5 greatest individual performances by Indians at the Olympics

2.Sushil Kumar

To win an Olympic medal, it takes years of toil, determination and patience. Sushil Kumar is one of those fortunate ones, who has won not one, but two Olympic medals and that too, in successive editions of the Games.

In 2008, Sushil defeated Leonid Spiridonov in the bronze medal match and then 4 years later, lost out to Tatsuhiro Yonemitsu of Japan in the final to settle for the silver medal.

While he missed out on the Gold, it was, nevertheless a staggering effort from a man, who had firmly put Indian wrestling on the world map in 2008 and then further enhanced its reputation in 2012.