As of the 2008 Games, 11 of India's 17 Olympic medals have been won by the men's Field Hockey team (8 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronze). Individual medals have been won by:
2004: Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore - Silver in Shooting
2000: Karnam Malleswari - Bronze in Weightlifting
1996: Leander Peas - Bronze in tennis
1952: Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav - Bronze in Wrestling
1900: Norman Pritchard - Silver in 200 meter dash and silver in 200 meter hurdles
Now Indians are under the cricket fever.. It will change in future.. India will win More medals in upcoming years.. India will beat USA,China in Olympic medals..
1948 and 1952.
well, throughout the years the british have won about two medals, but the one was a little unfair.
china 51, u.s. 36
23 gold medals Michael Phelps' 28 medals spanning five Games is unrivaled, and no other Olympic athlete comes close to his 23 gold medals. The swimmer made his mark on the Games starting over 20 years ago at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, when, at 15 years old, he became the youngest man on U.S. Olympic swim team in 68 years.
She scored a 10 seven times acctually, but the first time she scored a 10, she was 14 years old.
He won Olympic medals in 1984, 1988, 1992, and 1996, World Championship medals in 1983, 1987, 1991 and 1993 and Pan American medals in 1979 and 1987.
16 gold, 2 silver, 2 bronze
Over the years, the United States has won the most medals with a total of 2549. 2nd is Great Britain (737), and 3rd is France (730).
Usaine Bolt won 3 gold in 2008. In 2012 he won 3 gold medals again. Both years the medals were won from 100m 200m and 4 by 100 relay.
68. In the last 5 Summer Olympics, Australia has won 63 gold medals and in the last 5 Winter Olympics, Australia has won 5 gold medals.
It was much more popular thousands of years ago for jewelry, but bronze jewelry is now mostly medals, like Olympic medals and such. Gold jewelry is sometimes strengthened with bronze.