1960 Summer Olympics / Participant (India)

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India took part in the 1960 Summer Olympics in the Italian capital, Rome, with a delegation of 45 male athletes in twenty competitions in six sports.

A medal (silver) could be won. The youngest athlete was the hockey player Joginder Singh (20 years and 24 days), the oldest athlete was the marksman Paul Cheema Singh (39 years and 348 days). It was the tenth Summer Olympics participation for the country.

Medals

With a silver medal won the Indian team was ranked 32 in the medal count .

silver

Joseph Antic , Leslie Claudius , Mohinder Lal , Shankar Laxman , John Peter , Govind Sawant , Jaman Lal Sharma , Charanjit Singh , Jaswant Singh , Joginder Singh , Raghbir Singh Bhola , Prithipal Singh and Udham Singh

hockey

Men's

Participants by sport

Soccer

• Results

  Group stage: group four, one point, 3-6 goals, fourth place, not qualified for the semi-finals

  1: 2 defeat against Hungary

  Goal scorers: Tulsidas Balaram

  1: 1 draw against France

  Goal scorers: Pradip Kumar Banerjee

  1: 3 defeat against Peru

  Goal scorers: Tulsidas Balaram

  Rank 15

• Squad

  Tulsidas Balaram

  Pradip Kumar Banerjee

  Menon Chandrasekhar

  Subimal Goswami

  Dharmalingam Kannan

  Mariappa Kempaiah

  Youssef Khan

  Sheikh Abdul Latif

  Bahadur Chettri Ram

  Dhillon Singh Jarnail

  Simon Sunder Raj

  Peter Thangaraj

Weightlifting

• Laxmi Kanta Das
  • Featherweight

  Final: 315.0 kg, twelfth place

  Military press: 90.0 kg, 17th place

  Snatch: 95.0 kg, 13th place

  Push: 130.0 kg, eighth place

hockey

• Results

  Group stage: Group A, six points, 17-1 goals, qualified for the quarter-finals

  10-0 win against Denmark

  Goal scorers: Raghbir Singh Bhola (3 ×), Prithipal Singh (3 ×), John Peter, Jaswant Singh

  4-1 win against the Netherlands

  Goal scorers: Prithipal Singh (2 ×), Jaswant Singh, Raghbir Singh Bhola

  3-0 win over New Zealand

  Goal scorers: John Peter, Jaswant Singh, Raghbir Singh Bhola

  Quarter-finals: 1-0 win over Australia

  Goal scorers: Singh Bhola

  Semi-finals: 1-0 win over Great Britain

  Goal scorers: Udham Singh

  Final: 0-1 defeat against Pakistan

  Rank two

• Squad

  Joseph Antic

  Leslie Claudius

  Mohinder Lal

  Shankar Laxman

  John Peter

  Govind Sawant

  Jaman Lal Sharma

  Charanjit Singh

  Jaswant Singh

  Joginder Singh

  Raghbir Singh Bhola

  Prithipal Singh

  Udham Singh

athletics

• Ranjit Bhatia
  • 5,000 meter run

  Round one: eliminated in race two (eleventh place), 15: 06.6 minutes

  • marathon

  Final: 2: 57: 06.0 hours, rank 60

• Lal Chand
  • marathon

  Final: 2: 32: 13.0 hours, 40th place

• Raj Joshi Tilak
  • 100 meter run

  Round one: eliminated in run one (seventh place), 11.3 seconds (hand-stopped), 11.43 seconds (automatically stopped)

• BV Satyanarayan
  • Long jump

  Qualifying round: Group A, 7.08 meters, eighth place, 30th overall, did not qualify for the final

  Try one: 6.95 meters

  Try two: 7.08 meters

  Try three: invalid

• Gurbachan Singh Randhawa
  • high jump

  Qualifying round: 1.90 meters, rank 29, not qualified for the final

  1.90 meters: valid, two failed attempts

  1.95 meters: invalid, three failed attempts

• • Decathlon

  Final: competition not finished (DNF)

