Lila Ram was the first Indian (male or female) to win a Commonwealth Games Gold Medal; he won the 100kg wrestling event at the 1958 Cardiff Games.
The first gold medal won by an Indian woman was at the 1970 Asian Games in Bangkok when Kamaljeet Sandhu won the 400 meter run.
Kamaljit Sandhu, 1982, Bangkok
Kanwal Singh and Ami Ghia were the first Indian women to win a Commonwealth Games medal when they won the Badminton Doubles bronze medals at the 1978 Commonwealth Games.
That was Karnam Malleswari who won a bronze medal in weightlifting at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. As of the 2008 Games, she is the only Indian women to win a medal at the Olympics.
Leander Paes in men's singles at the 1996 Games in Atlanta.
That was Khashaba Jhadav who won a bronze medal in men's bantamweight class freestyle wrestling at the 1952 Summer Games in Helsinki.
Karnam Malleswari won a bronze medal in women's 69 kg weightlifting at the 2000 Summer Games in Sydney. She is the first Indian woman to win an Olympic medal.
Abhinav Bindra and Gagan Narang were the first Indian athletes to win India's first Gold Medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games, when both men won the Men's 10m Air Rifle (pairs) at the CRPF Campus.
the first medal she won was a gold medal.
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Saina Nehwag won India's final Gold Medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games, when she won the Women's Singles in Badminton.At the 2012 London Olympics, she took home a Bronze Medal in the same event becoming the first Indian player to win a Badminton Olympic Medal.