Follow Us
June 23 is celebrated as Olympic Day, a day to get active and encourage others to take part in activities, which promote Olympic values. To commemorate the day, an exhibition hockey match will be played at Jarkhar village in Ludhiana between Jarkhar Academy and Kila Raipur Academy on Friday. The day highlights the message of move, learn and discover through sports, besides promoting benefits of physical exercise, inspiring people to get active and enabling them to learn new sports while embracing Olympic ideals
India first participated in the Olympic Games in 1900 with a lone athlete, Norman Pritchard. India first sent a team to the Summer Olympic Games in 1920 and has participated in every Summer Games since then
26 medals in 30 Olympic Games for India (9 gold, 6 silver and 11 bronze) till now. From 1928 to 1980, India dominated in hockey by winning 8 gold medals (1928, 1932, 1936, 1948, 1952, 1956, 1964, 1980). Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav was the first Indian to win an individual medal (bronze in men’s freestyle wrestling) in 1952 Helsinki Olympics
Abhinav Bindra is the first Indian to win an individual gold at the Olympic Games. It was also India’s first gold medal since 1980, when the men’s field hockey team won the gold. He is the only Indian to have held World and Olympic titles at the same time
The International Olympic Day was initiated in 1948 for commemorating the commencement of modern Olympic Games on June 23, 1894 in Sorbonne in Paris
Michael Phelps
has won the most Olympic medals — 23 gold, 3 silver, 2 bronze. He is also the most decorated Olympian in individual events, with 16 medals — 13 gold, 2 silver, 1 bronze
6
7
9