India Medal Tally, Tokyo 2020: With 7 Medals, This Is India's Best Olympic Performance | Olympics Summary

Tokyo2020: With 1 Gold, 2 Silvers and 4 Bronze medals, India won 7 medals, their highest ever! Check out India's medals tally in this year's Olympic Games below.

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Tokyo: Neeraj Chopra's gold medal in Javelin Throw helped India jump 18 places in the Tokyo Olympics medal tally. India has secured 47th position from the 65th position on Saturday. Chopra's medal became India's seventh medal in Tokyo Olympics 2020. 

India had won just 2 medals at the Rio Olympics 2016. Thus, this is a great achievement from where India stood last time in the Olympics. In 2016, India's rank was 67 in the medals tally. India's previous best performance came in the 2012 London Olympics when India had won six medals, but India had failed to win gold even then. 

India's previous gold medal came way back in the 2008 Beijing Olympics when Abhinav Bindra had won the gold. 

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Let's take a look at India's Olympic 2020 Medal Summary:

Mirabai Chanu: India's journey began when Mirabai Chanu, a weightlifter, gave India its first medal at the Tokyo Olympics. She took silver in the women's 49 kg category. It was India's second medal in weight-lifting after the 2000 Sydney Olympics. 

PV Sindhu: She secured a bronze medal in the women's singles event, becoming the second Indian and the country's first woman to win two Olympic medals. This was India's second medal. 

Lovina Borgohain: She secured a bronze medal in boxing. Lovlina is only the third Indian boxer after Vijender Singh (2008) and Mary Kom (2012) to win an Olympic medal. 

Ravi Dahiya: Ravi Dahiya who hails from a small village in Sonepat, Haryana won a silver medal for India at the Tokyo Olympics in Men's 57 kg wrestling. This became India's fourth medal. He was unhappy after losing the final. 

Men's Hockey: After a disappointing semi-final loss, India's men's hockey team won a medal after 41 years. It was a historic moment for the Indian team. India won a bronze. 

Bajrang Punia: He won a bronze medal in the 65kg category in wrestling. This was India's 6th medal in this year's Olympics. 

Neeraj Chopra: Finally,  India's national record holder in Javelin Throw, Neeraj Chopra secured a gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics 2020.

India’s 🇮🇳 Olympics Medals

1896🥈🥈
1928🥇
1932🥇
1936🥇
1948🥇
1952🥇🥉
1956🥇
1960🥈
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1968🥉
1972🥉
1980🥇
1996🥉
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2008🥇🥉🥉
2012🥈🥈🥉🥉🥉🥉
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2021🥇🥈🥈🥉🥉🥉🥉

This is highest #olympics tally we ever got in any single edition

— Rishi Bagree (@rishibagree) August 7, 2021

With 1 Gold, 2 Silvers and 4 Bronze medals, India won 7 medals, their highest ever! Overall, it was a good Olympics for India. There were some disappointments as well, especially Mary Kom and Deepak Punia. Nonetheless, this was India's best performance at the Olympic Games 2020. 

With Neeraj Chopra's medal, India bids adieu to the Tokyo Olympic Games 2020.