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<!--QuoteBegin-Krishna+Aug 17 2004, 11:51 PM-->QUOTE(Krishna @ Aug 17 2004, 11:51 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin--><!--QuoteBegin-Viren+Aug 17 2004, 01:17 PM--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Viren @ Aug 17 2004, 01:17 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin--> All won bronze medals. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Viren, make that the first silver medal then! <!--emo&--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--emo&--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tongue.gif' /><!--endemo--><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
No this is the third Indian silver medal. The first two silver medals were won at the Paris Olympics in 1900 by Norman Pritchard an Anglo-India who ran for India. He won in 200 metres and 200 metres hurdles. A controversy has been created by some Brits that he was actually a British which probably is true and India officially did not participate until 1928 (again true). It did unofficially participate though. However, the Olympic official website lists him as an Indian.

1900 Olympics results