– British-Indian Norman Pritchard won silver medals in 200m sprint and 200m hurdles in the 1900 Olympics in Paris
– Pritchard was born in Calcutta in 1875 and died in Los Angeles in 1929
– The International Olympic Committee lists him as Indian, but World Athletics credits his medals to Britain
– Pritchard moved to the United States to pursue a career in acting under the screen name Norman Trevor
– He is often described as the first Asian-born athlete to win an Olympic medal
– The Athletics Federation of India has included him in the Indian athletics’ ‘Hall of Fame’
– It is now settled that Pritchard competed as an Indian, even though the IAAF credits his medals to Great Britain