By: Amrit Santlani
Jul 16, 2024
Most heartbreaking fourth place finishes in Olympics
India have won a total of 35 medals in the history of the Olympics, but they could have won many more
Milkha Singh (1960 Rome)
Milkha Singh narrowly missed out on a bronze medal in the 1960 Rome Olympics finishing fourth by 0.1 seconds
PT Usha (1984 Los Angeles)
Similarly, PT Usha also finished 4th in the 400m hurdles final in LA 1984, missing bronze by 0.01 seconds
Kunjarani Devi (2004 Athens)
Weightlifter Kunjarani Devi lost an Olympic medal by just 10 kg, she totalled 190kg while the bronze medallist lifted 200kg
Leander Paes/Mahesh Bhupati (2004 Athens)
The legendary duo reached the 2004 Athens Olympics third-place match but they couldn’t find a way past Mario Ancic and Ivan Ljubicic of Croatia
Joydeep Karmakar (2012 London)
Joydeep Karmakar reached the London 2012 shooting event but his score of 699.1 fell narrowly short of 701.0 that won Slovenia’s Rajmond Debevec the bronze
Dipa Karmakar (2016 Rio)
Dipa Karmakar suffered a big heartbreak, she lost out on the bronze medal by just 0.15 points in the finals of the vault event
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Abhinav Bindra (2016 Rio)
India’s first individual gold medalist in 2010, Abhinav finished fourth in 2016 after a nail-biter, narrowly missing his second Olympic medal
Rohan Bopanna/Sania Mirza (2016 Rio)
The legendary Indian duo faced off against Czech Republic’s Lucie Hradecka and Radek Stepanek in the bronze medal match but Sania and Bopanna lost by 1-6, 5-7
Aditi Ashok (2020 Tokyo)
Despite having a ranking of 200 in the pro circuit, Aditi came agonisingly close to a bronze medal but had to settle for fourth place
Deepak Punia (2020 Tokyo)
In his maiden Olympics, Deepak Punia lost the bronze medal wrestling match against San Marino’s Myles Amine 2-4 in the men’s freestyle 86kg category
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