The XXXII Olympiad branded as Tokyo 2020 was held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July. Originally scheduled to take place in the summer of 2020, the Games were postponed for one year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
World’s top athletes from 205 national Olympic committee teams and the IOC Refugee Olympic Team gathered in Tokyo seeking a distinction in 339 events of 33 different sports, encompassing a total of 50 disciplines.
Greece
Greek athletes have competed in every Summer Olympic Games of the modern era and as the progenitor nation of the Olympic Games and in keeping with tradition, Greece entered first at the Stadium during the parade of nations at the opening ceremony.
The Hellenic Olympic Committee participated in Tokyo 2020 Olympics with 83 athletes in 17 sports and ranked 36th after winning 4 medals (2 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze).
Medal | Name | sport | event |
Gold | Stefanos Ntouskos | Rowing | Men’s single sculls |
Gold | Miltiadis Tentoglou | Athletics | Men’s long jump |
Silver | Greece men’s national water polo team Stylianos Argyropoulos Georgios Dervisis Ioannis Fountoulis Konstantinos Galanidis Konstantinos Genidounias Konstantinos Gkiouvetsis Marios Kapotsis Christodoulos Kolomvos Konstantinos Mourikis Alexandros Papanastasiou Dimitrios Skoumpakis Angelos Vlachopoulos Emmanouil Zerdevas | Water polo | Men’s tournament |
Bronze | Eleftherios Petrounias | Gymnastics | Men’s rings |
India
India has appeared in all Olympic Games since 1920, although it made its official debut at the 1900 Olympics in Paris. The nation sent its largest-ever team of 124 athletes to compete in 18 sports.
Javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra won a gold medal with a stunning throw of 87.58m to become India’s second ever individual Olympic gold medalist after shooter Abhinav Bindra. This is also India’s best-ever Olympic haul with seven medals — one gold, two silvers, and four bronze medals.
Medal | Name | sport | event |
Gold | Neeraj Chopra | Athletics | Men’s javelin throw |
Silver | Saikhom Mirabai Chanu | Weightlifting | Women’s 49 kg |
Silver | Ravi Kumar Dahiya | Wrestling | Men’s freestyle 57 kg |
Bronze | P. V. Sindhu | Badminton | Women’s singles |
Bronze | Lovlina Borgohain | Boxing | Women’s welterweight |
Bronze | India men’s national field hockey team Dilpreet Singh Rupinder Pal Singh Surender Kumar Manpreet Singh (C) Hardik Singh Gurjant Singh Simranjeet Singh Mandeep Singh Harmanpreet Singh Lalit Upadhyay P. R. Sreejesh Sumit Nilakanta Sharma Shamsher Singh Varun Kumar Birendra Lakra Amit Rohidas Vivek Prasad | Field hockey | Men’s tournament |
Bronze | Bajrang Punia | Wrestling | Men’s freestyle 65 kg |