View source for India at the 1932 Summer Olympics

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{{Infobox country at games
| NOC = IND
| NOCname = [[Indian Olympic Association]]
| games = Summer Olympics
| year = 1932
| flagcaption = Flag of [[British Raj|India]]
| oldcode = 
| website = {{url|https://olympic.ind.in }}
| location = [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]]
| competitors = 20 in 3 sport
| sports = 
| flagbearer = [[Lal Shah Bokhari]]
| rank = 19
| gold = 1
| silver = 0
| bronze = 0
| officials = 
| appearances = auto
| app_begin_year = 1900
| app_end_year = 
| summerappearances = 
| winterappearances = 
| seealso = 
}}

'''[[British Raj|India]]''' competed at the '''[[1932 Summer Olympics]]''' in [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]], [[United States]]. The Men's Field hockey team won their second consecutive gold.

== Athletics ==
4 Indian athletes, all men, competed across 5 events in the 1932 Olympics. 
{| class="wikitable"
|+
! rowspan="2" |Athlete
! rowspan="2" |Event
! colspan="2" |Heat
! colspan="2" |Semifinals
! colspan="2" |Finals
|-
!Result
!Rank
!Result
!Rank
!Result
!Rank
|-
| rowspan="2" |[[Bunoo Sutton]]
|100 m
|11.4 s
|4th
| colspan="4" |Did not advance
|-
|110 m Hurdles
|15.1 s
|3rd
|Unknown
|4th
| colspan="2" |Did not advance
|-
| rowspan="2" |[[Ronald Vernieux]]
|100 m
|11.0 s
|4th
| colspan="4" |Did not advance
|-
|200 m
|22.8 s
|4th
| colspan="4" |Did not advance
|-
|[[Mehar Chand Dhawan]]
|Triple Jump
| colspan="4" |N/A
|13.66m
|14th
|-
|Bunoo Sutton/Ronald Vernieux/
Mehar Chand Dhawan/[[Dickie Carr]]
|{{nowrap|4 × 100 m}}
| colspan="2" |N/A
|43.7 s
|5th
| colspan="2" |Did not advance
|}

== Field Hockey ==
Due to the effects of [[Great Depression|The Great Depression]] and the cost of travel to the United States, only 3 Field Hockey teams ended up competing at the Olympics: India, Japan and the hosts, the USA. The event then took place as a short group stage competition, with each team playing each opponent once. To finance their travel, the Indian team played exhibition matches at every stop on their long journey by sea to Los Angeles. Once there, none of the teams even came close to the ability of the Indians, as Japan were beaten 11-1 and America were thrashed 24–1 on 11 August 1932, in the deciding game. The team even rotated the entire squad between games just so that all the players would get a medal. Dickie (Richard) Carr competed in both Field Hockey and the {{nowrap|4 × 100 m}} events.

=== Team ===
[[Richard Allen (field hockey)|Richard Allen]], [[Muhammad Aslam (field hockey)|Muhammad Aslam]], [[Lal Bokhari|Lal Bokhari (c)]], [[Frank Brewin]], [[Richard Carr (field hockey)|Richard Carr]], [[Dhyan Chand]], [[Leslie Hammond]], [[Arthur Charles Hind|Arthur Hind]], [[Sayed Jaffar (field hockey)|Sayed Jaffar]], [[Masud Minhas]], [[Broome Pinniger]], [[Gurmit Singh Kullar]], [[Roop Singh]], [[William Sullivan (field hockey)|William Sullivan]], and [[Carlyle Tapsell]].

=== Results ===
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|source=[https://web.archive.org/web/20200418130459/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1932/HOK/mens-hockey-summary.html#results35546::none Sports Reference]
|update=complete

|team_order=IND, JPN, USA

|win_IND=2 |draw_IND=0 |loss_IND=0 |gf_IND=35|ga_IND=2
|win_JPN=1 |draw_JPN=0 |loss_JPN=1 |gf_JPN=10|ga_JPN=13
|win_USA=0 |draw_USA=0 |loss_USA=2 |gf_USA=3 |ga_USA=33|status_USA=H

|name_IND={{fh|IND|British}}
|name_JPN={{fh|JPN|1870}}
|name_USA={{fh|USA|1912}}

|pos_IND={{Gold1}}
|pos_JPN={{Silver2}}
|pos_USA={{Bronze3}}

|winpoints=1
}}</onlyinclude>

=== Matches ===
{{fieldhockeybox
|date =4 August 1932
|team1 = {{fh-rt|India|British}}
|score = 11–1<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bharatiyahockey.org/granthalaya/goal/1932/page9.htm|title=India vs. Japan|website=Bharatiyahockey.org|access-date=2 April 2019}}</ref>
|team2 = {{fh|Japan|1870}}
|goals1=[[Roop Singh]] (3)<br/>[[Gurmit Singh Kullar|Kullar]] (3)<br/> [[Richard Carr (field hockey)|Carr]] (1) <br/> [[Dhyanchand|Chand]] (4)
|goals2=[[Junzo Inohara|Inohara]] (1)
}}
----
{{fieldhockeybox
|date =11 August 1932
|team1 = {{fh-rt|India|British}}
|score = 24–1<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bharatiyahockey.org/granthalaya/goal/1932/page10.htm|title=India vs. USA|website=Bharatiyahockey.org|access-date=2 April 2019}}</ref>
|team2 = {{fh|United States|1912}}
|goals1=[[Roop Singh]] (10)<br/>[[Gurmit Singh Kullar|Kullar]] (5)<br/> [[Broome Pinniger|Pinniger]] (1) <br/> [[Dhyanchand|Chand]] (8)
|goals2=[[William Boddington|Boddington]] (1)
}}

==Medalists==
=== Gold===
* [[Richard Allen (field hockey)|Richard Allen]], [[Muhammad Aslam (field hockey)|Muhammad Aslam]], [[Lal Bokhari]], [[Frank Brewin]], [[Richard Carr (field hockey)|Richard Carr]], [[Dhyan Chand]], [[Leslie Hammond]], [[Arthur Charles Hind|Arthur Hind]], [[Sayed Jaffar (field hockey)|Sayed Jaffar]], [[Masud Minhas]], [[Broome Pinniger]], [[Gurmit Singh Kullar]], [[Roop Singh]], [[William Sullivan (field hockey)|William Sullivan]], and [[Carlyle Tapsell]].

==References==
{{Reflist}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060622162855/http://www.amateur-boxing.vip.interia.pl/Championships/OlympicGames2000.html Official Olympic Reports]
*[http://www.olympic.org/uk/athletes/results/search_r_uk.asp International Olympic Committee results database]
*[https://olympics.com/en/featured-news/indian-hockey-team-los-angeles-1932-olympics-gold-medal-dhyan-chand Indian hockey team's 1932 Olympics gold no less than a Hollywood blockbuster]

{{Nations at the 1932 Summer Olympics}}

[[Category:Nations at the 1932 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:India at the Summer Olympics by year|1932]]


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