1972 Summer Olympics / Participant (India)

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India took part in the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich with a delegation of 41 athletes (40 men and one woman) in 27 competitions in seven sports. The flag bearer at the opening ceremony was DN Devine Jones , boxing coach of the Indian delegation. The only medal success was the third place in the hockey tournament.

Participants by sport

Boxing

Men

• Chander Narayanan

  Flyweight: 2nd round

• Muniswamy Venu

  Lightweight: Round of 16

• Mehtab Singh

  Light Heavyweight: 1st round

Weightlifting

Men

• Anil Mondal

  Flyweight: 11th place

hockey

Men

• bronze

• Squad

  Govinda Billimogaputtaswamy

  Charles Cornelius

  Manuel Frederick

  Michael Kindo

  Ashok Kumar

  Ganesh Mollerapoovayya

  Krishnamurty Perumal

  Ajitpal Singh

  Harbinder Singh

  Harcharan Singh

  Harmik Singh

  Kulwant Singh

  Mukhbain Singh

  Varinder Singh

athletics

Men Suresh Babu High jump: 40th place in qualification Praveen Kumar Discus throw: 26th place in qualification Edward Sequeira 5000 meters: heats Vijay Singh Chauhan Decathlon: 17th place Mohinder Singh Gill Long jump: 30th place in qualification Triple jump: no valid attempt in qualification Jugraj Singh Shot put: 26th place in qualification Sri Ram Singh 800 meters: heats

Women Kamaljeet Sandhu 400 meters: heats

Wrestling

Men

• Adkar Maruti

  Light flyweight, freestyle: 2nd round

• Sudesh Kumar

  Flyweight, freestyle: 4th place

• Prem Nath

  Bantamweight, freestyle: 4th place

• Satpal Singh

  Featherweight, freestyle: 3rd round

• Jagrup Singh

  Lightweight, freestyle: 2nd round

• Mukhtiar Singh

  Welterweight, freestyle: 3rd round

• Harishchandra Birajdar

  Middleweight, freestyle: 2nd round

• Chandgi Ram

  Light heavyweight, freestyle: 2nd round

shoot

• Prithipal Chatterjee

  Small bore, lying: 95th place

• Roy Choudhury

  Small bore, lying: 99th place

• Karni Singh

  Trap: 34th place

  Skeet: 36th place

• Randhir Singh

  Trap: 44th place

sailing

• Tehmasp Rustom Mogul

  Finn dinghy: 34th place

• Ahmed Abdul Basith & Sohrab Janshed Contractor

  Flying Dutchman: 29th place

Web links

• Indian Olympic team from 1972 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )