1936 Summer Olympics / Participant (India)

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British India took part in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin with a delegation of 27 athletes in four sports. With the gold medal they won, theyfinished 20th in the medaltable together with New Zealand .

At the opening ceremony, hockey player Dhyan Chand carried the flag in the stadium and he and the hockey team won the gold medal. The youngest Indian participant was 19 year old Peter Paul Fernandez and the oldest was 35 year old Cyril Michie . Both belonged to the hockey team that won the gold medal.

Participants by sport

Weightlifting

Athletes	competition	Tear		Bump		Military Press		total
		Weight	rank	Weight	rank	Weight	rank	Weight	rank
Men
U Zaw Weik	Class up to 75 kg	122.5 kg	15th	100.0 kg	11	87.5 kg	14th	310.0 kg	15th

hockey

indian hockey team

For the fifth time the hockey competition was held and for the third time behind India could win the gold medal. With Dhyan Chand and Richard Allen there were two players who became Olympic champions in 1928 and 1932. Carlyle Carrol Tapsell , Roop Singh Bais and Sayed Muhammad Jaffar became Olympic champions in 1932. The Indian team won the Olympic gold superiorly. The bad result was the 4-0 win against Hungary in the preliminary round and the team conceded their first and only goal in the final against the German Empire.

Squad

player	Richard James Allen Dhyan Chand Ali Iqtidar Shah Dara Lionel Emmett Peter Paul Fernandez Joseph Galibardy Earnest John Goodsir-Cullen Mohd Hussain Sayed Muhammad Jaffar Ahmed Sher Khan Sher Ahsan Mohd Khan Murza Nasir-ud-Din Masood Cyril James Michie Baboo Narsoo Nimal Joseph Phillip Shabban Shahab -ud-Din Garewal Gurcharan Singh Roop Singh Bais Calyle Carrol Tapsell

Results

Preliminary round	Hungary	04: 0 (2: 0)
	United States	07: 0 (3: 0)
	Japan	09: 0 (4: 0)
Semifinals	France	10: 0 (4: 0)
final	German Empire	08: 1 (1: 0)
placement	gold

athletics

Athletes	competition	leader		Quarter finals		Semifinals		final
		time	rank	time	rank	time	rank	time	rank
Men
Eric Whiteside	100 m	k. A.	5	eliminated
	200 m	k. A.	4th	eliminated
Gyan Bhalla	400 m	52.4 s	5	eliminated
	800 m	k. A.	8th	-		eliminated
Raunaq Singh Gill	5000 m	k. A.	15th	-				eliminated
	10.00 m	-						DNF
Arul Swami	marathon	-						3: 10: 44.0 h	37

Wrestling

British India took part in freestyle wrestling competitions with three athletes. Rashid Anwar started in welterweight, Karam Rasul in middleweight and Shankarrao Thorat in bantamweight.

Web links

• British India at the 1936 Summer Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )