1968 Summer Olympics / Participant (India)

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India participated in the 1968 Summer Olympic Games in Mexico City with a delegation of 25 male athletes in eleven competitions in five sports. The men's hockey team took the bronze medal.

Participants by sport

Weightlifting

• Mohon Lal Ghosh

  Featherweight: 15th place

hockey

• bronze

  Tarsem Singh

  Prithipal Singh

  Jagjit Singh Kular

  Harmik Singh

  Harbinder Singh

  Gurbux Singh

  Gogi Singh

  Balbir Singh

  Balbir Singh

  Balbir Singh

  Ajitpal Singh

  Munir Sait

  Inam-ur Rahman

  VJ Peter

  Krishnamurty Perumal

  Rajendra Christy

athletics

Men

• Bhim Singh

  High jump: 17th place

• Praveen Kumar

  Hammer throw: 20th place

Wrestling

Men

• Sudesh Kumar

  Flyweight, Greco-Roman: eliminated in the 2nd round

  Flyweight, freestyle: 6th place

• Bishambar Singh

  Bantamweight, freestyle: eliminated in the 5th round

• Udey Chand

  Lightweight, freestyle: 6th place

• Mukhtiar Singh

  Welterweight, freestyle: eliminated in the 2nd round

shoot

• Karni Singh

  Trap: 10th place

  Skeet: 28th place

• Randhir Singh

  Trap: 17th place

Web links

• Indian Olympic team from 1968 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )