Yes.
That was a silver medal won by Rajyavardhan Rathore in men's double trap shooting.
India has only 83 Athletes in competition for the 2012 Summer Olympics and they were not already known as the world's best in there field. They already have as many medals as they won in 2008 and there is still a week to go in the games. You could say they are ahead and not behind because in 2004 they only won a silver medal with 73 athletes. They currently hold a medal ranking of 41 on August 5 2012.
That was Karnam Malleswari who won a bronze medal in weightlifting at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. As of the 2008 Games, she is the only Indian women to win a medal at the Olympics.
Figure skater Peggy Fleming won the only gold medal for the US in the 1968 Winter Olympics.
jamaca
No, not only has Chile not won a gymnastics medal ... they have never sent an athlete to the Olympics to compete in gymnastics.
Not only did she fail to medal, she was dead last in the final.
Jim Thorpe was an American of European and Native American decent. He was in the 1912 Olympics in Sweden. He won gold medals in the pentathlon and the decathlon. In the 2008 Games in Beijing, Abhinav Bindra became the first athlete representing the country of India to win gold in an individual event when he won the men's 10 meter air rifle competition. This was India's 9th gold medal in Olympic competition. The other eight have been won by the hockey team.
Through the 2004 Summer Games in Athens, no Indian woman has won a gold medal at the Olympics. The only Indian woman to win a medal in Olympic competition was Karnam Malleswari who won the bronze medal in weightlifting in the 69 kg weight class at the 2000 Summer Games in Sydney. All of India's gold medals at the Olympics have come in field hockey. India has won gold 8 times in Olympic field hockey: 1928, 1932, 1936, 1948, 1952, 1956, 1964, and 1980.
The flag bearer for the Olympic team from India in the 2008 Games was Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore. Rajyavardhan won India's only medal in the 2004 Games, a silver in double trap shooting.
they have only 5
John Curry
Only 1 Gold Medal was won out of there 13 Medal total