XXVII Olympics: Discus

Discus, one of four Olympic sports on the stamps for the Sydney Games, 2000.

Technical data Notes Condition

Date of issue September 17, 2000

Denomination Rs. 3

Quantity printed 3000000

Printer Calcutta Security Printers Ltd

Perforation comb 13

Watermark No Watermark

Colours Multicolor

Printing process Offset Lithography

Credit Shri Kamleshwar Singh

Catalogue codes Michel IN 1778 Stamp Number IN 1843 Yvert et Tellier IN 1544 Stanley Gibbons IN 1947

Themes Athletes, Athletics, Discus-throwing, Olympic Games, Sports

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On the Stamp

A discus thrower in a yellow vest about to release the discus, with the Olympic rings, on the ₹3 stamp.

XXVII Olympics

India Post issued four stamps, at ₹3, ₹6, ₹10 and ₹15, on 17 September 2000 for the XXVII Olympics, the Sydney Games, held from 15 September to 1 October 2000: the second Summer Games in Australia, after Melbourne in 1956. At Sydney the weightlifter Karnam Malleswari became the first Indian woman to win an Olympic medal, India’s only medal of those Games. India Post’s brochure for this issue is not online, so this text draws on Wikipedia and on the stamps themselves.