India at Paris Olympic 2024 – Champions who came 4th | APSC/Assam Exams Current Affairs GK
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India, with a total of 6 medals, including one silver and five bronze medals, finished at the 71st spot in the overall medal tally in the 2024 Paris Olympics. India had a mixed performance at the coveted Summer Games. With a population of 1.4 billion, India’s tally of one silver and five bronze medals seems quite modest.
It’s disappointing that India did not win a single gold medal. However, when compared to past Olympic Games, the Paris results are not too disheartening.
Although we didn’t surpass our Tokyo 2020 total of seven medals (one gold, two silver, four bronze), our performance was better than in Rio 2016, where we won only two medals.
The results in sports like badminton, boxing, and archery were disappointing as many had expected medals in these events. However, there is still some hope, with six fourth-place finishes and the fact that Vinesh Phogat’s disqualification might have cost India a potential gold or silver.
Despite having access to top-notch training facilities, exposure, and medical support, Indian sports at the grassroots level still need more attention and support. The government has made significant efforts to support elite athletes, spending Rs 470 crore over the last three years preparing for the Paris Olympics. The largest amounts were allocated to athletics (Rs 96.08 crore), badminton (Rs 72.02 crore), boxing (Rs 60.93 crore), and shooting (Rs 60.42 crore). Funding was provided to all 16 disciplines in which India participated.
A total of 6 athletes finished fourth for India at the Games India finished with six medals, their second-best Games tally. However, India could well have had their best-ever campaign at the Games, had it not been for a series of heartbreaking fourth-place finishes.
India’s fourth place finishers at Olympic 2024
Shooter Arjun Babuta, finishing with 208.4 points in the 10m Men’s Air Rifle final. The 25-year-old missed the bronze as he scored 9.5 on his final shot.
Manu Bhaker had the chance to complete a historic hat-trick at the Games but narrowly missed out on the feat, finishing fourth in the women’s 25m pistol event.
Indian mixed archery team consisting of Ankita Bhakat and Dhiraj Bommadevara losing to the USA in the bronze medal match 2-4.
The Mixed skeet team represented by Maheshwari Chauhan and Anant Jeet Singh Naruka also continued the rendezvous with a fourth place, losing against China in the bronze medal match.
Lakshya Sen lost to Malaysia’s Lee Zii Jia in the bronze medal match in the men’s singles badminton event. However, the 22-year-old etched his name in history books, becoming the first male player to qualify for the semi-final in the Olympics.
Weightlifter Mirabai Chanu also failed to win her second successive Olympic medal by 1 kg, finishing in fourth place in the women’s 49kg category. The 30-year-old lifted a total weight of 199 kg across snatch and clean and jerk lifts, losing third place to Thailand’s Surodchana Khambao, who lifted 200 kg.
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