5 greatest individual performances by Indians at the Olympics

3.Karnam Malleswari

Up till the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, no Indian woman sportsperson had ever triumphed on the biggest stage.However, Karnam Malleswari rewrote history when at the millennium Olympics in Sydney, she won the bronze in weightlifting in the Women's 69kg category.

It was he second big win in two years, as in 1998, she won the silver medal at the Asian Games in Bangkok.

Only two woman athlete has triumphed at an Olympics since then with Mary Kom and Saina Nehwal winning the bronze at the 2012 edition in London.