08-11-2008, 12:13 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Despite a population of around 1.1 billion people, India had only won four individual medals, none of them gold, since sending their first team to the Summer Games in 1928.
They have won the Olympic hockey tournament eight times and taken three other medals in the sport, though none since 1980.
India's only other Olympic medals were a bronze for freestyle wrestler Kha-Shaba Jadav in Helsinki in 1952 and a bronze for tennis player Leander Paes in 1996.
Weightlifter Karnam Malleswari became India's first female Olympic medallist with bronze in the 69kg category in 2000 and shooter Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore won silver in the double trap event four years ago in Athens. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
They have won the Olympic hockey tournament eight times and taken three other medals in the sport, though none since 1980.
India's only other Olympic medals were a bronze for freestyle wrestler Kha-Shaba Jadav in Helsinki in 1952 and a bronze for tennis player Leander Paes in 1996.
Weightlifter Karnam Malleswari became India's first female Olympic medallist with bronze in the 69kg category in 2000 and shooter Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore won silver in the double trap event four years ago in Athens. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->