia.
- Ashwini Ponnappa/Tanisha Crasto (women’s doubles): Ashwini-Tanisha finished last in Group C after losing all three matches.
Boxing
- Nikhat Zareen (women’s 50 kg): Nikhat lost her Round of 16 match (0-5) against China’s Wu Yu.
- Preeti Pawar (women’s 54 kg): Preeti went down (2-3) against Colombia’s Yeni Arias in the round of 16.
- Jaismine Lamboria (women’s 57 kg): Jaismine lost (0-5) her round of 32 match against Philippines boxer Nesthy Petecio.
- Lovlina Borgohain (women’s 75 kg): China’s Li Qian beat Lovlina 4-1 in the quarterfinal.
- Amit Panghal (men’s 51 kg): Amit lost 1-4 against Zambian boxer Patrick Chinyemba in the Round of 16 match.
- Nishant Dev (men’s 71 kg): Nishant lost his quarterfinal match against Mexico’s Marco Verde.
Equestrian
Anush Agarwalla: Anush Agarwalla was eliminated in the first stage of the equestrian event. He competed in the individual dressage category and finished ninth in his group with a score of 66.444, which was not enough to advance to the medal round.
Golf
- Shubhankar Sharma: India’s number one pro-golfer, Shubhankar Sharma, achieved the best-ever finish for an Indian in men’s Olympics golf. Shubhankar finished 40th overall with -1 under 283.
- Gaganjeet Bhullar: Gaganjeet Bhullar finished on T45 with a score of 1-over 285.
- Aditi Ashok: Aditi finished at T29.
- Diksha Dagar: Diksha managed a T49 finish.
Hockey
The Indian men’s hockey team beat Spain 2-1 in the bronze medal match to finish third.
Judo
Tulika Maan (women’s 78 kg): Tulika Maan suffered an opening round exit from the women’s +78 kg event after a loss to Cuba’s Idalys Ortiz.
Rowing
Balraj Panwar: Balraj finished 23rd in the men’s single sculls event.
Sailing
- Nethra Kumanan (women’s one-person dinghy): Nethra finished in the 21st spot and failed to qualify for the final.
- Vishnu Saravanan (men’s one-person dinghy): Vishnu claimed 18th place in the men’s dinghy with a net score of 114.
Shooting
- Manu Bhaker (women’s 10m air pistol, 10m air pistol mixed team, women’s 25m pistol): Manu won bronze medals in the women’s and mixed-team 10 m air pistol events. She finished in 4th position in the 25-meter pistol final.
- Sarabjot Singh (men’s 10m air pistol, 10m air pistol mixed team): Sarabjot finished ninth in the men’s qualification rounds and won a bronze medal in the mixed team event.
- Swapnil Kusale (men’s 50m rifle 3 positions): Kusale won a bronze medal for India with a total score of 451.4.
- Arjun Babuta (men’s 10m air rifle, 10m air rifle mixed team): Babuta finished fourth in the 10m air rifle final and sixth in the qualification round of the mixed team event.
- Maheshwari Chauhan (women’s skeet and skeet mixed team): Maheshwari finished 14th in women’s skeet qualification and lost a bronze medal in mixed team.
- Ramita Jindal (women’s 10m air rifle, 10m air rifle mixed team): Ramita finished sixth in mixed-team qualification and ended up in 7th place in the 10m air rifle final.
- Prithviraj Tondaiman (men’s trap): Tondaiman finished 21st in the qualification round with a total score of 118 out of 125.
- Sandeep Singh (men’s 10m air rifle, 10m air rifle mixed team): Sandeep finished 12th in the qualification round of men’s 10m air rifle and 12th in the mixed team 10m air rifle.
- Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar (men’s 50m rifle 3 positions): Tomar finished 11th in qualification and failed to qualify for the final.
- Elavenil Valarivan (women’s 10m air rifle, 10m air rifle mixed team): Valarivan finished 10th in women’s qualification and 12th in the mixed team qualification.
- Sift Kaur Samra (women’s 50m rifle 3 positions): Sift finished 31st in qualification rounds.
- Rajeshwari Kumari (women’s trap): Kumari finished 22nd in the qualification round with a total score of 113.
- Anish Bhanwala (men’s 25m rapid fire pistol): Bhanwala failed to qualify for the final after finishing 13th in the qualification rounds.
