1962 Asian Games: Indians Win 33 Medals to finish Third

At Jakarta Asian Games, Indians finished third with 10 Gold, 13 Silver and 10 Bronze medals. Japan led the medal table while hosts Indonesia finished second. Indians won Gold medal for the first time in Boxing and Wrestling, while winning Football Gold medal for the second time after 1951 as Athletics provided five more Gold medals.

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Asian Games 1962 Statistics

    Nations: 17
    Sports: 13 (Badminton made debut)
    Events: 120
    Competitors: 1460
    Winner: Japan
    India: 3rd
    Indian Contingent: 74
    Medals: 372 medals (120 gold, 122 silver and 130 bronze)
    Countries Winning Medals: 15

Athletics
Indians won 14 medals that included 5 Gold, 5 Silver and 4 Bronze medals to finish second behind Japan in Athletics. In two events, Indians won Gold and Silver both.

Boxing
With a Gold and two Bronze, Indians finished 6th as all the three pugilists won a medal each.

Hockey
Men’s Hockey team lost final to Pakistan to win Silver medal.
Indians defeated Malaya (3-0), Hong Kong (4-0) and South Korea (5-0) to finish at top of the group. They won semifinal against Japan (7-0) but lost final to Pakistan (0-2).

Squad: Joseph Antic, Erman Bastian, Rajendran Christie, V. Deshmukh, Abdul Hamid, Shankar Lakshman, Hiranna M. Nimal, Bandu Patil, Jaman Lal Sharma, Charanjit Singh, Darshan Singh, Gurdev Singh, Gurmit Singh, Joginder Singh, Madan Mohan Singh, Piara Singh, Prithipal Singh

Football
After 1951, Indian Football team won its second Gold medal at Asian Games.
Placed at Group B, Indians lost to South Korea 0-2 but defeated Thailand (4-1) and Japan (2-0) to enter semifinals where they defeated South Vietnam (3-2) and then took revenge from South Korea in the final winning 2-1.

Squad: D. M. K. Afzal, Tulsidas Balaram, Pradip Kumar Banerjee, Prodyut Burman, Menon Chandrasekhar, Ram Bahadur Chhetri, D. E. Ethiraj, Fortunato Franco, Arun Ghosh, Chuni Goswami, Mohammed Yousuf Khan, Arumai Nayagam, Jarnail Singh, Trilok Singh, Prashanta Sinha, Peter Thangaraj

Shooting
Indians won their first medal at Shooting through Henry Shaw in 50 m rifle prone.

Volleyball
Men’s Team won Silver medal.
Placed in Pool B, Indians won both matches. They defeated Burma 15-9 15-3 15-10 and Cambodia 15-10 15-6 15-5. In the main stage medal round Group Matches, they won 4 and lost only to champion Japan to win Silver. Against Pakistan they came back from behind to snatch victory while against Japan they lost in 5 sets.

    Def Pakistan 15-13 8-15 13-15 16-14 15-7
    Def Burma 15-3 15-8 15-111
    Lost to Japan 15-9 6-15 15-9 8-15 12-15
    Def Indonesia 15-9 13-15 15-4 15-8
    def South Korea 15-12 15-13 17-15

Squad: Nripjit Singh Bedi, Tilakam Gopal, Joseph, Jai Karan, Khalid, Munnalal, T. P. Padmanabhan Nair, A. Palanisamy, Des Raj, Jaswant Singh

Wrestling
Indians finished third behind Japan and Pakistan in Wrestling. They won 3 Gold, 7 silver and 4 bronze medals.

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