The Indian hockey team earned its first Olympic medal at the 1928 Amsterdam Games, where they scored 29 goals across five matches to secure the gold medal. Dhyan Chand, renowned for his extraordinary skill, scored 14 of those goals, including a hat-trick in the final against the Netherlands.
In the Paris Olympics 2024, under the leadership of Harmanpreet Singh, the Indian men’s team claimed their 13th Olympic hockey medal by defeating Spain in the bronze medal match.
Read this to know how the Indian Hockey Team bagged a bronze at Paris 2024.
Here is a complete list of all the medals won by India in hockey at the Olympic Games.
| INDIAN HOCKEY TEAM’S DREAM RUN AT OLYMPICS OVER THE YEARS | |
| MEDAL | EDITION |
| Gold | Amsterdam 1928 |
| Gold | Los Angeles 1932 |
| Gold | Berlin 1936 |
| Gold | London 1948 |
| Gold | Helsinki 1952 |
| Gold | Melbourne 1956 |
| Silver | Rome 1960 |
| Gold | Tokyo 1964 |
| Bronze | Mexico City 1968 |
| Bronze | Munich 1972 |
| Gold | Moscow 1980 |
| Bronze | Tokyo 2020 |
| Bronze | Paris 2024 |
India has a rich tradition in men’s hockey, winning as many as eight gold medals. The last time India won gold, though, was in 1980. Other than these eight golds, India has won a silver medal in 1960 and three bronzes in 1968, 1972, 2020 and most recently at the Paris Olympics 2024.
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