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In India's final event at Tokyo Olympics, Neeraj Chopra provided a grandstand finish becoming the first ever from his country to win gold medal in a track and field event at the Summer Games. With a throw of 87.58m, he topped the standings and his performance helped India achieve their best ever medals tally at an Olympic.

PV Sindhu created history few days after Mirabai's silver after becoming the first ever female athlete from India to win two individual medals at Olympics. The badminton queen followed her Rio 2016 silver with a bronze medal in Tokyo as she beat China's He Bingjiao 21-13, 21-15.

The Indian men's hockey team promised a medal and they delivered, ending an excruciating long wait of 41 years. India defeated Germany 5-4 in an edge-of-the-seat thriller to win a bronze and India's 12th medal in hockey at the Summer Games.

Mirabai Chanu opened India's account at the Tokyo Olympics with a historic first ever silver medal in weightlifting. She thus became the first weightlifter from her country in 21 years to win an Olympic medal. The 26-year-old lifted a total of 202 kg - 87 kg in snatch plus 115 kg in clean and jerk - her two best attempts to seal her status as an India legend.

Lovlina Borgohain joined an elite list of Indian boxers to have won an Olympic medal. The 23-year-old Olympic debutant took home bronze and thus became the third boxer from her country after Vijender Singh and MC Mary Kom to come home with a medal from an Olympics.

Bajrang Punia was carrying a knee injury but he battled through the pain and disappointment of losing out on the gold medal spot to win an Olympic bronze on debut. He defeated Daulet Niyazbekov 8-0 in the bronze medal bout to emerge victorious.

Ravi Kumar Dahiya became the second wrestler in Indian history to win an Olympic silver. He won the medal in the 57kg becoming the fifth grappler from his country to do so.