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{{infobox country at games<br />
| NOC = IND<br />
| NOCname = [[Indian Olympic Association]]<br />
| games = Summer Olympics<br />
| year = 1952<br />
| flagcaption = <br />
| oldcode = <br />
|website = <br />
| location = [[Helsinki]]<br />
| competitors = 64 (60 men, 4 women)<br />
| sports = 11<br />
| flagbearer = [[Balbir Singh Sr.]]<br />
| rank = 26<br />
| gold = 1<br />
| silver = 0<br />
| bronze = 1<br />
| officials = <br />
| appearances = auto<br />
| app_begin_year = 1900<br />
| app_end_year = <br />
| summerappearances = <br />
| winterappearances = <br />
| seealso = <br />
}}<br />
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[[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.<br />
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==Medalists==<br />
<br />
===Gold===<br />
* [[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.<br />
<br />
===Bronze===<br />
* [[Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav|Khashaba Jadhav]] &mdash; [[Wrestling at the 1952 Summer Olympics|Wrestling]], Men's Freestyle Bantamweight<br />
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==Athletics==<br />
{{main article|Athletics at the 1952 Summer Olympics}}<br />
<br />
First Female Contingent<br />
<br />
Athletics<br />
*[[Mary D'Souza Sequeira|Mary Dsouza]]<br />
*[[Nilima Ghose]]<br />
<br />
==Boxing==<br />
{{main article|Boxing at the 1952 Summer Olympics}}<br />
<br />
'''Men's Flyweight:'''<br />
* [[Sakti Mazumdar]]<br />
:# First Round &ndash; Defeated [[Nguyen Van Cua]] of [[Vietnam]] (DNS)<br />
:# Second Round &ndash; Lost to [[Han Soo-An]] of [[South Korea|Korea]] (0 - 3)<br />
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'''Men's Featherweight:'''<br />
* [[Benoy Kumar Bose]]<br />
:# First Round &ndash; Defeated [[Edson Brown]] of the [[United States]] (0 - 3)<br />
<br />
'''Men's Welterweight:''' <br />
* [[Ron Norris]]<br />
:# Second Round &ndash; Defeated [[Jacob Butula]] of [[Canada]] (TKO 3R)<br />
:# Third Round &ndash; Lost to [[Victor Jörgensen]] of [[Denmark]] (0 - 3)<br />
<br />
'''Men's Light Heavyweight:''' <br />
* [[Oscar Alfred Ward]]<br />
:# First Round &ndash; Lost to [[Karl Kistner]] of [[Germany]] (KO)<br />
<br />
==Cycling==<br />
{{main article|Cycling at the 1952 Summer Olympics}}<br />
<br />
=== Road Competition ===<br />
'''Men's Individual Road Race (190.4&nbsp;km)'''<br />
*[[Raj Kumar Mehra]] &mdash; did not finish (→ no ranking)<br />
*[[Netai Bysack]] &mdash; did not finish (→ no ranking)<br />
*[[Prodip Bose]] &mdash; did not finish (→ no ranking)<br />
*[[Suprovat Chakravarty]] &mdash; did not finish (→ no ranking)<br />
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=== Track Competition ===<br />
'''Men's 1.000m Time Trial'''<br />
*[[Suprovat Chakravarty]]<br />
:* Final &mdash; 1:26.0 (→ 27th and last place)<br />
<br />
'''Men's 1.000m Sprint Scratch Race'''<br />
*[[Netai Bysack]] &mdash; 24th place<br />
<br />
==Field hockey==<br />
{{main article|Field hockey at the 1952 Summer Olympics}}<br />
<br />
==Football==<br />
{{main article|Football at the 1952 Summer Olympics}}<br />
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==Gymnastics==<br />
{{main article|Gymnastics at the 1952 Summer Olympics}}<br />
<br />
==Shooting==<br />
{{main article|Shooting at the 1952 Summer Olympics}}<br />
Two shooters represented India in 1952.<br />
