Top achievements of India in sports since 1947
Top achievements of India in sports since 1947, With India turning 75 on August 15, the country has seen numerous groundbreaking sports moments.
Indian sports include tribal and mainstream games. India’s athletes are world-class. Many sports are respected and watched today.
Following cricket are football and hockey. Saina Nehwal, PV Sindhu, Abhinav Bindra, Sania Mirza, etc. have inspired the average guy to pursue a career in athletics with their great honors. Social and electronic media have pushed it forward.
The Sports Authority of India is the largest government program for developing young athletes. India has numerous World Cup wins.
The public sector of the sports industry includes government and government organizations. This article looks at India’s sporting achievements since independence.
Hockey
1948 Olympic Hockey Gold
Indian field hockey won the country’s first gold medal at the 1948 Summer Olympics. India’s first Olympic gold after independence.
Malaysia 1975 World Cup
1975 was India’s first World Cup. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia hosted the 1975 Hockey World Cup. Surjit Singh and Ashok Kumar scored for India in the final, which they won 2–1. It was both countries’ second World Cup Final.
Cricket
India won in 1983 and 2011.
1983 World Cup
The 1983 Cricket World Cup was held June 9-25 in England and Wales. Winner: India. England, India, Pakistan, and West Indies reached the 1983 ODI World Cup semi-finals. India beat West Indies by 43 runs in the finals at Lord’s to win its first Cricket World Cup.
ODI 2011
India won the 2011 World Cup at Mumbai’s Wankhede Stadium. Sri Lanka lost by 6 wickets versus India. India won their first Cricket World Cup on home soil.
2007 World T20
2007 ICC World T20 champion India beat Pakistan.
Asian Games
1951 was India’s first Asian Games. In 1951, New Delhi hosted the First Asian Games. The Asian Games are the world’s second-largest multi-sport event. In 1982, India hosted the Asian Games. India placed sixth at the 1982 Asian Games in New Delhi. The host country earned 13 gold, 19 silver, and 25 bronze medals.
India’s first Afro-Asian Games
India hosted the first Afro-Asian Games in New Delhi from November 3-11, 2001. Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee released ‘Sheroo’ on August 5, 2001.
Football
India won the inaugural 1951 Asian Games football gold medal in New Delhi. They also won in Indonesia in 1962. Indian football’s last big international success was the 1970 Asian Games medal.
Badminton
1980 England Open champion Prakash Padukone.
Chess
2000 World Chess Champion Vishwanathan Anand. First Indian to do it. Anand has won five titles since.
Olympics
Vijender Singh won India’s first Olympic boxing medal in 2008 in Beijing.
Abhinav Bindra’s Olympic gold.
Neeraj Chopra won India’s first track and field gold medal in Tokyo 2020.
PV Sindhu won world titles in 2019, 2016, and 2020.
KD Jadhav won India’s first Olympic medal. He earned bantamweight bronze in 1952. India’s first wrestling medal.
Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore’s Athens silver medal.
Achievements:
Dipa Karmakar placed 4th in gymnastics solo at Rio.
Olympics
Delhi, India, hosted in 2010. India’s competitors won 38 gold, 27 silver, and 36 bronze medals.
Post-partition Milkha Singh was India’s first sports superstar. He became India’s first Commonwealth Games gold medalist. 440-yard winner.
Bishamber (Bantamweight), Mukhtar (Lightweight), and Bhim (Heavyweight) Singh won gold in 1966.
Ved Prakash, Sudesh Kumar, Udey Chand, Mukhtiar Singh, and Harishchandra Birajdar won gold.
Sudesh Kumar, Prem Nath, Jagrup Singh, and Raghunath Pawar won in 1974.
In 1978, Prakash Padukone won India’s first Badminton gold medal. Ashok Kumar, Satbir Singh, and Rajinder Singh won gold. Ekambaram Karunakaran won in weightlifting.
Ram Chander Singh (Light Flyweight), Mahabir Singh (Flyweight), Jagminder Singh (Lightweight), and Rajinder Singh (Welterweight) won wrestling gold, while Syed Modi won India’s second Badminton gold in men’s singles.
Ashok Pandit won India’s shooting gold in 1990. (Centre Fire Pistol – Men).
Mansher Singh won shotgun trap in 1994. Badathala Adisekhar won two gold medals.
Roopa Unnikrishnan earned India’s first gold medal in 1998.
The 2002 team finished 4th with 30 gold, 22 silver, and 17 bronze medals. Sameer Ambekar, Abhinav Bindra, Jaspal Rana, Samaresh Jung, Mahaveer Singh, Vivek Singh, Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, Moraad Ali Khan, Charan Singh, Bhanwat Lal Dhaka, Mukesh Kumar, and Anjali Pathak, Raj Kumari, Suma Shirur won gold in shooting. Kunjurani Devi led India to 33 weightlifting medals.
India’s shooters alone earned 16 gold medals in 2006. Samaresh Jung won the first David Dixon Award, which honors Commonwealth Games athletes. India won three weightlifting golds. Gold medalists Geeta Rani, Kunjarani Devi Nameirakpam, and Yumnam Chanu. Akhil Kumar won gold in Bantamweight.
Ashish Kumar won silver and bronze in gymnastics for India in 2010, a “first in Games history.” India’s first athletics gold medal in 52 years was won by Geeta Phogat and Krishna Poonia.
Vikas Gowda earned India’s first men’s athletics gold medal in 56 years in 2014. Parupalli Kashyap won the Badminton Men’s Singles Gold. Joshna Chinappa and Dipika Pallikal earned India’s first Squash gold.
Neeraj Chopra, 20, won men’s javelin gold with a throw of 86.47m, and Saina Nehwal beat compatriot Sindhu in badminton singles. Vikas Solanki, Vikas Krishnan, and MC Mary Kom won gold in boxing.
Jitu Rai, Anish Bhanwala, Sanjeev Rajput, Manu Bhaker, Heena Sidhu, Shreyasi Singh, and Tejaswini Sawant earned shooting gold. Manika Batra won women’s singles, and India won men’s and women’s team gold. Sathish Sivalingam, Ragala Venkat Rahul, Mirabai Chanu, Sanjita Chanu, and Punam Yadav won gold in weightlifting. Rahul Awre, Bajrang Punia, Sushil Kumar, Sumit Malik, and Vinesh Phogat won gold medals for India in wrestling.
Badminton champion
1983: Prakash Padukone (bronze)
2011: Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponappa (bronze)
2013: PV Sindhu (bronze)
2014: PV Sindhu (bronze)
2015: Saina Nehwal (silver)
2017: PV Sindhu (silver), Saina Nehwal (bronze)
2018: PV Sindhu (silver)
2019: Sai Praneeth (bronze)
2019: PV Sindhu (gold)
2022: PV Sindhu (bronze)