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Who was the first individual athlete from independent India to win an Olympic medal?

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K. D. Jadhav was the first individual athlete from independent India to win an Olympic medal. He achieved this feat by winning a bronze medal in freestyle wrestling at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland.
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