- Anjum Moudgil (women’s 50m rifle 3 positions): Anjum finished 18th in qualification and missed out on a place in the final.
- Arjun Cheema (men’s 10m air pistol, 10m air pistol mixed team): Arjun finished 18th in the men’s qualification round and 10th in mixed-team qualification.
- Esha Singh (women’s 25m pistol): Esha failed to reach the final after finishing 18th in the qualification round.
- Rhythm Sangwan (women’s 10m air pistol, 10m air pistol mixed team): Rhythm finished 15th in women’s qualification and 10th in mixed team qualification.
- Vijayveer Sidhu (men’s 25m rapid fire pistol): Vijayveer finished ninth in qualification.
- Raiza Dhillon (women’s skeet): Kumari finished 23rd in the qualification round with a total score of 113.
- Anantjeet Singh Naruka (men’s skeet, skeet mixed team): Anantjeet finished 24th in the men’s skeet qualification and lost the bronze medal match of the mixed team event.
- Shreyasi Singh (women’s trap): Shreyasi ended up in 23rd position during qualification.
Swimming
- Srihari Nataraj (men’s 100m backstroke): Srihari Nataraj clocked 55.01 to finish second in heat 2 and 33rd overall in a field of 46.
- Dhinidhi Desinghu (women’s 200m freestyle): 14-year-old Dhinidhi Desinghu clocked 2:06.96 to top heat 1. But she finished 23rd among 30 swimmers across four heats and failed to progress to the semi-finals.
Table Tennis
- Sharath Kamal (men’s singles): Achanta Sharath Kamal lost his men’s singles Round of 64 match against lower-ranked Deni Kožul with a score line of 12-10, 9-11, 6-11, 7-11, 11-8, 10-12.
- Harmeet Desai (men’s singles): Harmeet Desai suffered a 0-4 (8-11, 8-11, 6-11, 8-11) defeat in his men’s single Round of 64 match.
- Sharath Kamal, Harmeet Desai, and Manav Thakkar (men’s team): The Indian men’s team lost 0-3 against China in the first round match to get knocked out.
- Manika Batra (women’s singles): Manika Batra won two matches but lost her women’s singles Round of 16 match against Miu Hirano of Japan with a score line of 6-11, 9-11, 14-12, 8-11, 6-11.
- Sreeja Akula (women’s singles): Sreeja Akula suffered a 0-4 (10-12, 10-12, 8-11, 3-11) defeat against China’s Sun Yingsha in her women’s singles Round of 16 match.
- Manika Batra, Sreeja Akula, and Archana Kamath (women’s team): The Indian women’s team of Manika, Sreeja, and Archana defeated Romania in the first round but lost to Germany in the quarterfinal.
Tennis
- Sumit Nagal (singles): Sumit lost his first-round match against Corentin Moutet of France 2-6, 6-2, 5-7 to get knocked out.
- Rohan Bopanna and N Sriram Balaji (men’s doubles): Bopanna and Balaji lost 5-7, 2-6 to the French pair of Gael Monfils and Edouard Roger-Vasselin in the opening round of the men’s doubles.
Weightlifting
Mirabai Chanu (women’s 49 kg): Mirabai lifted a total weight of 199 kg (88 kg in snatch, 111 kg in clean and jerk) to finish 4th.
Wrestling
- Aman Sehrawat (men’s freestyle 57 kg): Aman beats Darian Cruz of Puerto Rico to win a bronze medal for India.
- Vinesh Phogat (women’s 50 kg): Vinesh won three matches in a row to qualify for the final but was later disqualified for being overweight before the gold medal match.
- Antim Panghal (women’s 53 kg): Defeat by a margin of 0-10 against Turkey’s Zeynep Yetgil in her Round of 16 match.
- Anshu Malik (women’s 57 kg): Anshu lost her Round of 16 match against Alina Hrushyna of Ukraine with a score line of 2-16.
- Nisha Dahiya (women’s 68 kg): Nisha defeated Ukraine’s Tetiana Rizhko 6-4 in the Round of 16 match but lost to Pak Sol-gum of North Korea in the quarterfinal.
- Reetika Hooda (women’s 76 kg): Defeated Bernadett Nagy of Hungary in the Round of 16 match but lost in the quarterfinal against Aiperi Medet Kyzy of Kyrgyzstan.