1980 Summer Olympics / Participant (India)

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India took part in the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow with a delegation of 72 athletes (56 men and 16 women) in 30 competitions in eight sports. The only medal success was achieved by the hockey team, which won the tournament.

Participants by sport

basketball

Men

• 12th place

• Parvez Diniar
• Dilip Gurumurthy
• Amarnath Nagarajan
• Radhey Shyam
• Tarlok Singh Sandhu
• Ajmer Singh
• Baldev Singh
• Hanuman Singh
• Harbhajan Singh
• Jorawar Singh
• Paramjit Singh
• Pramdiph Singh

Boxing

Men

• Amala Dass
• Ganapathy Manoharan
• Birender Singh Thapa

Weightlifting

Men

• Karunagaran Ekambaram
• Tamil Selwan Muniswamy

hockey

Men gold Vasudevan Bhaskaran Bir Bahadur Chettri Merwyn Fernandis Zafar Iqbal Maharaj Krishon Kaushik Charanjit Kumar Somaya Muttana Maneypandey Amarjit Rana Allan Schofield Muhammad Shahid Surinder Singh Sodhi Devinder Singh Gurmail Singh Rajinder Singh Ravinder Pal Singh Dung Dung Sylvanus

Women 4th Place Gangotri Bhandari Balwinder Kaur Bhatia Sudha Chaudhry Selma d'Silva Lorraine Fernandes Harpreet Gill Nazleen Madraswalla Rekha Mundphan Eliza Nelson Rupa Kumari Saini Nisha Sharma Varsha Soni Prema Maya Sonir Margaret Toscano

athletics

Men Hari Chand Sant Kumar Gopal Saini Bahadur Singh Chauhan Ranjit Singh Shivnath Singh Sriram Singh Subramanian Perumal Adille Sumariwalla

Women PT Usha Geeta Zutshi

horse riding

• Jitendarjit Singh Ahluwalia
• Hussain Khan
• Muhammad Khan
• Darya Singh

Wrestling

Men

• Kumar Ashok
• Kartar Dhillon Singh
• Jagmander Singh
• Mahabir Singh
• Rajinder Singh
• Satpal Singh

shoot

• Gian Chand
• Roy Choudhury
• Karni Singh
• Randhir Singh

Web links

• Indian Olympic team from 1980 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )