India at the 1948 Summer Olympics explained

India competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics in Wembley Park, London, England. 79 competitors, all men, took part in 39 events in 10 sports.^[1] It was the first time that India competed as an independent nation at the Olympic Games.

Medalists

Medals by sport
Sport				Total
	1	0	0	1
Total	1	0	0	1

Competitors

Note: All times mentioned on this page are in British Summer Time (BST). Indian Standard Time (IST) = BST + 4:30hrs.

width=150	Sport	width=55	Men	width=55	Women	width=55	Events
Athletics	8	0	10
Boxing	7	0	7
Cycling	9	0	5
Field Hockey	20	0	1
Football	18	0	1
Swimming	7	0	5
Water polo	9	0	1
Weightlifting	2	0	2
Wrestling	6	0	6

Athletics

See main article: article and Athletics at the 1948 Summer Olympics.

Boxing

See main article: article and Boxing at the 1948 Summer Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Rabin Bhatta	Flyweight	L KO1	Did not advance
Babu Lall	Bantamweight	W RSC1	L PTS	Did not advance
Benoy Bose	Featherweight	L PTS	Did not advance
Gene Raymond	Lightweight	L PTS	Did not advance
Robert Cranston	Welterweight	L PTS	Did not advance
John Nuttall	Middleweight	L PTS	Did not advance
Mac Joachim	Light heavyweight	L PTS	Did not advance

Cycling

See main article: article and Cycling at the 1948 Summer Olympics.

Ten cyclists represented India in 1948

Individual road race

• Bapoo Malcolm
• Raj Kumar Mehra
• Eruch Mistry
• Homi Powri (Pavri)

Team road race

• Bapoo Malcolm
• Raj Kumar Mehra
• Eruch Mistry
• Homi Powri (Pavri)

Sprint

• Rusi Mulla Feroze

Time trial

• Rohinton Noble

Team pursuit

• Adi Havewala
• Jehangoo Amin
• Rohinton Noble
• Piloo Sarkari (Sarkar)

Also represented India: Netai Chand Bysack

Sohrab Bhoot and Nariman Saugar were administrators for the cycling team.

Field hockey

See main article: article and Field hockey at the 1948 Summer Olympics. The Indian field hockey team defeated the British team to win the country's first gold medal at the 1948 Summer Olympics. It was the country's first Olympic gold medal since India became independent.

SquadLeslie Claudius
Keshav Dutt
Walter D'Souza
Lawrie Fernandes
Ranganathan Francis
Gerry Glackan
Akhtar Hussain
Patrick Jansen
Amir Kumar
Kishan Lal (c)
Leo Pinto
Jaswant Singh Rajput
Latif-ur-Rehman
Reginald Rodrigues
Balbir Singh Sr.
Randhir Singh Gentle
Grahanandan Singh
K. D. Singh (vc)
Trilochan Singh
Maxie Vaz

Group A matches

Rank	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
1.		3	3	0	0	19	1	6		X	9:1	8:0	2:0
2.		3	1	1	1	5	12	3		1:9	X	1:1	3:2
3.		3	0	2	1	2	10	2		0:8	1:1	X	1:1
4.		3	0	1	2	3	6	1		0:2	2:3	1:1	X

Semi-finals

2 – 1

Final

4 – 0

Football

See main article: article and Football at the 1948 Summer Olympics.

SquadHead coach: Balaidas Chatterjee

width=4%	Pos.	width=23%	Player	width=12%	Date of Birth	width=4%	Age	width=4%	Caps	width=21%	Club	width=6%	Tournament games	width=6%	Tournament goals	width=4%	Minutes played	width=4%	Sub off	width=4%	Sub on	width=4%	Cards yellow/red
		Jan 28, 1918	30	?		1	0	90	-	-	-
		1924		?	Mysore	1	0	90	-	-	-
				?	Bhawanipore Club	1	0	90	-	-	-
		Dec 24, 1926	21	?	Mysore	1	0	90	-	-	-
		Sep 1, 1924	23	?		1	0	90	-	-	-
		Jul 1, 1926	22	?		1	0	90	-	-	-
		1924		?		1	0	90	-	-	-
		1918		?		1	0	90	-	-	-
		1925		?		1	0	90	-	-	-
		1920		?	Mysore	1	1	90	-	-	-
		1923		?	Mysore	1	0	90	-	-	-
	- Stand-by players -
				?	Mysore	0	0	0	-	-	-
				?		0	0	0	-	-	-
				?		0	0	0	-	-	-
		1932		?		0	0	0	-	-	-
				?		0	0	0	-	-	-
				?	ICL-Bengal Club, Bombay	0	0	0	-	-	-
				?	Mysore	0	0	0	-	-	-

First round

Swimming

See main article: article and Swimming at the 1948 Summer Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Sachin Nag	Men's 100 m freestyle	1:03.8	34	align=center colspan="4"	Did not advance
Isaac Mansoor	Men's 100 m freestyle	1:06.4	38	align=center colspan="4"	Did not advance
Dilip Mitra	Men's 100 m freestyle	1:06.9	39	align=center colspan="4"	Did not advance
Bimal Chandra	Men's 400 metre freestyle	5:38.6	?	align=center colspan="4"	Did not advance
	Men's 1500 metre freestyle	22:52.9	?	align=center colspan="4"	Did not advance
Khamlillal Shah	Men's 100 metre backstroke	1:19.9	?	align=center colspan="4"	Did not advance
Prahtip Mitra	Men's 100 metre backstroke	1:24.5	?	align=center colspan="4"	Did not advance
Prafulla Mullick	Men's 200 metre breaststroke	3:14.9	?	align=center colspan="4"	Did not advance

Water polo

See main article: article and Water polo at the 1948 Summer Olympics. Indian water polo team ranked 9th in tournament.

SquadGora Seal
Samarendra Chatterjee
Ajoy Chatterjee
Suhas Chatterjee
Dwarkadas Mukharji
Durga Das
Jamini Dass
Sachin Nag
Isaac Mansoor
Jahan Ahir

Round One

Group C matches

Rank	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
1.		2	2	0	0	26	1	4		X	12:1	14:0
2.		2	1	0	1	8	16	2		1:12	X	7:4
3.		2	0	0	2	4	21	0		0:14	4:7	X

Round Two

Group H

Rank	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
1.		2	2	0	0	17	3	4		X	5:2	12:1
2.		2	1	0	1	13	6	2		2:5	X	11:1
3.		2	0	0	2	2	23	0		1:12	1:11	X

Weightlifting

See main article: article and Weightlifting at the 1948 Summer Olympics.

Wrestling

See main article: article and Wrestling at the 1948 Summer Olympics.

Men's freestyle

Athlete	Event	Round 1 Result	Round 2 Result	Round 3 Result	Round 4 Result	Round 5 Result	Rank
K. D. Jadhav	−52 kg	W	W	L	6
Nirmal Bose	−57 kg	L	−
S. Suryavanshi	−62 kg	L	L	−
Banta Singh	−67 kg	L	L	−
A. Bhargava	−73 kg	L	W	L	−
K. Roy	−79 kg	L	L	−

See also

• Gold (2018 film), about India's national hockey team at the 1948 Summer Olympics

External links

• sports-reference.com

Notes and References

1. Web site: India at the 1948 London Summer Games . 17 July 2014 . sports-reference.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140714115148/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/IND/summer/1948/ . 14 July 2014 . dmy-all .