 A series of international athletic contests held
in a different country once every four years
•The Olympics include the summer games, winter
games, and Paralympics Games. Each type of games
is held every four years, with the winter and summer
games held two years apart from each other.
United States (2827 medals)

 1896 Athens, Greece
 1900 Paris, France
 1904 St. Louis, United States
 1908 London, England
 1912 Stockholm, Sweden
 1916 Cancelled (WWI – Berlin
Had Been Awarded)
 1920 Antwerp, Belgium
 1924 Paris, France
 1928 Amsterdam, Netherlands
 1932 Los Angeles, United States
 1936 Berlin, Germany
 1940 Cancelled (WWII – Tokyo
Had Been Awarded)
 1944 Cancelled (WWII – London
Had Been Awarded)
 1948 London, England
 1952 Helsinki, Finland
 1956 Melbourne, Australia
 1960 Rome, Italy
 1964 Tokyo, Japan
 1968 Mexico City, Mexico
 1972 Munich, West Germany
 1976 Montreal, Canada
 1980 Moscow, Soviet Union
 1984 Los Angeles, United States
 1988 Seoul, South Korea
 1992 Barcelona, Spain
 1996 Atlanta, United States
 2000 Sydney, Australia
 2004 Athens, Greece
 2008 Beijing, China
 2012 London, England
 2016 Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
 2020 Tokyo, Japan (Postponed To
2021 Due To The Coronavirus
Pandemic)

•Michael Phelps
•Mary Kom
•Neeraj Chopra
•Usain Bolt
•PV Sindhu
•Mirabai Chanu
 Michael Phelps
Michael Fred Phelps II is an American former competitive swimmer. He
is the most successful and most decorated Olympian of all time with
a total of 28 medals. Phelps also holds the all-time records for
Olympic gold medals, Olympic gold medals in individual events, and
Olympic medals in individual events.
He set 39 records during his historic career. Retired since 2016, he
now holds only four world records and four individual Olympic
records.
He doesn’t display his medals. He actually doesn’t often look
at them. He usually only takes them out when asked. He may
have also temporarily misplaced one for a while.

 Mary Kom
Chungneijang Mary Kom
Hmangte, popularly known as
Mary Kom, born in Manipur, is
an Indian Olympic boxer.
She started playing boxing at the
age of 15.
Mary Kom created history by
becoming the first woman ever
to win 6 World Championships.
She achieved the feat by
bagging the first position at
2002 Antalya, 2005 Podolsk,
2006 New Delhi, 2008 Ningbo
City, 2010 Bridgetown and
2018 New Delhi World
Championship events.
 Neeraj Chopra
Neeraj Chopra VSM is an Indian
track and field athlete who
competes in the javelin throw.
As of August 2021, he is
ranked as world No. 2 by the
World Athletics organisation. A
Junior Commissioned Officer in
the Indian Army, Chopra is the
first track and field athlete to
win a gold medal for India at
the Olympics.
Chopra won a gold medal in the
2016 IAAF World U20
Championships in Bydgoszcz,
Poland and set a world junior
record of 86.48 m, becoming
the first Indian athlete to
achieve a world record, at the
same time setting a new
national record.

 Usain Bolt
Usain St. Leo Bolt, OJ, CD, OLY is a
retired Jamaican sprinter, widely
considered to be the greatest
sprinter of all time. He is the
world record holder of 100
metres, 200 metres and 4 × 100
metres relay.
Usain Bolt set the current 100m
world record at the 2009 IAAF
World Championships, clocking
an incredible 9.58 seconds for the
feat.
Usain Bolt is a very popular figure
amongst sports fans and the
media. His achievements are so
remarkable, it got him nicknames
like ‘Bolt from the blue’ and
‘Lightning Bolt’.
 Pv Sindhu
Pusarla Venkata Sindhu is an Indian
professional badminton player.
Over the course of her career,
Pusarla has won medals at
multiple tournaments including
Olympics and on the BWF circuit
including a gold at the 2019
World Championships.
For more than 12 years, her father
would wake up at 3 am to take
her to Pullela Gopichand's
academy where she trained. The
distance they travelled was
around 60 kilometres twice a
day. "From Marredpally he used
to drop and pick her (Sindhu) up
from Gopichand's Academy at
Gachibowli, driving 60-km twice
a day.

 Mirabai Chanu
Saikhom Mirabai Chanu is an
Indian weightlifter. She won the
silver medal at the 2020 Tokyo
Olympics in Women's 49 kg
category. Mirabai Chanu has
won the World Championships
and multiple medals at the
Commonwealth Games. She
was awarded the Padma Shri by
the Government of India for her
contributions to the sport.
Mirabai Chanu, who created a
success story in Tokyo, had to
deal with depression after the
failure in the Rio Olympics.
The year 2017 was high in her
career when she became the
world champion.