India at the 1988 Summer Olympics explained

Noc:	IND
Nocname:	Indian Olympic Association
Games:	Summer Olympics
Year:	1988
Location:	Seoul
Competitors:	46
Sports:	11
Flagbearer:	Kartar Dhillon Singh
Gold:	0
Silver:	0
Bronze:	0
Appearances:	auto
App Begin Year:	1900

India competed in seven events at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, winning no medals.^{[1] [2]}

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.^[3]

width=180	Sport	width=55	Men	width=55	Women	width=55	Total
Archery	3	0	3
Athletics	0	5	5
Boxing	3	–	3
Field hockey	16	0	16
Sailing	2	0	2
Shooting	0	1	1
Swimming	1	0	1
Table tennis	2	1	3
Tennis	3	0	3
Weightlifting	2	–	2
wrestling	7	–	7
Total	39	7	46

Results by event

Archery

See main article: Archery at the 1988 Summer Olympics. In India's first appearance in Olympic archery, the nation was represented by three men.

Men

Athlete	Event	Ranking round		Eighth-final		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Score	Rank
Shyam Lal	Individual	1150	71	Did not advance
Limba Ram	Individual	1232	39	Did not advance
Sanjeeva Singh	Individual	1233	36	Did not advance
Shyam Lal Limba Ram Sanjeeva Singh	Team	3615	20	Did not advance

Athletics

See main article: Athletics at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Women

Track events

Athlete	Events	Heat		Round 2		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Position	Time	Position	Time	Position	Time	Position
Mercy Alapurackal	400 m	53.41	26	53.93	30	align=center colspan="4"	Did not advance
Shiny Abraham	800 m	2:03.26	18			align=center colspan="4"	Did not advance
Pilavullakandi Thekkeparambil Usha	400 m Hurdles	59.55	31			align=center colspan="4"	Did not advance
Mercy Alapurackal Shiny Abraham Vandana Shanbagh Vandana Rao	4 × 400 m Relay	3:33.46	7					align=center colspan="2"	Did not advance

Boxing

See main article: Boxing at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Shahuraj Birajdar	Bantamweight		W 5-0	WO	align=center colspan="3"	Did not advance
John William Francis	Featherweight		L 2-3	align=center colspan="4"	Did not advance
Manoj Pingale	Flyweight		W 5-0	L 1-4	align=center colspan="3"	Did not advance

Field hockey

See main article: Field hockey at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

The results of the Indian Olympic field hockey teams are as follows:^[4]

Men's team competition

Team Roster

• Maneypandu Somaya (captain)

• Rajinder Singh (goalkeeper)

• Pargat Singh

• Ashok Kumar

• Mohinder Pal Singh

• Vivek Singh

• Sujit Kumar

• Subrami Balanda Kalaiash

• Mohammed Shahid

• Sebastian Jude Felix

• Balwinder Singh

• Mervyn Fernandis

• Thoiba Singh

• Gundeep Kumar

• Jagbir Singh

• Mark Patterson (goalkeeper)
• Head coach: Ganbash Mollera Poovaiah

Preliminary round

Group B

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Fifth place game

Swimming

See main article: Swimming at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Events	Heat		Final B		Final A
		Time	Position	Time	Position	Time	Position
Ranjoy Punja	100 m backstroke	DNS	align=center	-	align=center colspan="4"	Did not advance
Khazansingh Tokas	200 m butterfly	2:03.95	28	align=center colspan="4"	Did not advance

Table Tennis

See main article: Table tennis at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Preliminary round	Standing	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final
Sujay Ghorpade	Men's Singles	L 0-3 L 0-3 L 0-3 L 0-3 L 1-3 L 2-3 W 3-2	7th in group	align=center colspan=4	Did not advance
Kamlesh Mehta	Men's Singles	L 1-3 L 0-3 L 0-3 W 3-1 W 3-1 W 3-0 W 3-1	4th in group	align=center colspan=4	Did not advance
Sujay Ghorpade Kamlesh Mehta	Men's Doubles	L 0-2 L 0-2 L 0-2 L 1-2 L 0-2 W 2-0 W 2-0	6th in group	align=center colspan=4	Did not advance
Niyati Roy	Women's Singles	L 0-3 L 0-3 L 0-3 L 0-3 L 0-3	6th in group	align=center colspan=4	Did not advance

Tennis

See main article: Tennis at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final
Zeeshan Ali	Men's Singles	W 6-3, 6-4, 6-2	L 6-4, 7-5, 7-5	align=center colspan=4	Did not advance
Vijay Amritraj	Men's Singles	L 4-6, 6-4, 6-4, 3-6, 6-3	align=center colspan=5	Did not advance

Weightlifting

See main article: Weightlifting at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Snatch	Clean & Jerk	Total	Rank
		Result	Result
Gurunathan Muthuswamy	Men's −52 kg	102.5	125	227.5	11
		92.5	115	207.5	19

Notes and References

1. Web site: Seoul Olympics defeat and recrimination all the way for Indian Camp. 1 May 2022.
2. Web site: 1988 Olympics another dismal finish for Indian hockey. 1 May 2022.
3. https://www.olympedia.org/countries/IND/editions/22 India at the 1988 Summer Olympics
4. Web site: 1988 Olympics: Another dismal finish for Indian hockey (Sports Special). 30 May 2016.