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.
Sushil Kumar made the most of the repechage rounds to win his first Olympic medal and India’s maiden wrestling medal after 56 years.
The fourth round of the European GT4 Championship will take place at Belgium’s Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps later this month – a track familiar to Akhil Rabindra.
Karnam Malleswari is the first and only Indian woman weightlifter to win an Olympic medal, having achieved the unique distinction in the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
The Indian men's hockey team clinched their eighth - and final - gold medal in the sport at the Moscow Olympics in 1980.
"Have been unlucky but who isn't in this world at some point?" Devendro Singh asked a few years back. One has to have lost a lot of battles.
Krishan was hailed as one of the boxing prodigies of the time when he was young, and his record and performances backed that claim.