Paris Olympics 2024: Full list of India’s medal winners, and near misses

Neeraj Chopra, Manu Bhaker, Sarabjot Singh, Swapnil Kusale, Aman Sehrawat, and Indian hockey team shine at Paris 2024 Olympics. Here is a list of India’s medal winners.

Neeraj Chopra, Manu Bhaker, Sarabjot Singh, Swapnil Kusale, Aman Sehrawat, and the Indian hockey team contributed to the six medals, including a silver and five bronze, that India won in the Paris 2024 Olympics, ranking the country in the 71st place on the medals tally.

While the six medals gave many reasons to celebrate, India’s campaign at the Olympics was also filled with many near misses including that of Lakshya Sen in Badminton, Saikhom Mirabhai Chanu in Weightlifting, and Vinesh Phogat’s disqualification from the wrestling final.

While India rested its hope of a gold medal on reigning Olympic and Javelin Throw world champion Neeraj Chopra, it was ultimately not to be as he lost to Pakistan’s Arshad Nadeem who bettered an Olympic record that had stood for 16 years, not once but twice. 

Nadeem’s first — a throw of 92.97m in his second throw of the competition secured his gold medal. The second of 91.79m in his final attempt put the final exclamation mark on a near-flawless performance. Chopra produced his biggest throw of the season in the qualification throw with 89.34m. He improved on that in his second throw of the final with 89.45m which netted him a silver medal.

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During his performances, Chopra has been careful about the injury he has been carrying for some time. He agreed that it affected his focus. “Despite that I performed well and got my season best throw.”

Following his performance, Chopra became the second male athlete post-independence to win two Olympic medals in an individual event.