India in the Olympics.

1. OLYMPIANS OF INDIA
By
G.Jawahar
George

2. APPEARANCE
 INDIA (BRITISH INDIA) PARTICIPATED IN
1900 OLYMPIC GAMES PARIS ,
 INDIA WON 2 SILVER MEDALS IN
ATHLETICS AND RANKED 17

3. INDIAN OLYMPIC ASSOCIATION
(1927 – PRESENT)
 FIRST PRESIDENT – SIR DORABJI TATA, LATER
REPLACED BY MAHARAJA BHUPINDRA
SINGH, RULER OF PATIALA , A SPORTS FAN.
 THE PRESENT PRESIDENT IS VIJAY KUMAR
MALHOTHRA.

4. MEDALS
GOLD SILVER BRONZE TOTAL
FIELD 8 1 2 11
HOCKEY
SHOOTING 1 1 0 2
ATHLETICS 0 2 0 2
WRESTLING 0 0 2 2
WEIGHT 0 0 1 1
LIFTING
TENNIS 0 0 1 1
BOXING 0 0 1 1
TOTAL 9 4 7 20

5. FIELD HOCKEY

6. INDIAN HOCKEY
 HOCKEY IS THE NATIONAL GAME OF INDIA.
 MOST SUCCESSFUL TEAM IN THE HISTORY OF
OLYMPICS WITH 8 GOLD 1 SILVER AND 2 BRONZE.
 ONLY TEAM TO WIN 6 CONSECUTIVE OLYMPIC
GOLD FROM 1928 – 1956.

7. “Indian Hockey Legend” - DYAN
CHAND
29/Aug/1905 – 3/Dec/1979

8. “Indian Hockey Legend” - DYAN
CHAND
 Started his career as a soldier in Indian army. He
played for the army hockey team..
 He qualified for the olympic team as center forward.
 In 1928 olympics Amsterdam Chand scored 14 goals in
5 matches.
“This is not a game of hockey, but magic. Dhyan Chand is in fact the magician of
hockey” – A leading news paper

9. “Indian Hockey Legend” - DYAN
CHAND
1932 Los Angeles Summer Olympics and Tours
 India won the finals against USA , 24 – 1. in which chand
scored 8/24.

10. “Indian Hockey Legend” - DYAN
CHAND
Captaincy and 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics
 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics he was appointed as
captain of the team.
 Indian team under his captaincy won the gold battling
against germany (8 – 1) in the finals. Chand scored 4
goals
 Overall, in 3 Olympic tournaments, Chand had scored
33 goals in 12 matches

11. Legacy
• August 29, Chand's birthday, is celebrated as National
Sports Day in India.
• Dhyan Chand holds record for the most international
goals. >1000
• The National Stadium, Delhi was renamed Dhyan Chand
National Stadium in 2002 in his honour.
• "He scores goals like runs in cricket“ – Don Bradman

12. Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav
Bronze in wrestling,1952 Olympics Helsinki
15/1/1926 – 14/8/1984

13. Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav
• He learned wrestling from his father, who is wrestler.
• He became best in his area and started participating in
national level competitions
• In the 1948 London Olympics, he participated in
the flyweight category finishing sixth
• 1952 Olympics won bronze medal.

14. Karnam Malleswari
Bronze medal in the 2000 Summer
Olympics at Sydney for weightlifting
1/6/1975 - present

15. Karnam Malleswari
 In 1992 she participated in the Asian champion ship
which took place inThailand and stood second and won
three silver medals.
 She won a bronze medal in the 2000 Summer
Olympics at Sydney lifting 110 kg in the Snatch and
130 kg in the Clean and Jerk for a total of 240 kg
 She is the first Indian woman to win an Olympic medal

16. Leander Paes
17 June 1973 (age 38)
 The most sucessful sportsman of india.
 Paes is the second man to win a medal
in individual sport in India.
 Won bronze in 1996 Atlanta Olympics
 He won 46 career titles in doubles
and mixed doubles events.
 His highest ranking is 1st in 1999 and
now he holds the 8th position.

17. Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
 Colonel Rajyavardhan Singh
Rathore ( Jaisalmer, Rajasthan) is
an Indian shooter who won the silver
medal in Men's Double Trap at
the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens
 First indian to win a olympic silver
medal
January 29, 1970 (age 41)

18. Achievements
• He has won Gold Medals in two World Cup Shooting Competitions, in
(Sydney) 2004 and (Cairo) 2006.
• In 2006 he won the Bronze Medal in the World Cup Final in (Spain) (an
event only for the top 12 shooters of the world)
• In all, from the period of 2002 to 2006 he had won 25 International Medals
in highly competitive competitions in his sport of Doubletrap Shooting

19. Abhinav Bindra
September 28, 1982(age 29)
He won gold for Men's 10m Air
Rifle shooting in 2008 Beijing Olympic
Games, The first Indian to win an
individual gold medal at the Olympic
Games.

20. Sushil Kumar
May 26, 1983 (age 28)[
 He won bronze medal in
the Men's 66kg
Freestyle
Wrestling event at
the 2008 Beijing
Olympics.
 He won gold medalin
the 66 kg freestyle
competition at the
FILA 2010 World
Wrestling
Championships
Moscow

21. Vijender Singh
29 October 1985 (age 26)
 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics, he
won bronze for boxing, the first
ever Olympic medal for an Indian
boxer
 He won a silver and bronze in
common wealth games in 2006 and
2010 respectively.

22. Viswanathan Anand
11 December 1969 (age 42)
“TIGER OF MADRAS”
“VISHY”

23. ACHIEVEMENTS
• In 1987, he became the first Indian to win the World Junior Chess
Championship.
• In 1988, at the age of eighteen, he became India's first Grandmaster by
winning Shakti Finance International chess tournament.
• World chess champion 2000 – 2002, 2007 - present
• Anand has won the Chess Oscar in 1997, 1998, 2003, 2004, 2007 and
2008.
• Anand won three consecutive Advanced Chess tournaments .
• Currently he is rated 2nd in the world.

24. Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar
The Little Master
Master Blaster
The Bombay Bomber
God of Cricket
“The Legend Of Indian Cricket”

25. Records and Achievements