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  1. Who won the first silver medal for an individual event at the Olympics for India ?
    1. Maharaja Karni Singh
    2. Wilson Jones
    3. Major R.S. Rathore
    4. Leander Paes
Correct Option: C

Colonel Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore is an Indian shooter who won the silver medal in Men’s Double Trap at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. He is the first Indian (post independence) to win an individual silver, after Norman Pritchard, a British origin born in India, who won two silver medals at the 1900 Paris Olympics. Rathore’s silver was India’s best individual Olympic performance post Indian Independence.



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