1956 Summer Olympics / Participant (India)

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India took part in the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, with a delegation of 59 athletes, 58 men and one woman, in 32 competitions in eight sports.

It was India's ninth participation in the Summer Olympics since 1900 .

The youngest athlete was soccer player Tulsidas Balaram at 19 years and 359 days , and the oldest athlete was weight lifter Dandamudi Rajagopal (40 years and 42 days).

Flag bearer

Hockey player Balbir Singh carried the flag of India during the opening ceremony at Melbourne's Olympic Stadium .

Medals

With a gold medal won, the Indian team finished 24th in the medal table .

gold

Names	sport	competition
Leslie Claudius , Ranganathan Francis , Haripal Kaushik , Amir Kumar , Raghbir Lal , Shankar Laxman , Govind Perumal , Amit Singh , Bakshish Singh , Balbir Singh , Balkishan Singh , Gurdev Singh , Hardyal Singh , Udham Singh , Raghbir Singh Bhola , Randhir Singh Gentle and Charles Stephen	hockey	Men's

Participants by sport

Soccer

Men's

• Results

  Round of 16: entered the quarter-finals without a fight

  Quarterfinals: 4-2 win over Australia

  Goals: Neville D'Souza (3 ×), Krishna Kittu

  Semi-finals: 1: 4 defeat against Yugoslavia

  Goals: Neville D'Souza

  Bronze match: 3-0 defeat against Bulgaria

  Fourth place

• Squad

  Hussain Ahmed

  Sayed Khwaja Aziz-ud-Din

  Tulsidas Balaram

  Pradip Kumar Banerjee

  Samar Banerjee

  Neville D'Souza

  Muhammad Kannayan

  Mariappa Kempaiah

  Krishna Kittu

  Sheikh Abdul Latif

  Nikhil Nandy

  Subramaniam Narayan

  Muhammad Noor

  Krishna Pal

  Abdul Rehman

  Muhammad Salaam

  Peter Thangaraj

Weightlifting

Men's

• Valli Asari Mookan
  • Bantamweight

  Final: 272.5 kg, twelfth place

  Military press: 80.0 kg, twelfth place

  Snatch: 80.0 kg, 13th place

  Push: 112.5 kg, eleventh place

• Dandamudi Rajagopal
  • Heavyweight

  Final: 360.0 kg, ninth place

  Military press: 122.5 kg, ninth place

  Snatch: 105.0 kg, ninth place

  Push: 132.5 kg, ninth place

• Kamineni Eswara Rao
  • Middle heavyweight

  Final: 380.0 kg, eleventh place

  Military press: 122.5 kg, tenth place

  Tear: 110.0 kg, twelfth place

  Push: 147.5 kg, tenth place

hockey

Men's

• Results

  Main round: Group A, six points, 36-0 goals, first place, qualified for the final

  14-0 win against Afghanistan

  Gates: Balbir Singh (5 ×), Udham Singh (4 ×), Randhir Singh Gentle (3 ×), Gurdev Singh (2 ×)

  16-0 win over the United States of America

  Gates: Udham Singh (7 ×), Hardyal Singh (5 ×), Gurdev Singh (3 ×), Leslie Claudius

  6-0 win against Singapore

  Goals: Udham Singh (2 ×), Charles Stephen (2 ×), Randhir Singh Gentle, Hardyal Singh

  Semi-finals: 1-0 win against Germany

  Goals: Udham Singh

  Final: 1-0 win against Pakistan

  Goals: Randhir Singh Gentle

  Rank one

• Squad

  Leslie Claudius

  Ranganandhan Francis

  Haripal Kaushik

  Amir Kumar

  Raghbir Lal

  Shankar Laxman

  Govind Perumal

  Amit Singh

  Bakshish Singh

  Balbir Singh

  Balkishan Singh

  Gurdev Singh

  Hardayal Singh

  Udham Singh

  Raghbir Singh Bhola

  Randhir Singh Gentle

  Charles Stephen

athletics

Ladies

• Mary Rao
  • 100 meter run

  Round one: eliminated in round one, competition not finished (DNF)

