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India at the Olympics

India first competed at the Olympic Games in 1900, with just a single athlete - Norman Pritchard - won two medals in athletics. India first sent a team to the 1920 Olympic Games. The majority of Olympic medals won by Indian athletes is in Field Hockey.

Trivia

• India's first Olympian Norman Pritchard went on to star in Hollywood and Broadway.

• India is the country in the world with the lowest number of total Olympic medals per capita.

• The first individual Olympic gold medal won by an Indian athlete was by Abhinav Bindra in 2008 (shooting).

Related Pages

• list of all countries that have participated at the Olympic Games.
• About Sport in India