Indian Flagbearers at the Olympics
2. Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, Beijing 2008
At the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, Rathore won a Gold Medal and set a new Commonwealth Games Record of 192 targets out of 200.
Rathore shot into prominence when he won a silver medal in the 2004 Athens Olympics. He won the medal in the Men’s double Trap. Thus, Rathore became the first individual silver medallist of independent India.
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He went on to successfully defend his Commonwealth Champion title by winning the Gold Medal at the Melbourne Commonwealth Games in 2006. He also won Gold Medals in two World Shooting Championships, at Sydney in 2004 and Cairo in 2006.
Following his achievements, rathore was chosen as the flag bearer, for the Indian contingent, in the 2008 Olympics.
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