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.
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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 first Indian woman player to win a four star badminton tournament was named Saina Nehawal. She won the bronze medal at the London Olympics in 2012.
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Margaret Abbot was the first woman to win a Gold medal in the Olympics. She one in 1900 for golf
Gladys Davis won a silver medal at the 1924 Olympics in the Individual Women's Foil event.
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The first gold medal won by an Indian woman was at the 1970 Asian Games in Bangkok when Kamaljeet Sandhu won the 400 meter run.
No Indian woman has won an Olympic medal in athletics. Through the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, only one Indian woman has won a medal. That is Karnam Malleswari who won a bronze medal in women's 69 kg weightlifting at the 2000 Games in Sydney.
India won 1 bronze medal at the 2000 Games in Sydney, that by Karnam Malleswari in women's 69 kg weightlifting. She is the first Indian woman to win an Olympic medal.
Wilma Rudolph in 1960.