India at the 1952 Summer Olympics explained

Noc:	IND
Nocname:	Indian Olympic Association
Games:	Summer Olympics
Year:	1952
Location:	Helsinki
Competitors:	64 (60 men, 4 women)
Sports:	11
Flagbearer:	Balbir Singh Sr.
Rank:	26
Gold:	1
Silver:	0
Bronze:	1
Appearances:	auto
App Begin Year:	1900

India competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland. 64 competitors, 60 men and 4 women, took part in 42 events in 11 sports.^[1] This marked the second time India had competed as an independent republic.

Medalists

Gold

• Kunwar Digvijai Singh (c), Leslie Claudius, Keshav Dutt, Chinadorai Deshmutu, Randhir Singh Gentle, Grahanandan Singh, Ranganandhan Francis, Jaswant Singh Rajput, Balbir Singh Sr., Dharam Singh, Govind Perumal, Raghbir Lal, Udham Singh, Chaman Singh Gurung and Muniswamy Rajgopal - Field hockey, Men's Team Competition.

Bronze

• Khashaba Jadhav - Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Bantamweight

Athletics

See main article: article and Athletics at the 1952 Summer Olympics.

First Female Contingent

Athletics

• Mary Dsouza
• Nilima Ghose

Boxing

See main article: article and Boxing at the 1952 Summer Olympics.

Men's Flyweight:

• Sakti Mazumdar

1. First Round  - Defeated Nguyen Van Cua of Vietnam (DNS)

1. Second Round  - Lost to Han Soo-An of Korea (0 - 3)

Men's Featherweight:

• Benoy Kumar Bose

1. First Round  - Defeated Edson Brown of the United States (0 - 3)

Men's Welterweight:

• Ron Norris

1. Second Round  - Defeated Jacob Butula of Canada (TKO 3R)

1. Third Round  - Lost to Viktor Jörgensen of Denmark (0 - 3)

Men's Light Heavyweight:

• Oscar Alfred Ward

1. First Round  - Lost to Karl Kistner of Germany (KO)

Cycling

See main article: article and Cycling at the 1952 Summer Olympics.

Road Competition

Men's Individual Road Race (190.4 km)

• Raj Kumar Mehra - did not finish (→ no ranking)
• Netai Bysack - did not finish (→ no ranking)
• Prodip Bose - did not finish (→ no ranking)
• Suprovat Chakravarty - did not finish (→ no ranking)

Track Competition

Men's 1.000m Time Trial

• Suprovat Chakravarty

• Final - 1:26.0 (→ 27th and last place)

Men's 1.000m Sprint Scratch Race

• Netai Bysack - 24th place

Field hockey

See main article: article and Field hockey at the 1952 Summer Olympics.

Football

See main article: article and Football at the 1952 Summer Olympics.

Gymnastics

See main article: article and Gymnastics at the 1952 Summer Olympics.

Shooting

See main article: article and Shooting at the 1952 Summer Olympics. Two shooters represented India in 1952.

300 m rifle, three positions

• Harihar Banerjee

50 m rifle, three positions

• Harihar Banerjee

50 m rifle, prone

• Harihar Banerjee
• Souren Choudhury

Swimming

• Dolly Nazir
• Aarti Saha

Water polo

Birendra Basak • David Sopher • Kedar Shah • Isaac Mansoor • Sambhu Saha • Sachin Nag • Khamlillal Shah • Bijoy Barman • Jehangir Naegamwalla • Ran Chandnani (source: olympedia.org)

Weightlifting

See main article: article and Weightlifting at the 1952 Summer Olympics.

Wrestling

See main article: article and Wrestling at the 1952 Summer Olympics.

Men's freestyle

Athlete	Event	Round 1 Result	Round 2 Result	Round 3 Result	Round 4 Result	Round 5 Result	Round 6 Result	Round 7 Result	Round 8 Result	Rank
Niranjan Das	−52 kg	L	L	−
Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav	−57 kg	W	W	W		L	L
Keshav Mangave	−62 kg		WalkOver	L	W	L	4
Shrirang Jadhav	−87 kg	L	L	−

Notes and References

1. Web site: India at the 1952 Helsinki Summer Games . 26 February 2015 . sports-reference.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20141111160444/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/IND/summer/1952/ . 11 November 2014 . dmy-all .