Q. Who is the first Indian to win two consecutive Olympic medals in the individual items?
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Sushil Kumar Solanki is an Indian freestyle wrestler. Competing in the 66 kg weight division he won the 2010 world title, a silver medal at the 2012 London Olympics and a bronze medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, which made him the only Indian to win two individual Olympic medals.
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Sushil Kumar lost to Tatsuhiro Yonemitsu in the final and ended up with silver, becoming India’s only individual two-time Olympic medallist. Barely known before the Games, shooter Vijay Kumar ensured his name in the record books with a silver medal in the 25m rapid pistol.
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