  100 meter run: 707 points, 11.6 seconds (hand-stopped), 11.78 seconds (automatically stopped), 22nd place

  Long jump: 746 points, 6.87 meters, 17th place

  Shot put: 528 points, 11.35 meters, 26th place

  High jump: 900 points, 1.90 meters, first place

  400 meter run: 702 points, 52.0 seconds, 20th place

  110 meter hurdles: 523 points, 16.4 seconds (hand-stopped), 16.55 seconds (automatically stopped), 19th place

• Ajit Singh
  • 20 kilometers of walking

  Final: disqualified

  • 50 kilometers of walking

  Final: 4: 47: 28.4 hours, 15th place

• Jagmal Singh
  • marathon

  Final: 2: 35: 01.0 hours, rank 45

• Jagmohan Singh
  • 110 meter hurdles

  Round one: eliminated in run five (fifth place), 15.2 seconds (hand-stopped), 15.34 seconds (automatically stopped)

• Milkha Singh
  • 400 meter run

  Round one: qualified for the quarter-finals in run six (second place), 47.6 seconds (hand-stopped), 47.72 seconds (automatically stopped)

  Quarter-finals: qualified for the semi-finals in run one (second place), 46.5 seconds (hand-stopped), 46.71 seconds (automatically stopped)

  Semi-finals: qualified for the finals in run one (second place), 45.9 seconds (hand-stopped), 46.08 seconds (automatically stopped)

  Final: 45.6 seconds (hand-stopped), 45.73 seconds (automatically stopped), fourth place

• Virsa Singh
  • Long jump

  Qualifying round: Group B, 6.70 meters, 14th place, 44th overall, did not qualify for the final

  Try one: 6.60 meters

  Try two: 6.70 meters

  Trial three: 6.68 meters

• Zora Singh
  • 20 kilometers of walking

  Final: 1: 43: 19.8 hours, 20th place

  • 50 kilometers of walking

  Final: 4: 37: 44.6 hours, eighth place

Wrestling

Freestyle

• Udey Chand
  • Welterweight

  14th place, eliminated after round three with eight minus points

  Round one: points win against Joe Feeney from Ireland , a minus point

  Round two: point defeat against Wachtang Balawadze from the Soviet Union , four minus points

  Round three: shoulder defeat against İsmail Oğan from Turkey , eight minus point

• Parkash Gian
  • lightweight

  15th place, eliminated after round three with seven minus points

  Round one: Losing points to Shelby Wilson from the United States of America , three minus points

  Round two: points victory against José Yañez from Cuba , four minus points

  Round three: loss on points to Martti Peltoniemi from Finland , seven minus points

• Sunder Shiam
  • Featherweight

  Rank 25, eliminated after round one with four minus points

  Round one: shoulder defeat against Joseph Mewis from Belgium , four minus points

• Madho Singh
  • medium weight

  Fifth place, eliminated after round four with six minus points

  Round one: victory over Alan Butts from Great Britain , zero minus points

  Round two: victory over Germano Caraffini from Italy , zero minus points

  Round three: points defeat against Hans Antonsson from Sweden , three minus points

  Round four: loss on points against Giorgi Schirtladse from the Soviet Union , six minus points

• Sajan Singh
  • Light heavyweight

  Seventh place, eliminated after round four with eight minus points

  Round one: points victory against Antonio Marcucci from Italy , a minus point

  Round two: shoulder win against Dieter Rauchbach from Germany , a minus point

  Round three: Shoulders defeat against György Gurics from Hungary , five minus points

  Round four: points defeat against Viking Palm from Sweden , eight minus points

shoot

• Paul Cheema Singh
  • Rapid fire pistol

  Final: 434 points, rank 57

  Round one: 200 points, rank 57

  Round two: 234 points, rank 57

• Sen Keshav
  • Clay pigeon shooting

  Qualification: eliminated without evaluation

• Karni Singh
  • Clay pigeon shooting

  Qualification: 89 points, 17th place

  Final: 183 points, eighth place

Web links

• Indian Olympic team 1960 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )