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{{infobox country at games
| NOC = IND
| NOCname = [[Indian Olympic Association]]
| games = Summer Olympics
| year = 1900
| flagcaption = Flag of [[British Raj|India]]
| oldcode =
| website = {{url|https://olympic.ind.in }}
| location = [[Paris]]
| competitors = 1
| sports = 1
| flagbearer =
| rank = 19
| gold = 0
| silver = 2
| bronze = 0
| officials =
| appearances = auto
| app_begin_year = 1900
| app_end_year =
| summerappearances =
| winterappearances =
| seealso =
}}

One athlete from '''[[British Raj|India]]''' competed at the '''[[1900 Summer Olympics]]''' in Paris, France, thereby being the nation's first appearance at the modern Olympic Games. Olympic historians tend to separate Indian results from British ones despite India's lack of independence, in a similar manner to the separation of results of competitors from Australia before 1901. One athlete, [[Norman Pritchard]], represented India in 1900.

In 2005, the [[IAAF]] published the official track and field statistics for the [[2004 Summer Olympics]]. In the historical records section Pritchard was listed as having competed for Great Britain in 1900. Research by Olympic historians has shown that Pritchard was chosen to represent Great Britain after competing in the British AAA championship in June 1900.<ref name=status>"David Wallechinsky - ''The Complete Book of the Olympics'' Aurum Press 2000</ref>
The [[IOC]] still regard Pritchard as having competed for India.

Pritchard competed in athletics, entering five events and taking second place in two of them. Until [[2020 Summer Olympics|2020]] when [[Neeraj Chopra]] won the gold medal in the [[Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's javelin throw|men's javelin throw]], Pritchard was the sole Olympic athletics medallist to be officially recorded as having represented India.

==Medalists==
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:95%"
|-
! Medal
! Name
! Sport
! Event
! Date
|-
| {{silver02}} || {{sortname|Norman|Pritchard}} || [[Athletics at the 1900 Summer Olympics|Athletics]] || [[Athletics at the 1900 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metres|Men's 200 m]] || {{dts||7|22}}
|-
| {{silver02}} || {{sortname|Norman|Pritchard}} || [[Athletics at the 1900 Summer Olympics|Athletics]] || [[Athletics at the 1900 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metres hurdles|Men's 200 metres hurdles]] || {{dts||7|16}}
|}

==Results by event==
===Athletics===
{{Main|Athletics at the 1900 Summer Olympics}}

{| class="wikitable sortable"
!rowspan="2"|Athlete
!rowspan="2"|Event
!colspan="2"|Heat
!colspan="2"|Semifinal
!colspan="2"|Repechage
!colspan="2"|Final
|-
!Result
!Rank
!Result
!Rank
!Result
!Rank
!Result
!Rank
|-
|rowspan=5|'''[[Norman Pritchard]]'''
|[[Athletics at the 1900 Summer Olympics – Men's 60 metres|60 m]]
|align="center"|7.1
|align="center"|3
|align="center" colspan=4|n/a
|align="center" colspan=2|Did not advance
|-
|[[Athletics at the 1900 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metres|100 m]]
|align="center"|11.4
|align="center"|1 '''Q'''
|align="center"|Unknown
|align="center"|3
|align="center"|11.0
|align="center"|2
|align="center" colspan=2|Did not advance
|-
|[[Athletics at the 1900 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metres|200 m]]
|align="center"|Unknown
|align="center"|2 '''Q'''
|align="center" colspan=4|n/a
|align="center"|22.8
|align="center"|{{silver02}}
|-
|[[Athletics at the 1900 Summer Olympics – Men's 110 metres hurdles|110 m hurdles]]
|align="center"|16.6
|align="center"|1 '''Q'''
|align="center" colspan=4|n/a
|align="center" colspan=2|Did not finish
|-
|[[Athletics at the 1900 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metres hurdles|200 m hurdles]]
|align="center"|26.8
|align="center"|1 '''Q'''
|align="center" colspan=4|n/a
|align="center"|26.0
|align="center"|{{silver02}}
|}

==References==
{{reflist}}
{{refbegin}}
*{{cite journal |title=Who was Norman Pritchard? |author=Ian Buchanan |publisher=International Society of Olympic Historians |journal=Journal of Olympic History |pages=27–28 |issue=January 2000 |url=http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/JOH/JOHv8n1/johv8n1i.pdf |format=PDF }}
{{refend}}

==External links==
*[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article431574.ece Times article - March 19 2005 ''"India defiant over Olympic medals"'']

{{Nations at the 1900 Summer Olympics}}

[[Category:Nations at the 1900 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:India at the Summer Olympics by year|1900]]
[[Category:1900 in Indian sport|Olympics]]

India at the 1900 Summer Olympics - Revision history

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