CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Wrestler Sushil Kumar is the only other Indian with two Olympic medals.

Detailed explanation-2: -Wrestler Sushil Kumar became the first Indian with multiple individual Olympic medals (bronze at the 2008 Summer Olympics and silver at the 2012 Summer Olympics) since independence.

Detailed explanation-3: -List Of Gold Medal Winners From India. India has won 10 gold medals at the Olympics. The men’s hockey team itself accounts for eight of them. After Abhinav Bindra, Neeraj Chopra is the second individual Olympic champion.

Detailed explanation-4: -PV Sindhu became the Indian woman to clinch two Olympic medals. At the Tokyo Olympics, she defeated He Bin Jao to clinch the bronze medal.

Detailed explanation-5: -After becoming the first Indian female athlete to win a Silver medal at the Olympics in Rio 5 years ago, PV Sindhu has become only the 2nd Indian athlete after Sushil Kumar to win 2 individual medals at the Games.