Pierre de Coubertin in 1914. The colours are (from left to right) blue, yellow, black, green, and red. It was first flown at the Antwerp Olympic stadium in 1920. Hi! friends Olympic and sports lovers Welcome to "Olympic Games Philately". Please Leave your valuable comments on this blog, This blog aims to promote Olympic philately.This blog has different contents taken from sites like Olympic committee official site, Wikipedia, and Google, etc.If you find something in the contents drop a line are please fell free To connect the Blogger at jagannathmani7@gmail.com
Pierre de Coubertin in 1914. The colours are (from left to right) blue, yellow, black, green, and red. It was first flown at the Antwerp Olympic stadium in 1920.
Abhinav Bindra won the gold medal in the men's 10m air rifle shooting event. In doing so, he won the first ever individual gold medal for Indian and the first medal in any event for India at the Games,
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2004 Games:
She contested at the 2004 Athens Olympics, but failed to win a medalRound 1: 6.69 m, Final: 6.83 m finished 6th place
2004 Games:
Lt. Col. Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore won a Silver medal in the Shooting, Men's Double Trap, at games which made him the second Indian Men to win an Olympic Silver medal.
2000 Games :
Karnam Malleswari won a bronze medal in the games , the first Indian woman to win an Olympic medal.
1988 Games:
Manoj Pingle Hero of games finished fifth in Boxing to Mexican Gonzales on split decision in the quarter-finals
1984 Games:

India didn't win a medal but the Games are remembered for bringing Indian women athletes centre stage. P. T. Usha lost the bronze medal in 400 metre hurdles by one-hundredth of a second. Earlier in the Games, Shiny Abraham (Shiny Wilson) reached the semifinals of 800 metres with a then personal best of 2:04.69 seconds and became the first Indian woman to reach the semi-finals of an Olympic event.
1980 Games:
Hari chand Hero of games in is maiden appearance in the marathon clocked 2.22.08 to finished 31st
1976 Games :
1972 Games:
Edward Sequeira India Hero of the 1972 Games leading the last lap but finished 11th in 5000mts heats
1968 Games:
Bishambar India Hero of the 1968 games was beaten in the freestyle bantamweight on points by the Tokyo Olympic gold medalist
1960 Games:
Milka Singh India Hero of the 1960 games Missed a medal by one –tenth of a second despite a time faster than the then world record
1952 Games:
India won first medal as independent Nation when Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav won the wrestling bronze medal in the year 1952
1936 Games:
Legendary Dhyan Chand the captain of India 1936 hockey team and only personality who found a place among the Indian stamps this is only stamps issuied by postal department on Olympic personality in the year 1980 after his death
1920 Games:
Phadeppa Dareppa Chaugule is India's first Olympic marathon runner. He represented India in this game, and finished 19th with a timing of 2 hours 50 minutes 45.2 seconds. He hails from the town of Belgaum in Karnataka
1900 Games: