1948 Summer Olympics / Participant (India)
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India took part in the 1948 Summer Olympics in London with a delegation of 77 male athletes in 38 competitions in nine sports. There were also the painters AG Chagale and KS Kulkarni , who took part in the art competitions. The only medal success was achieved by the hockey team, which won the tournament. It was India's first participation in the Summer Olympics as an independent nation.
Participants by sport
Boxing
Soccer
- Round of 16
- Talimers Ao
- Sattar Basheer
- Robi Das
- Ahmed Muhammad Khan
- Sailen Manna
- Sahu Mewalal
- Taj Mohammed
- Ramchandra Parab
- Mahabir Prasat
- Sarangapari Raman
- KV Varadaraj
Without any effort:
Weightlifting
hockey
- gold
- Leslie Claudius
- Walter de Sousa
- Keshav Dutt
- Lawrie Fernandes
- Ranganathan Francis
- Gerry Glackan
- Akhtar Hussain
- Pat Jansen
- Amir Kumar
- Kishan Lal
- Leo Pinto
- Jaswant Singh Rajput
- Latifur Rehman
- Reginald Rodrigues
- Tarlochan Singh Bawa
- Randhir Singh Gentle
- Balbir Singh
- Grahanandan Singh
- Kunwar Digvijay Singh
- Maxie Vaz
athletics
- Eric Prabhakar
- Henry Rebello
- Nat Singh Somnath
- Baldev Singh
- Chhota Singh
- Gurnam Singh
- Sadhu Singh
- Jim Vickers
Cycling
- Jehangoo Amin
- Adi Havewala
- Malcolm Havladar
- Raj Kumar Mehra
- Eruch Mistry
- Rusi Mulla Feroze
- Rohinton Noble
- Homi Powri
- Piloo sarkari
Wrestling
swim
Water polo
- 2nd round
- Jahan Ahir
- Samarandra Chatterjee
- Suha's Chatterjee
- Durga Das
- Janini Dass
- Isaac Monsoor
- Dwarkadas Murarji
- Sachin Nag
- Gora Seal
Web links
- Indian Olympic team from 1948 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )