The gold medal at the Amsterdam 1928 Games was the first of the Indian hockey team’s record six-consecutive Olympic triumphs.
The Indian hockey team scored 35 goals in two matches after overcoming financial troubles and a tiring voyage to win a second-consecutive Olympic gold.
Surrounded by self-doubt heading into the Berlin Olympics, the Indian team put up a great show to win its third straight Olympic gold medal in 1936.
It may have been a fourth-consecutive Olympic gold for the Indian hockey team but this one was special for more reasons than one.
Balbir Singh Senior’s genius helped the Indian hockey team overcome some infighting, drop in form and the elements to land their fifth straight Olympic gold.
The Indian hockey team, led by Balbir Singh Sr, was unbeaten at the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne, scoring 38 goals and conceding none. India beat Pakistan in the final.
Having lost their Olympic crown to Pakistan at the Rome 1960 Summer Games, the Indian hockey team regained the title beating its arch-rivals at Tokyo 1964.
An inexperienced team was moulded into champions by motivational talks from ex-players and an Army chief. Here's how the last hockey Olympic gold for India was won.
The gold medal in the men's 10m air rifle at Beijing 2008 was the crowning glory in Abhinav Bindra's stellar sporting career, which includes a World Championship gold and multiple medals at the Commonwealth Games and the Asian Games.
He is only the second Indian to win an Olympic gold medal after Abhinav Bindra achieved the same feat in men’s 10m air rifle shooting at the Beijing Olympics in 2008.