Milkha Singh may have finished fourth in the 400m final of the 1960 Rome Olympics, but he set a national record that day which stood for nearly 40 years.
Rajyavardhan Rathore's heroics in the 2004 Athens Olympics played a key role in spurring the growth of Shooting, which suffered an alarming lack of awareness previously.
Abhinav Bindra became the first shooter in the history of India to win a gold medal during the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
The 1948 London Olympics saw India winning a gold medal for the first time as an independent nation.
India secured their first Olympic gold medal in the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics, with Dhyan Chand scoring three hat-tricks.
Yogeshwar Dutt lost in the quarterfinals of the men's freestyle 60kg division but dominated the repechage to win a bronze medal.
Saina Nehwal became the first Indian badminton player to win an Olympic medal after clinching the bronze in the 2012 London Games.
The team failed to bring home a medal but they managed to reach the quarter-finals, which was a good achievement at the time.
From the heartbreak of losing to their arch-rivals in the semi-final, to winning the bronze medal, the team had recovered quite well.
After flying under the radar of the much-fancied Akhil Kumar, Vijender Singh created history by winning India’s first boxing medal in Olympics.