Men's

• Ram Mehar
  • Long jump

  Qualifying round: 6.92 meters, 22nd place, not qualified for the final

  Try one: 6.92 meters

  Trial two: 6.84 meters

  Trial three: 5.53 meters

• Sri Chand Ram
  • 110 meter hurdles

  Round one: eliminated in run four (sixth place), 15.2 seconds (hand-stopped), 15.40 seconds (automatically stopped)

• Jagdev Singh
  • 400 meter hurdles

  Round one: eliminated in run two (fifth place), 55.2 seconds (hand-stopped), 55.36 seconds (automatically stopped)

• Milkha Singh
  • 200 meter run

  Round one: eliminated in run two (fourth place), 22.3 seconds (hand-stopped), 22.47 seconds (stopped automatically)

  • 400 meter run

  Round one: eliminated in run five (fourth place), 48.9 seconds (hand-stopped), 49.07 seconds (automatically stopped)

• Ajit Singh Balla
  • high jump

  Qualifying round: 1.92 meters, rank 13, qualified for the final

  1.70 meters: valid, no failed attempt

  1.78 meters: valid without a failed attempt

  1.82 meters: valid, no failed attempt

  1.88 meters: valid, without a failed attempt

  1.92 meters: valid, no failed attempt

  Final: 1.96 meters, 14th place

  1.80 meters: valid, no failed attempt

  1.86 meters: valid, no failed attempt

  1.92 meters: valid, no failed attempt

  1.96 meters: valid, without a failed attempt

  2.00 meters: invalid, three failed attempts

• Sohan Singh Dhanoa
  • 800 meter run

  Round one: eliminated in run three (fourth place), 1: 52.4 minutes (hand-stopped), 1: 52.57 minutes (automatically stopped)

• Mohinder Singh
  • Triple jump

  Qualifying round: 14.93 meters, ranked 15th, qualified for the final

  Try one: 14.66 meters

  Trial two: 14.93 meters

  Try three: skipped

  Final: 15.20 meters, 15th place

  Experiment one: 15.20 meters

  Attempt two: invalid

  Try three: invalid

Wrestling

Men's
flyweight

• Baban Daware
  • Flyweight

  eliminated after round three with seven minus points

  Round one: shoulder defeat against Tadashi Asai from Japan , three minus points

  Round two: points victory against Jeong-Gyu Lee from South Korea , four minus points

  Round three: Shoulders defeat against Mirian Zalkalamanidze from the Soviet Union , seven minus points

• Lakhshmi Kant Pandey
  • lightweight

  eliminated after round two with six minus points

  Round one: shoulder defeat against Garibaldo Nizzola from Italy , three minus points

  Round two: points defeat against Adil Güngör from Turkey , six minus points

• Tarashkes was Pandey
  • Bantamweight

  eliminated after round three with seven minus points

  Round one: points defeat against Fred Kämmerer from Germany , three minus points

  Round two: points victory against Omer Vercouteren from Belgium , four minus points

  Round three: Shoulders defeat against Mohammad Mehdi Yaghoubi from Iran , seven minus points

• Purple Ram Sangwan
  • Heavyweight

  eliminated after round two with six minus points

  Round one: points defeat against Kenneth Richmond from Great Britain , three minus points

  Round two: Shoulder defeat against Hamit Kaplan from Turkey , six minus points

• Ram Sarup
  • Featherweight

  eliminated after round three with six minus points

  Round one: defeat against Joseph Mewis from Belgium on points, three minus points

  Round two: BYE

  Round three: points defeat against Linar Salimullin from the Soviet Union , six minus points

• Bakshish Singh
  • medium weight

  eliminated after round three with seven minus points

  Round one: points victory against William Davis from Australia , a minus point

  Round two: points defeat against Hermanus van Zyl from South Africa , four minus points

  Round three: Shoulders defeat against Bengt Lindblad from Sweden , seven minus points

