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{{infobox country at games
| NOC = IND
| NOCname = [[Indian Olympic Association]]
| games = Summer Olympics
| year = 1952
| flagcaption = 
| oldcode = 
|website = 
| location = [[Helsinki]]
| competitors = 64 (60 men, 4 women)
| sports = 11
| flagbearer = [[Balbir Singh Sr.]]
| rank = 26
| gold = 1
| silver = 0
| bronze = 1
| officials = 
| appearances = auto
| app_begin_year = 1900
| app_end_year = 
| summerappearances = 
| winterappearances = 
| seealso = 
}}

[[India]] competed at the [[1952 Summer Olympics]] in [[Helsinki]], [[Finland]]. 64 competitors, 60 men and 4 women, took part in 42 events in 11 sports.<ref name="sports-reference">{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/IND/summer/1952/ |title=India at the 1952 Helsinki Summer Games |access-date=26 February 2015 |work=sports-reference.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141111160444/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/IND/summer/1952/ |archive-date=11 November 2014 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> This marked the second time India had competed as an independent republic.

==Medalists==

===Gold===
* [[K. D. Singh (field hockey)|Kunwar Digvijai Singh]] (c), [[Leslie Claudius]], [[Keshav Dutt]], [[Chinadorai Deshmutu]], [[Randhir Singh Gentle]],  [[Grahanandan Singh]], [[Ranganandhan Francis]], [[Jaswant Singh Rajput]], [[Balbir Singh Sr.]], [[Dharam Singh (field hockey, born 1919)|Dharam Singh]], [[Govind Perumal]], [[Raghbir Lal]], [[Udham Singh (field hockey)|Udham Singh]], [[Chaman Singh Gurung]] and [[Muniswamy Rajgopal]] &mdash; [[Field hockey at the 1952 Summer Olympics|Field hockey]], Men's Team Competition.

===Bronze===
* [[Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav|Khashaba Jadhav]] &mdash; [[Wrestling at the 1952 Summer Olympics|Wrestling]], Men's Freestyle Bantamweight

==Athletics==
{{main article|Athletics at the 1952 Summer Olympics}}

First Female Contingent

Athletics
*[[Mary D'Souza Sequeira|Mary Dsouza]]
*[[Nilima Ghose]]

==Boxing==
{{main article|Boxing at the 1952 Summer Olympics}}

'''Men's Flyweight:'''
* [[Sakti Mazumdar]]
:# First Round &ndash; Defeated [[Nguyen Van Cua]] of [[Vietnam]] (DNS)
:# Second Round &ndash; Lost to [[Han Soo-An]] of [[South Korea|Korea]] (0 - 3)

'''Men's Featherweight:'''
* [[Benoy Kumar Bose]]
:# First Round &ndash; Defeated [[Edson Brown]] of the [[United States]] (0 - 3)

'''Men's Welterweight:''' 
* [[Ron Norris]]
:# Second Round &ndash; Defeated [[Jacob Butula]] of [[Canada]] (TKO 3R)
:# Third Round &ndash; Lost to [[Victor Jörgensen]] of [[Denmark]] (0 - 3)

'''Men's Light Heavyweight:''' 
* [[Oscar Alfred Ward]]
:# First Round &ndash; Lost to [[Karl Kistner]] of [[Germany]] (KO)

==Cycling==
{{main article|Cycling at the 1952 Summer Olympics}}

=== Road Competition ===
'''Men's Individual Road Race (190.4&nbsp;km)'''
*[[Raj Kumar Mehra]] &mdash; did not finish (→ no ranking)
*[[Netai Bysack]] &mdash; did not finish (→ no ranking)
*[[Prodip Bose]] &mdash; did not finish (→ no ranking)
*[[Suprovat Chakravarty]] &mdash; did not finish (→ no ranking)

=== Track Competition ===
'''Men's 1.000m Time Trial'''
*[[Suprovat Chakravarty]]
:* Final &mdash; 1:26.0 (→ 27th and last place)

'''Men's 1.000m Sprint Scratch Race'''
*[[Netai Bysack]] &mdash; 24th place

==Field hockey==
{{main article|Field hockey at the 1952 Summer Olympics}}

==Football==
{{main article|Football at the 1952 Summer Olympics}}

==Gymnastics==
{{main article|Gymnastics at the 1952 Summer Olympics}}

==Shooting==
{{main article|Shooting at the 1952 Summer Olympics}}
Two shooters represented India in 1952.

;[[Shooting at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's 300 metre free rifle, three positions|300 m rifle, three positions]]
* [[Harihar Banerjee]]

;[[Shooting at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 metre rifle three positions|50 m rifle, three positions]]
* [[Harihar Banerjee]]

;[[Shooting at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 metre rifle, prone|50 m rifle, prone]]
* [[Harihar Banerjee]]
* [[Souren Choudhury]]

==Swimming==
{{main|Swimming at the 1952 Summer Olympics}}

;Men
<small>''Ranks given are within the heat.''</small>
{| class=wikitable style="font-size:90%;"
|-
!rowspan=2|Athlete
!rowspan=2|Event
!colspan=2|Heat
!colspan=2|Semifinal
!colspan=2|Final
|- style="font-size:95%"
!Time
!Rank
!Time
!Rank
!Time
!Rank
|-align=center
|align=left|[[Isaac Mansoor]]
|align=left|[[Swimming at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre freestyle|100 m freestyle]]
| 1:10.8
| 7
| colspan=4 | Did not advance
|-align=center
|align=left|[[Bijoy Barman]]
|rowspan=2 align=left|[[Swimming at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre backstroke|100 m backstroke]]
| 1:27.3
| 5
| colspan=4 | Did not advance
|-align=center
|align=left|[[Khamlillal Shah]]
| 1:18.3
| 7
| colspan=4 | Did not advance
|}

;Women
<small>''Ranks given are within the heat.''</small>
{| class=wikitable style="font-size:90%;"
|-
!rowspan=2|Athlete
!rowspan=2|Event
!colspan=2|Heat
!colspan=2|Semifinal
!colspan=2|Final
|- style="font-size:95%"
!Time
!Rank
!Time
!Rank
!Time
!Rank
|-align=center
|rowspan=2 align=left|[[Dolly Nazir]]
|align=left|[[Swimming at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre freestyle|100 m freestyle]]
| 1:24.6
| 7
| colspan=4 | Did not advance
|-align=center
|rowspan=2 align=left|[[Swimming at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metre breaststroke|200 m breaststroke]]
| 3:37.9
| 7
| colspan=4 | Did not advance
|-align=center
|align=left|[[Arati Saha]]
| 3:40.8
| 6
| colspan=4 | Did not advance
|}

==Water polo==

Birendra Basak • David Sopher • Kedar Shah • [[Isaac Mansoor]] • Sambhu Saha • [[Sachin Nag]] • [[Khamlillal Shah]] • Bijoy Barman • Jehangir Naegamwalla • Ran Chandnani (source: olympedia.org)

==Weightlifting==
{{main article|Weightlifting at the 1952 Summer Olympics}}

==Wrestling==
{{main article|Wrestling at the 1952 Summer Olympics}}
{{smalldiv|1=<nowiki/>
'''Key''':
* {{abbr|VT|Victory by Fall}} - [[Pin (amateur wrestling)|Victory by Fall]].
* {{abbr|Pt|Decision by Points}} - Decision by Points.
* {{abbr|Pd|Decision by Points (Judges Disagree)}} - Decision by Points but Judges disagree.
}}

;Men's freestyle
{|class="wikitable" style="font-size:90%"
!Athlete
!Event
!Round 1<br />Result
!Round 2<br />Result
!Round 3<br />Result
!Round 4<br />Result
!Round 5<br />Result
!Round 6<br />Result
!Round 7<br />Result
!Round 8<br />Result
!Rank
|-align=center
|align=left|[[Niranjan Das (wrestler)|Niranjan Das]]
|align=left|[[Wrestling at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle flyweight|−52 kg]]
|{{flagIOCathlete|[[Mahmoud Mollaghasemi]]|IRN|1952 Summer}}<br />'''L''' <sup>{{abbr|VT|Victory by Fall - 6m 32s}}</sup>
|{{flagIOCathlete|[[Heini Weber|H. Weber]]|GER|1952 Summer}}<br />'''L''' <sup>{{abbr|VT|Victory by Fall - 3m 15s}}</sup>
|colspan=6 {{n/a|Did not Advance}}
|−
|-align=center
|align=left|'''[[Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav]]'''
|align=left|[[Wrestling at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle bantamweight|−57 kg]]
|{{flagIOCathlete|[[Adrien Poliquin|A. Poliquin]]|CAN|1952 Summer}}<br />'''W''' <sup>{{abbr|VT|Victory by Fall - 14m 25s}}</sup>
|{{flagIOCathlete|[[Leonardo Basurto|P. L. Basurto]]|MEX|1952 Summer}}<br />'''W''' <sup>{{abbr|VT|Victory by Fall - 5m 20s}}</sup>
|{{flagIOCathlete|[[Ferdinand Schmitz|F. Schmitz]]|GER|1952 Summer}}<br />'''W''' <sup>{{abbr|Pt|Decision by Points : 2-1}}</sup>
|{{n/a}}
|{{flagIOCathlete|[[Rashid Mammadbeyov]]|URS|1952 Summer}}<br />'''L''' <sup>{{abbr|Pt|Decision by Points : 3-0}}</sup>
|{{flagIOCathlete|[[Shohachi Ishii]]|JPN|1952 Summer}}<br />'''L''' <sup>{{abbr|Pt|Decision by Points : 3-0}}</sup>
|colspan=2 {{n/a|Did not Advance}}
|{{bronze3}}
|-align=center
|align=left|[[Keshav Mangave]]
|align=left|[[Wrestling at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle featherweight|−62 kg]]
|{{n/a}}
|{{flagIOCathlete|[[Ignacio Lugo|I. Lugo]]|VEN|1952 Summer}}<br />'''WalkOver''' 
|{{flagIOCathlete|[[Nasser Givehchi]]|IRN|1952 Summer}}<br />'''L''' <sup>{{abbr|Pt|Decision by Points : 3-0}}</sup>
|{{flagIOCathlete|[[Armand Bernard (wrestler)|A. Bernard]]|CAN|1952 Summer}}<br />'''W''' <sup>{{abbr|VT|Victory by Fall - 14m 5s}}</sup>
|{{flagIOCathlete|[[Josiah Henson (wrestler)|Josiah Henson]]|USA|1952 Summer}}<br />'''L''' <sup>{{abbr|Pt|Decision by Points : 3-0}}</sup>
|colspan=3 {{n/a|Did not Advance}}
|4
|-align=center
|align=left|[[Shrirang Jadhav]]
|align=left|[[Wrestling at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle light heavyweight|−87 kg]]
|{{flagIOCathlete|[[Jan Theron|J. Theron]]|RSA|1952 Summer}}<br />'''L''' <sup>{{abbr|Pt|Decision by Points : 2-1}}</sup> 
|{{flagIOCathlete|[[August Englas|A. Englas]]|URS|1952 Summer}}<br />'''L''' <sup>{{abbr|VT|Victory by Fall - 58s}}</sup> 
|colspan=6 {{n/a|Did not Advance}}
|−
|}

==References==
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[[Category:Nations at the 1952 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:India at the Summer Olympics by year|1952]]


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