<br />
;[[Shooting at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's 300 metre free rifle, three positions|300 m rifle, three positions]]<br />
* [[Harihar Banerjee]]<br />
<br />
;[[Shooting at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 metre rifle three positions|50 m rifle, three positions]]<br />
* [[Harihar Banerjee]]<br />
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;[[Shooting at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 metre rifle, prone|50 m rifle, prone]]<br />
* [[Harihar Banerjee]]<br />
* [[Souren Choudhury]]<br />
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==Swimming==<br />
{{main|Swimming at the 1952 Summer Olympics}}<br />
<br />
;Men<br />
<small>''Ranks given are within the heat.''</small><br />
{| class=wikitable style="font-size:90%;"<br />
|-<br />
!rowspan=2|Athlete<br />
!rowspan=2|Event<br />
!colspan=2|Heat<br />
!colspan=2|Semifinal<br />
!colspan=2|Final<br />
|- style="font-size:95%"<br />
!Time<br />
!Rank<br />
!Time<br />
!Rank<br />
!Time<br />
!Rank<br />
|-align=center<br />
|align=left|[[Isaac Mansoor]]<br />
|align=left|[[Swimming at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre freestyle|100 m freestyle]]<br />
| 1:10.8<br />
| 7<br />
| colspan=4 | Did not advance<br />
|-align=center<br />
|align=left|[[Bijoy Barman]]<br />
|rowspan=2 align=left|[[Swimming at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre backstroke|100 m backstroke]]<br />
| 1:27.3<br />
| 5<br />
| colspan=4 | Did not advance<br />
|-align=center<br />
|align=left|[[Khamlillal Shah]]<br />
| 1:18.3<br />
| 7<br />
| colspan=4 | Did not advance<br />
|}<br />
<br />
;Women<br />
<small>''Ranks given are within the heat.''</small><br />
{| class=wikitable style="font-size:90%;"<br />
|-<br />
!rowspan=2|Athlete<br />
!rowspan=2|Event<br />
!colspan=2|Heat<br />
!colspan=2|Semifinal<br />
!colspan=2|Final<br />
|- style="font-size:95%"<br />
!Time<br />
!Rank<br />
!Time<br />
!Rank<br />
!Time<br />
!Rank<br />
|-align=center<br />
|rowspan=2 align=left|[[Dolly Nazir]]<br />
|align=left|[[Swimming at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre freestyle|100 m freestyle]]<br />
| 1:24.6<br />
| 7<br />
| colspan=4 | Did not advance<br />
|-align=center<br />
|rowspan=2 align=left|[[Swimming at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metre breaststroke|200 m breaststroke]]<br />
| 3:37.9<br />
| 7<br />
| colspan=4 | Did not advance<br />
|-align=center<br />
|align=left|[[Arati Saha]]<br />
| 3:40.8<br />
| 6<br />
| colspan=4 | Did not advance<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Water polo==<br />
<br />
Birendra Basak • David Sopher • Kedar Shah • [[Isaac Mansoor]] • Sambhu Saha • [[Sachin Nag]] • [[Khamlillal Shah]] • Bijoy Barman • Jehangir Naegamwalla • Ran Chandnani (source: olympedia.org)<br />
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==Weightlifting==<br />
{{main article|Weightlifting at the 1952 Summer Olympics}}<br />
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==Wrestling==<br />
{{main article|Wrestling at the 1952 Summer Olympics}}<br />
{{smalldiv|1=<nowiki/><br />
'''Key''':<br />
* {{abbr|VT|Victory by Fall}} - [[Pin (amateur wrestling)|Victory by Fall]].<br />
* {{abbr|Pt|Decision by Points}} - Decision by Points.<br />
* {{abbr|Pd|Decision by Points (Judges Disagree)}} - Decision by Points but Judges disagree.<br />
}}<br />
<br />
;Men's freestyle<br />
