Tokyo Olympics ( August 2021) Current affairs

 TOKYO  SUMMER OLYMPICS -2020

Tokyo Mascot ;- Miraitowa 

INDIA SUM UP 

Total Indian Participants/ contingents  = 228 

Medals = 07 ( 1 Gold Medal + 2 silver & 4 Bronze ) 

Gold:- Neeraj chopra (Javelin) - Haryana 

Silver :- Mirabhai Chanu ( women's 49kg weightlifting ) - Manipur 

 & 

 Men's Freestyle 57kg Wrestling : Ravi Dahiya - Haryana 

Bronze :-

Women's welterweight boxing :- Lovlina Borgohain (Ist   from Assam ) 

Women's Singles Badminton :- PV Sindhu ( Telangana ) 

Men's 65 kg freestyle Wrestling :- Banjrang Punia  ( Haryana ) 

Men's Hockey :- Indian Men's Hockey Team . ( Skipper - Manpreet Singh) 

Positon(India)  = 48th / 86  

 (Ist = USA (113- 39G, 41S & 33B )  2nd China :-88 M  ,3rd - Japan :58)

Motto of the Olympics  :-

 Faster, Higher , Stronger -Together 

United By Emotion 

Neeraj Chopra ( Javelin Thrower) Ranked at 2 after securing Gold medal at Tokyo Olympics 2020.

His score is 1315 and was behind German athlete Johannes Vetter  who is having the score of 1396. 

He only 2nd Indian to win Olympic Gold after Abhinav Bindra 

PV SINDHU :- Ist Indian women to win 2 Olympics medals ( Bronze + Silver ) in Tokyo Olympics . 

Pranati Nayak :- the sole representative at the women's artistic event at Tokyo Olympics 2020.Tokyo passed Flame of Hope to paris. 

Aditi Ashok ;- First  female Indian golfer to Qualify for the Tokyo Olympics 

Bhavani Devi ;- First female Fencer to Qualify for the Tokyo Olympics 

Flag Bearers (INDIAN) ;- MC Mary Kom & Manpreet Singh ( Hockey Skipper )-Opening Ceremony 

& Bajrang Punia ( Bronze-Medalist ) Flag-Bearer at closing ceremony. 

NEXT Olympics :-

2024 Paris , France 

2028 :- los Angeles ( US) 

2032:- Brisbane , Queensland , Australia 

2036 :- Ahmedabad , India