India at the 1948 Summer Olympics

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India competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics in Wembley Park, London, England. 79 competitors, all men, took part in 39 events in 10 sports.^[1] It was the first time that India competed as an independent nation at the Olympic Games.

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Indian Team in 1948

Medalists

Medals by sport
Sport	Template:Gold01	Template:Silver02	Template:Bronze03	Total
Field hockey	1	0	0	1
Total	1	0	0	1

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Template:Gold medal	Leslie Claudius Keshav Dutt Walter D'Souza Lawrie Fernandes Ranganathan Francis Gerry Glackan Akhtar Hussain Patrick Jansen Amir Kumar Kishan Lal Leo Pinto Jaswant Singh Rajput Latif-ur-Rehman Reginald Rodrigues Balbir Singh Sr. Randhir Singh Gentle Grahanandan Singh K. D. Singh Trilochan Singh Maxie Vaz	Field hockey	Men's Field hockey

Competitors

Note: All times mentioned on this page are in British Summer Time (BST). Indian Standard Time (IST) = BST + 4:30hrs.

Sport	Men	Events
Athletics	8	10
Boxing	7	7
Cycling	9	5
Field Hockey	20	1
Football	18	1
Swimming	7	5
Water polo	9	1
Weightlifting	2	2
Wrestling	6	6

Athletics

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Athlete	Event	Heat		Quarterfinals		Semifinals		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Eric Prabhakar	Men's 100 metres	11.0	2	?	6	Did not advance

Athlete	Event	Qualifying		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Jim Vickers	Men's 110 metres hurdles	14.7	1	?	4	Did not advance

Athlete	Event	Qualifying		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Sadhu Singh	Men's 10 kilometres walk	--	--	Did not advance

Athlete	Event	Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Sadhu Singh	Men's 50 kilometres walk	--	DNF

Athlete	Event	Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Chhota Singh	Men's marathon	--	DNF

Athlete	Event	Qualifying		Final
Athlete	Event	Score	Rank	Score	Rank
Gurnam Singh	Men's high jump	1.87	NP	1.80	18

Athlete	Event	Qualifying		Final
Athlete	Event	Score	Rank	Score	Rank
Baldev Singh	Men's long jump	7.000	11	Did not advance

Athlete	Event	Qualifying		Final
Athlete	Event	Score	Rank	Score	Rank
Henry Rebello	Men's triple jump	14.650	5	-	NM

Athlete	Event	Qualifying		Final
Athlete	Event	Score	Rank	Score	Rank
Nat Singh Somnath	Men's hammer throw	41.36	23	Did not advance

Boxing

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Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Rabin Bhatta	Flyweight	colspan=1 align=center Template:N/a	Template:FlagIOCathlete L KO1	Did not advance
Babu Lall	Bantamweight	Template:FlagIOCathlete W RSC1	Template:FlagIOCathlete L PTS	Did not advance
Benoy Bose	Featherweight	Template:FlagIOCathlete L PTS	Did not advance
Gene Raymond	Lightweight	Template:FlagIOCathlete L PTS	Did not advance
Robert Cranston	Welterweight	Template:FlagIOCathlete L PTS	Did not advance
John Nuttall	Middleweight	colspan=1 align=center Template:N/a	Template:FlagIOCathlete L PTS	Did not advance
Mac Joachim	Light heavyweight	Template:FlagIOCathlete L PTS	Did not advance

Cycling

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File:India-Cycle-Sporting-2-1948LondonOlympics-b.jpg

India cyclists 1948-Havewala, Bhoot, Saugar, others

Ten cyclists represented India in 1948

Individual road race

Team road race

Sprint

Rusi Mulla Feroze

Time trial

Rohinton Noble

Team pursuit

Also represented India: Netai Chand Bysack

Sohrab Bhoot and Nariman Saugar were administrators for the cycling team.

Field Hockey

Template:Main article The Indian field hockey team defeated the British team to win the country's first gold medal at the 1948 Summer Olympics. It was the country's first Olympic gold medal since India became independent.

Squad

Leslie Claudius
Keshav Dutt
Walter D'Souza
Lawrie Fernandes
Ranganathan Francis
Gerry Glackan
Akhtar Hussain
Patrick Jansen
Amir Kumar
Kishan Lal (c)
Leo Pinto
Jaswant Singh Rajput
Latif-ur-Rehman
Reginald Rodrigues
Balbir Singh Sr.
Randhir Singh Gentle
Grahanandan Singh
K. D. Singh (vc)
Trilochan Singh
Maxie Vaz

Group A matches

Rank	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts	Template:Flagicon	Template:Flagicon	Template:Flagicon	Template:Flagicon
1.	Template:FlagIOCteam	3	3	0	0	19	1	6	X	9:1	8:0	2:0
2.	Template:FlagIOCteam	3	1	1	1	5	12	3	1:9	X	1:1	3:2
3.	Template:FlagIOCteam	3	0	2	1	2	10	2	0:8	1:1	X	1:1
4.	Template:FlagIOCteam	3	0	1	2	3	6	1	0:2	2:3	1:1	X

Semi-finals

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Final

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Football

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Squad

Head coach: Balaidas Chatterjee

Pos.	Player	Date of Birth	Age	Caps	Club	Tournament games	Tournament goals	Minutes played	Sub off	Sub on	Cards yellow/red
MF	Talimeran Ao	Jan 28, 1918	30	?	Template:Flagicon Mohun Bagan A.C.	1	0	90	-	-	-
MF	A. Sattar Basheer	1924		?	Template:Flagicon Mysore	1	0	90	-	-	-
FW	Robi Das			?	Template:Flagicon Bhawanipore Club	1	0	90	-	-	-
FW	Ahmed Mohamed Khan	Dec 24, 1926	21	?	Template:Flagicon Mysore	1	0	90	-	-	-
DF	Saliendra Manna	Sep 1, 1924	23	?	Template:Flagicon Mohun Bagan A.C.	1	0	90	-	-	-
FW	Sahu Mewalal	Jul 1, 1926	22	?	Template:Flagicon Eastern Railway S.C.	1	0	90	-	-	-
DF	Taj Mohammed	1924		?	Template:Flagicon East Bengal	1	0	90	-	-	-
MF	Mahabir Prasad	1918		?	Template:Flagicon East Bengal	1	0	90	-	-	-
FW	Balaram Parab Ramchandra	1925		?	Template:Flagicon Bombay F.C.	1	0	90	-	-	-
FW	Sarangapani Raman	1920		?	Template:Flagicon Mysore	1	1	90	-	-	-
GK	Kenchappa V. Varada Raj	1923		?	Template:Flagicon Mysore	1	0	90	-	-	-
	- Stand-by players -
FW	K. P. Dhanraj			?	Template:Flagicon Mysore	0	0	0	-	-	-
MF	S. M. Kaiser			?	Template:Flagicon East Bengal	0	0	0	-	-	-
MF	Anil Nandy			?	Template:Flagicon Eastern Railway S.C.	0	0	0	-	-	-
FW	Santosh Nandy	1932		?	Template:Flagicon Eastern Railway S.C.	0	0	0	-	-	-
DF	T. M. Varghese "Papen"			?	Template:Flagicon Bombay F.C.	0	0	0	-	-	-
GK	Sanjeeva Uchil			?	Template:Flagicon ICL-Bengal Club, Bombay	0	0	0	-	-	-
MF	B. N. Vajravelu			?	Template:Flagicon Mysore	0	0	0	-	-	-

First round

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Swimming

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Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Sachin Nag	Men's 100 m freestyle	1:03.8	34	Did not advance
Isaac Mansoor	Men's 100 m freestyle	1:06.4	38	Did not advance
Dilip Mitra	Men's 100 m freestyle	1:06.9	39	Did not advance
Bimal Chandra	Men's 400 metre freestyle	5:38.6	?	Did not advance
Bimal Chandra	Men's 1500 metre freestyle	22:52.9	?	Did not advance
Khamlillal Shah	Men's 100 metre backstroke	1:19.9	?	Did not advance
Prahtip Mitra	Men's 100 metre backstroke	1:24.5	?	Did not advance
Prafulla Mullick	Men's 200 metre breaststroke	3:14.9	?	Did not advance

Water Polo

Template:Main article Indian water polo team ranked 9th in tournament.

Men's Team Competition

Squad

Gora Seal
Samarendra Chatterjee
Ajoy Chatterjee
Suhas Chatterjee
Dwarkadas Mukharji
Durga Das
Jamini Dass
Sachin Nag
Isaac Mansoor
Jahan Ahir

Round One

Group C matches

Rank	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	Pts	Template:Flagicon	Template:Flagicon	Template:Flagicon
1.	Template:FlagIOCteam	2	2	0	26	1	4	X	12:1	14:0
2.	Template:FlagIOCteam	2	1	1	8	16	2	1:12	X	7:4
3.	Template:FlagIOCteam	2	0	2	4	21	0	0:14	4:7	X

Round Two

Group H

Rank	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	Pts	Template:Flagicon	Template:Flagicon	Template:Flagicon
1.	Template:FlagIOCteam	2	2	0	17	3	4	X	5:2	12:1
2.	Template:FlagIOCteam	2	1	1	13	6	2	2:5	X	11:1
3.	Template:FlagIOCteam	2	0	2	2	23	0	1:12	1:11	X

Weightlifting

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Wrestling

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Men's freestyle

Athlete	Event	Round 1 Result	Round 2 Result	Round 3 Result	Round 4 Result	Round 5 Result
K. D. Jadhav	−52 kg	Template:FlagIOCathlete W ^{Template:Abbr}	Template:FlagIOCathlete W ^{Template:Abbr}	Template:FlagIOCathlete L ^{Template:Abbr}	colspan=2 Template:N/a	6
Nirmal Bose	−57 kg	Template:FlagIOCathlete L ^{Template:Abbr}	colspan=4 Template:N/a	−
S. Suryavanshi	−62 kg	Template:FlagIOCathlete L ^{Template:Abbr}	Template:FlagIOCathlete L ^{Template:Abbr}	colspan=3 Template:N/a	−
Banta Singh	−67 kg	Template:FlagIOCathlete L ^{Template:Abbr}	Template:FlagIOCathlete L ^{Template:Abbr}	colspan=3 Template:N/a	−
A. Bhargava	−73 kg	Template:FlagIOCathlete L ^{Template:Abbr}	Template:FlagIOCathlete W ^{Template:Abbr}	Template:FlagIOCathlete L ^{Template:Abbr}	colspan=2 Template:N/a	−
K. Roy	−79 kg	Template:FlagIOCathlete L ^{Template:Abbr}	Template:FlagIOCathlete L ^{Template:Abbr}	colspan=3 Template:N/a	−

References

↑ India at the 1948 London Summer Games. Retrieved 17 July 2014.

External links

sports-reference.com

Template:Nations at the 1948 Summer Olympics

[sports-reference-1] India at the 1948 London Summer Games. Retrieved 17 July 2014.

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India at the 1948 Summer Olympics

Contents

Medalists

Competitors

Athletics

Boxing

Cycling

Field Hockey

Football

Swimming

Water Polo

Men's Team Competition

Weightlifting

Wrestling

See also

References

External links