Ø It
was in 1924, in erstwhile Punjab, that the Indian chapter of the Olympic
movement was born.
Ø The
founder was G.D. Sondhi, the first Secretary of the Punjab Olympic Association.
Lt.Col H.L.O. Garrett, vice principal of Government College, Lahore, was the
President of the founder body.
Ø The
same year (1924), the country's first Olympic Games, now christened as National
Games, were organised in Lahore, the then capital of undivided Punjab.
National
Games in India
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Competition Name
|
Number
|
Year
|
Venue
|
Indian Olympic Games
|
1st
|
1924
|
Lahore
|
2nd
|
1926
|
Lahore
|
|
3rd
|
1928
|
Lahore
|
|
4th
|
1930
|
Allahabad
|
|
5th
|
1932
|
Madras
|
|
6th
|
1934
|
New Delhi
|
|
7th
|
1936
|
Lahore
|
|
8th
|
1938
|
Calcutta
|
|
National Games
|
9th
|
1940
|
Bombay
|
10th
|
1942
|
Patiala
|
|
11th
|
1944
|
Lahore
|
|
12th
|
1946
|
Lahore
|
|
13th
|
1948
|
Lucknow
|
|
14th
|
1952
|
Madras
|
|
15th
|
1953
|
Jabalpur
|
|
16th
|
1954
|
Delhi
|
|
17th
|
1956
|
Patiala
|
|
18th
|
1958
|
Cuttack
|
|
19th
|
1960
|
Delhi
|
|
20th
|
1962
|
Jabalpur
|
|
21st
|
1964
|
Calcutta
|
|
22nd
|
1966
|
Bangalore
|
|
23rd
|
1968
|
Madras
|
|
24th
|
1970
|
Cuttack
|
|
25th
|
1979
|
Hyderabad
|
|
National Games (New Format)
|
26th
|
1985
|
Delhi
|
27th
|
1987
|
Kerala
|
|
28th
|
1994
|
Maharashtra
|
|
29th
|
1997
|
Karnataka
|
|
30th
|
1999
|
Manipur
|
|
31st
|
2001
|
Punjab
|
|
32nd
|
2002
|
Hyderabad, Vizag
|
|
33rd
|
2007
|
Guwahati
|
|
34th
|
2011
|
Ranchi
|
|
35th
|
2015
|
Kerala
|
|
36th
|
2016
|
Goa
|
|
37th
|
2017
|
Raipur
|
|
38th
|
2018
|
Uttarakhand
|
|
Winter
National Games in India
|
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Number
|
Year
|
Venue
|
1st
|
1996
|
Gulmarg (J&K)
|
2nd
|
2000
|
Manali (Himachal Pradesh)
|
3rd
|
2002
|
Auli (Uttarakhand)
|
4th
|
2004
|
Gulmarg
|
5th
|
2008
|
Gulmarg
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