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

• Rabin Bhatta
• Benoy Bose
• Robert Cranston
• Mac Joachim
• Babu Lall
• John Nuttall
• Gene Raymond

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:

• KP Dhanraj
• SM Kaiser
• Anil Nandy
• Santosh Nandy
• TM Varghese "Papen"
• Sanjeeva Uchil
• BN Vajravelu

Weightlifting

• Daniel Pon Mony
• Dandamudi Rajagopal

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

• Anant Bhargava
• Nirmal Bhose
• Khashaba Jadhav
• Keshav Roy
• Banta Singh
• Sarjarao Suryavanshi

swim

• Bimal Chandra
• Dilip Mitra
• Prahtip Mitra
• Prafulla Mullick
• Khamlillal Shah
• Isaac Monsoor
• Sachin Nag

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 )