• Devi Singh
  • Welterweight

  eliminated after round two with six minus points

  Round one: shoulder defeat against Nabi Sorouri from Iran , three minus points

  Round two: Shoulders defeat against Mitsuo Ikeda from Japan , six minus points

shoot

Men's

• Harihar Banerjee
  • Small caliber three-position fight

  Final: 1,111 points, 35th place

  Kneeling: 371 points, 36th place

  Round one: 90 points

  Round two: 89 points

  Round three: 95 points

  Round four: 97 points

  Prone: 379 points, 44th place

  Round one: 96 points

  Round two: 93 points

  Round three: 95 points

  Round four: 95 points

  Standing: 361 points, rank 24

  Round one: 88 points

  Round two: 93 points

  Round three: 92 points

  Round four: 88 points

• Haricharan Shaw
  • Small caliber three-position fight

  Final: 1,102 points, 38th place

  Kneeling: 372 points, rank 35

  Round one: 94 points

  Round two: 98 points

  Round three: 90 points

  Round four: 90 points

  Prone: 392 points, 37th place

  Round one: 97 points

  Round two: 97 points

  Round three: 99 points

  Round four: 99 points

  Standing: 338 points, 37th place

  Round one: 75 points

  Round two: 87 points

  Round three: 88 points

  Round four: 88 points

swim

Men's

• Sri Chand Bajaj
  • 100 meters freestyle

  Round one: eliminated in race three (seventh place), 1: 01.6 minutes

• Shamsher Khan
  • 200 meters chest

  Round one: eliminated in round one (fifth place), 3: 17.0 minutes

  • 200 meter butterfly

  Round one: eliminated in round two (sixth place), 3: 06.3 minutes

do gymnastics

Men's

• Sham Lal
  • Individual all-around

  Final: 77.10 points (35.35 points compulsory - 41.75 points freestyle), rank 62

  Bars: 13.35 points (6.25 points compulsory - 7.10 points freestyle), rank 62

  Floor exercise: 13.25 points (6.45 points compulsory - 6.80 points freestyle), 61st place

  Horse jump: 16.50 points (8.35 points compulsory - 8.15 points freestyle), rank 60

  Horizontal bar: 10.50 points (4.00 points compulsory - 6.50 points freestyle), rank 60

  Rings: 13.50 points (6.90 points compulsory - 6.60 points freestyle), rank 61

  Pommel horse: 10.00 points (3.40 points compulsory - 6.60 points freestyle), 61st place

• Anant Ram
  • Individual all-around

  Final: 65.55 points (35.60 points compulsory - 29.95 points freestyle), 63rd place

  Bars: 12.70 points (7.20 points compulsory - 5.50 points freestyle), 63rd place

  Floor exercise: 12.50 points (5.00 points compulsory - 7.50 points freestyle), rank 62

  Horse jump: 15.65 points (8.45 points compulsory - 7.20 points freestyle), 63rd place

  Horizontal bar: 9.70 points (8.20 points compulsory - 1.50 points freestyle), 61st place

  Rings: 6.75 points (4.75 points compulsory - 2.00 points freestyle), rank 63

  Pommel horse: 8.25 points (2.00 points compulsory - 6.25 points freestyle), 63rd place

• Pritam Singh
  • Individual all-around

  Final: 77.35 points (39.75 points compulsory - 37.60 points freestyle), 61st place

  Bars: 13.50 points (7.50 points compulsory - 6.00 points freestyle), 61st place

  Floor exercise: 15.10 points (7.80 points compulsory - 7.30 points freestyle), 59th place

  Horse jump: 16.20 points (8.15 points compulsory - 8.05 points freestyle), rank 62

  Horizontal bar: 11.55 points (5.80 points compulsory - 5.75 points freestyle), 59th place

  Rings: 10.75 points (6.00 points compulsory - 4.75 points freestyle), rank 62

  Pommel horse: 10.25 points (4.50 points compulsory - 5.75 points freestyle), 60th place

Web links

• Indian Olympic team from 1956 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original ).