National team National team Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav National team National team National team National team National team National team Leander Paes Karnam Malleswari Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore Abhinav Bindra Sushil Kumar Vijender Kumar
Worldwide Olympi Country
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United States Soviet Union Germany Great Britain France India (Post Independence)
Summer Games Atlanta, US Sydney, Australia Athens, Greece Beijing China London, Great Britain Rio de Janeiro
Olympic FIRSTS's Trivia The FIRST time women competed at the Olympic Games was in 1900 in Paris.
The FIRST woman t o win an Olympic event was England's Charlotte Cooper, who won the tennis singles in 1900. The FIRST team sport added to the Olympics was Football in 1900. The FIRST Games be held in the southern hemisphere were in Melbourne, 1956. The FIRST Games to be televised were Berlin in 1936. The events were shown on large screens around Berlin. The FIRST Olympic Games Gam es to be covered by television worldwide was the Rome Olympics in 1960. The FIRST athlete to be disqualified for drug use was Swedish pentathlete Hans-Grunner Liljenwall, having tested positive for excessive alcohol in Mexico City 1968.
ance at Olympics Games 1948 London 1952 Helsinki 1952 Helsinki 1956 Melbourne 1960 Rome 1964 Tokyo 1968 Mexico 1972 Munich 1980 Moscow 1996 Atlanta 2000 Sydney 2004 Athens 2008 Beijing 2008 Beijing 2008 Beijing
Sport Field hockey Field hockey W restling Field hockey Field hockey Field hockey Field hockey Field hockey Field hockey Tennis W eightlifting Shooting Shooting W restling Boxing
Event Men's competition Men's competition Men's freestyle bantamweight Men's competition Men's competition Men's competition Men's competition Men's competition Men's competition Men's singles W omen's 69 kg Men's double trap Men's 10m Air Rifle Men's 66 kg Freestyle Men's 75 kg
