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hockey team (8 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronze). Individual medals have been won by:
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India is remarkable among nations for having won very few Olympic medals despite a
population exceeding a billion, around half of them under the age of 25. Numerous explanations
have been offered for the mainly the predominance of cricket and other cultural factors.[1][2][3][4]
According to several informal statistics, India is the country in the world with the lowest number
of total Olympic medals per capita (of those countries that have actually won at least one medal).
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Bronze
Total
Field hockey 8 1 2 11
Shooting 1 1 0 2
Athletics 0 2 0 2
Wrestling 0 0 2 2
Weightlifting 0 0 1 1
Tennis 0 0 1 1
Boxing 0 0 1 1
Total 9 4 7 20