India at the 1951 Asian Games

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India participated and hosted the 1951 Asian Games held in the capital city , New Delhi from 4 to 11 March 1951. India was ranked second with 15 gold medals in this edition of the Asiad.^[1]

Sachin Nag's gold medal in the men's 100m freestyle swimming was the first ever gold for India at the Asian Games, and remains their only gold medal in Asian Games swimming events as of the conclusion of the 2022 Asian Games.

The India national football team won the gold medal in the men's football competition.

Medal table

Medals by discipline
Discipline	File:Gold medal icon.svg	File:Silver medal icon.svg	File:Bronze medal icon.svg	Total
Athletics	10	12	12	34
Cycling	0	1	2	3
Diving	2	1	1	4
Football	1	0	0	1
Swimming	1	1	4	6
Water polo	1	0	0	1
Weightlifting	0	1	1	2
Total	15	16	20	51

Medal winners^[2]

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Template:Gold medal	Lavy Pinto	Athletics	Men's 100 m
Template:Gold medal	Lavy Pinto	Athletics	Men's 200 m
Template:Gold medal	Ranjit Singh	Athletics	Men's 800 m
Template:Gold medal	Nikka Singh	Athletics	Men's 1500 m
Template:Gold medal	A. S. Bakshi Govind Singh Balwant Singh Karan Singh	Athletics	Men's 4 × 400 m relay
Template:Gold medal	Chota Singh	Athletics	Men's marathon
Template:Gold medal	Mahabir Prasad	Athletics	Men's 10000 m walk
Template:Gold medal	Bakhtawar Singh	Athletics	Men's 50 km walk
Template:Gold medal	Madan Lal	Athletics	Men's shot put
Template:Gold medal	Makhan Singh	Athletics	Men's discus throw
Template:Gold medal	K. P. Thakkar	Diving	Men's 3 m springboard
Template:Gold medal	K. P. Thakkar	Diving	Men's 10 m platform
Template:Gold medal	India national football team Berland Anthony Syed Khwaja Azizuddin A. M. Bachan Sunil Chatterjee Abhoy Ghosh D. N. Devine Jones Ahmed Khan G. Y. S. Laiq Sheikh Abdul Latif Loganathan Sailen Manna Sheoo Mewalal Santosh Nandy Muhammad Noor Chandan Singh Rawat P. B. A. Saleh Mohammad Abdus Sattar T. Shanmugham Runu Guha Thakurta Kenchappa Varadaraj Thenmaddom Varghese Pansanttom Venkatesh	Football	Men's team^[3]
Template:Gold medal	Sachin Nag	Swimming	Men's 100 m freestyle
Template:Gold medal	India men's national water polo team Jahan Ahir Ganesh Das D. Daver R. Dean Isaac Mansoor G. Rattansey Kanti Shah	Water polo	Men's team
Template:Silver medal	Marian Gabriel	Athletics	Men's 200 m
Template:Silver medal	A.S.Bakshi	Athletics	Men's 400 m
Template:Silver medal	Kulwant Singh	Athletics	Men's 800 m
Template:Silver medal	Pritam Singh	Athletics	Men's 5000 m
Template:Silver medal	Teja Singh	Athletics	Men's 400 m hurdles
Template:Silver medal	Lavy Pinto Marian Gabriel Ram Swaroop Alfred Shamin	Athletics	Men's 4×100 m relay
Template:Silver medal	B. Das	Athletics	Men's 50 km walk
Template:Silver medal	Baldev Singh	Athletics	Men's long jump
Template:Silver medal	Somnath Chopra	Athletics	Men's hammer throw
Template:Silver medal	Parsa Singh	Athletics	Men's javelin throw
Template:Silver medal	Roshan Mistry	Athletics	Women's 100 m
Template:Silver medal	Mary D'Souza Roshan Mistry Banoo Gulzar Pat Mendonca	Athletics	Women's 4×100 m relay
Template:Silver medal	Dhangar Lhanguard Raj Kumar Mehra Madan Mohan Gurdev Singh	Cycling	Men's team pursuit
Template:Silver medal	Ashu Dutt	Diving	Men's 3 m springboard
Template:Silver medal	Kanti Shah	Swimming	Men's 100 m backstroke
Template:Silver medal	Kamineni Eswara Rao	Weightlifting	Men's middle heavyweight 90 kg
Template:Bronze medal	Govind Singh	Athletics	Men's 400 m
Template:Bronze medal	Gurbachan Singh	Athletics	Men's 10000 m
Template:Bronze medal	Ajit Singh	Athletics	Men's 3000 m steeplechase
Template:Bronze medal	Surat Singh Mathur	Athletics	Men's marathon
Template:Bronze medal	Kesar Singh	Athletics	Men's 10000 m walk
Template:Bronze medal	Kishen Singh	Athletics	Men's hammer throw
Template:Bronze medal	Khurshid Ahmed	Athletics	Men's decathlon
Template:Bronze medal	Mary D'Souza	Athletics	Women's 200 m
Template:Bronze medal	Marie Semoes	Athletics	Women's high jump
Template:Bronze medal	Sylvia Gauntlet	Athletics	Women's long jump
Template:Bronze medal	Barbara Webster	Athletics	Women's shot put
Template:Bronze medal	Rohinton Noble	Cycling	Men's sprint
Template:Bronze medal	Netai Chand Bysack	Cycling	Men's 1 km time trial
Template:Bronze medal	T. T. Dand	Diving	Men's 10 m platform
Template:Bronze medal	Bimal Chandra	Swimming	Men's 400 m freestyle
Template:Bronze medal	Jehangir Naegamwalla	Swimming	Men's 200 m breaststroke
Template:Bronze medal	Isaac Mansoor Bimal Chandra Sambhu Saha Sachin Nag	Swimming	Men's 4 x 100 m freestyle relay
Template:Bronze medal	Kanti Shah Jehangir Naegamwalla Sachin Nag	Swimming	Men's 3 x 100 m medley relay
Template:Bronze medal	Dandamudi Rajagopal	Weightlifting	Men's heavyweight +90 kg

Aquatics

Diving

Athletes	Event	Final
Athletes	Event	Result	Rank
K. P. Thakkar	Men's 3 m springboard	371.25	Template:Gold1
Ashu Dutta	Men's 3 m springboard	327.20	Template:Silver2
K. P. Thakkar	Men's 10 m platform	362.05	Template:Gold1
TT Dand	Men's 10 m platform	276.60	Template:Bronze3

Water Polo

Two teams entered the event - India and Singapore

Team

Jahan Ahir
Ganesh Das
D. Daver
R. Dean
Isaac Mansoor
G. Rattansey
Kanti Shah

Gold medal match Template:Waterpolobox

Football

All times are India Standard Time (UTC+05:00)

References

↑ 1st Asian Games medal tally Template:Webarchive
↑ Asian Games 1951 Indian medal winners.
↑ The Golden Years of Indian Football, Majumdar, Rounak. www.chaseyoursport.com. Chase Your Sport(22 April 2019). Retrieved 28 January 2022.

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[1] 1st Asian Games medal tally Template:Webarchive

[2] Asian Games 1951 Indian medal winners.

[3] The Golden Years of Indian Football, Majumdar, Rounak. www.chaseyoursport.com. Chase Your Sport(22 April 2019). Retrieved 28 January 2022.

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India at the 1951 Asian Games

Medal table

Medal winners[2]