{|class="wikitable" style="font-size:90%"<br />
!Athlete<br />
!Event<br />
!Round 1<br />Result<br />
!Round 2<br />Result<br />
!Round 3<br />Result<br />
!Round 4<br />Result<br />
!Round 5<br />Result<br />
!Round 6<br />Result<br />
!Round 7<br />Result<br />
!Round 8<br />Result<br />
!Rank<br />
|-align=center<br />
|align=left|[[Niranjan Das (wrestler)|Niranjan Das]]<br />
|align=left|[[Wrestling at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle flyweight|−52 kg]]<br />
|{{flagIOCathlete|[[Mahmoud Mollaghasemi]]|IRN|1952 Summer}}<br />'''L''' <sup>{{abbr|VT|Victory by Fall - 6m 32s}}</sup><br />
|{{flagIOCathlete|[[Heini Weber|H. Weber]]|GER|1952 Summer}}<br />'''L''' <sup>{{abbr|VT|Victory by Fall - 3m 15s}}</sup><br />
|colspan=6 {{n/a|Did not Advance}}<br />
|−<br />
|-align=center<br />
|align=left|'''[[Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav]]'''<br />
|align=left|[[Wrestling at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle bantamweight|−57 kg]]<br />
|{{flagIOCathlete|[[Adrien Poliquin|A. Poliquin]]|CAN|1952 Summer}}<br />'''W''' <sup>{{abbr|VT|Victory by Fall - 14m 25s}}</sup><br />
|{{flagIOCathlete|[[Leonardo Basurto|P. L. Basurto]]|MEX|1952 Summer}}<br />'''W''' <sup>{{abbr|VT|Victory by Fall - 5m 20s}}</sup><br />
|{{flagIOCathlete|[[Ferdinand Schmitz|F. Schmitz]]|GER|1952 Summer}}<br />'''W''' <sup>{{abbr|Pt|Decision by Points : 2-1}}</sup><br />
|{{n/a}}<br />
|{{flagIOCathlete|[[Rashid Mammadbeyov]]|URS|1952 Summer}}<br />'''L''' <sup>{{abbr|Pt|Decision by Points : 3-0}}</sup><br />
|{{flagIOCathlete|[[Shohachi Ishii]]|JPN|1952 Summer}}<br />'''L''' <sup>{{abbr|Pt|Decision by Points : 3-0}}</sup><br />
|colspan=2 {{n/a|Did not Advance}}<br />
|{{bronze3}}<br />
|-align=center<br />
|align=left|[[Keshav Mangave]]<br />
|align=left|[[Wrestling at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle featherweight|−62 kg]]<br />
|{{n/a}}<br />
|{{flagIOCathlete|[[Ignacio Lugo|I. Lugo]]|VEN|1952 Summer}}<br />'''WalkOver''' <br />
|{{flagIOCathlete|[[Nasser Givehchi]]|IRN|1952 Summer}}<br />'''L''' <sup>{{abbr|Pt|Decision by Points : 3-0}}</sup><br />
|{{flagIOCathlete|[[Armand Bernard (wrestler)|A. Bernard]]|CAN|1952 Summer}}<br />'''W''' <sup>{{abbr|VT|Victory by Fall - 14m 5s}}</sup><br />
|{{flagIOCathlete|[[Josiah Henson (wrestler)|Josiah Henson]]|USA|1952 Summer}}<br />'''L''' <sup>{{abbr|Pt|Decision by Points : 3-0}}</sup><br />
|colspan=3 {{n/a|Did not Advance}}<br />
|4<br />
|-align=center<br />
|align=left|[[Shrirang Jadhav]]<br />
|align=left|[[Wrestling at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle light heavyweight|−87 kg]]<br />
|{{flagIOCathlete|[[Jan Theron|J. Theron]]|RSA|1952 Summer}}<br />'''L''' <sup>{{abbr|Pt|Decision by Points : 2-1}}</sup> <br />
|{{flagIOCathlete|[[August Englas|A. Englas]]|URS|1952 Summer}}<br />'''L''' <sup>{{abbr|VT|Victory by Fall - 58s}}</sup> <br />
|colspan=6 {{n/a|Did not Advance}}<br />
|−<br />
|}<br />
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==References==<br />
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{{Nations at the 1952 Summer Olympics}}<br />
{{Country at games navbox|India|Olympics}}<br />
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{{DEFAULTSORT:India At The 1952 Summer Olympics}}<br />
[[Category:Nations at the 1952 Summer Olympics]]<br />
[[Category:India at the Summer Olympics by year|1952]]<br />
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