With Abhinav Bindra showing his heroic by winning a GOLD medal for india, others haven't disappointed this time.
Sushil Kumar won Bronze for India first time after 1952 in wresting.
Vijender Kumar also assured India of yet another medal when he entered the semi-finals of the middleweight (75kg) category on Wednesday
With the present medal tally India is at rank 42 which will be improved once Vijender's medal with join the India's medal tally. ;) Complete medal tally in Olympics 2008
This is so far BEST ever Olympics performance from India.
India has never returned with 3 medals from any Olympics.
Previous best was back in 1952 when India had won 2 Olympic medals in the 1952 Helsinki Games, where the hockey team had won the gold medal and wrestler KD Jadhav had won a bronze medal, a record which had stood for 56 long years.
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