India won their first track medal since Milkha Singh, father of golfer Jeev Milkha Singh, won the men's 400m in 1958 when Kavita Raut took bronze in the women's 10, 000m .
With features typical of the Konkani people from southwest India (light brown complexion and often green, grey or blue eyes after centuries of interaction with European traders), Raut "could be from anywhere, " says Bidapa.