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First Indian to participate in Olympic games

  1. P T Usha

  2. N G Pritchard

  3. Khashaba Jadhav

  4. Vijender Singh
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Norman Gilbert Pritchard, an Anglo-Indian athlete, was the first Indian to participate in the Olympic Games at Paris 1900. He won two silver medals in athletics (200m hurdles and 200m sprint). This was before India's independence and the modern Olympic movement's formalization in India. P.T. Usha competed much later (1980s).

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