Indian Contingents Concludes with 7 Medals at 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics Games

Indian Contingents Concludes with 7 Medals at 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics Games

• The 2020 Summer Olympics came to an end on August 08, 2021. The international multi-sport event was held from July 23 to August 08, 2021 in Tokyo, Japan.
• This was for the fourth time that Japan hosted the Olympic Games, after previously hosting the Tokyo 1964 (Summer), Sapporo 1972 (Winter), and Nagano 1998 (Winter) games.
• Apart from this, Tokyo is the first Asian city to hold the Summer Games twice.

Medal Table

• The United States has topped the overall medal table with 113 medals, which includes 39 Gold, 41 Silver and 33 Bronze Medal.
• Indian Contingent managed to win 7 medals comprising 1 Gold, 2 Silver and 4 Bronze Medals. The country stood at 48th position in the medal table out of 86 countries.

Top Five Nations in the Medal Table

1. United States – 113 (39, 41, 33)
2. China – 88 (38, 32, 18)
3. Japan – 58 (27, 14, 17)
4. Great Britain – 65 (22, 21, 22)
5. Team ROC (the Russian Olympic Committee) – 71 (20, 28, 23)

India in the Olympics Games 2020

• India finished the Games with its best-ever Olympic medal tally of 7 in Tokyo Games 2020, surpassing the previous best record of 6 medals at 2012 London Olympic.
• Indian contingent at Tokyo Games 2020 was its largest ever at the Olympics with 125 athletes.
• MC Mary Kom, and men’s hockey team skipper, Manpreet Singh, were flag-bearers for the Indian contingent at the opening ceremony.
• Bronze-medalist Bajrang Punia was the flag-bearer at the closing ceremony of the event.

Indian Medal Winners List

Gold

1. Neeraj Chopra – Men’s Javelin (Read More)

Silver

1. Mirabai Chanu – Women’s 49kg Weightlifting (Read More)
2. Ravi Dahiya – Men’s Freestyle 57kg Wrestling (Read More)

Bronze

1. Lovlina Borgohain – Women’s Welterweight boxing (Read More)
2. PV Sindhu – Women’s Singles Badminton (Read More)
3. Bajrang Punia – Men’s 65kg Freestyle Wrestling (Read More)
4. India men’s hockey team – Bronze (Read More)

Points to Remember:

1. Host city of 2020 Summer Olympics: Japan
2. Top Country in Medal table – the US
3. Total medal won by India- 7 
4. Associated sports of each athlete who won the medal at the event.
5. Flag bearer at the opening and closing ceremony from India