1952: First Time Participating as a Republic, India Earns 2 Medals

After being declared a republic, India participated in first time as a Republic country in 1952 Olympics. Besides 5th consecutive Hockey Gold medal, Khashaba Jadhav won a Bronze too in Wrestling. Indian Football team played with boots, while 4 women were also part of the Indian contingent.

Indian Performance in Every Olympics
History of All Sports Played at Olympics by India
Indian Medals In Olympics: When and Who Got It!!

Olympics Statistics

Venue: Helsinki, Finland
Sports: 149 in 17 sports
Participating Nations: 69
Athletes Participating: 4,955 (4,436 men, 519 women)

Indian Statistics

India Ranking: 26
Flag Bearer: Balbir Singh, Sr. (Hockey)
Indian Team: 64 (60 men, 4 women) in 11 sports
Sports-India: 11 Athletics, Boxing, Cycling, Football, Gymnastics, Hockey, Shooting, Swimming, Water Polo, Weightlifting, Wrestling
4 females: 2 each in Athletics and Swimming
64 Athletes 1 Gold, 1 Bronze in Wrestling

Athletics:

Lavy Pinto: Round 1 in Men’s 100 metres, 200m
Ivan Jacob: Round 1 in Men’s 400m
Sohan Singh: Men’s 800 metres
Surat Mathur: 52nd in Men’s Marathon
Gulzara Singh Mann: Round 1 in Men’s 3,000 metres Steeplechase
Mehnga Singh: Round 1 in Men’s High Jump
Nilima Ghose: Round 1 in Women’s 100 metres
Mary D’Souza: Round 1 in Women’s 100 metres, 200 m
Nilima Ghose: Round 1 in Women’s 80 metres Hurdles

Boxing:

Sakti Mazumdar: Round 2 in Men’s Flyweight
Benoy Bose: Round 1 in Men’s Featherweight
Ron Norris: Quarterfinals in Men’s Welterweight
Oscar Ward: Round 1 in Men’s Light-Heavyweight

Cycling:

Netai Bysack: Men’s Sprint, Men’s Road Race, Individual, Men’s Road Race, Team, Men’s Team Pursuit, 4,000 metres
Suprovat Chakravarty: Men’s 1,000 metres Time Trial, Men’s Road Race, Individual, Men’s Road Race, Team, Men’s Team Pursuit, 4,000 metres
Raj Kumar Mehra: Men’s Road Race, Individual, Men’s Road Race, Team, Men’s Team Pursuit, 4,000 metres
Pradip Bode: Men’s Road Race, Individual, Men’s Road Race, Team
Tarit Kumar Sett: Men’s Team Pursuit, 4,000 metres

Football:
Indians played without boots.
Squad:

2nd: Ahmed Muhammad Khan, Sailendra Nath “Sailen” Manna
Others: Berland Anthony, Chandan Singh Rawat, Joseph Anthony, Mohammad Sattar, Padamttom Vankatesh, Sheikh Abdul Latif, Sayed Moinuddin, Sayed Khwaja Aziz-ud-Din, Thulukhanam Shanmugam

Results:

Preliminary round: Yugoslavia def India 10-1.
4 goals by Zebec.
1 goal by Ahmed Mohammed Khan (89th minute) from India

Gymnastics:

Vir Singh: Men’s Individual All-Around, Men’s Horse Vault, Men’s Floor Exercise, Men’s Parallel Bars, Men’s Horizontal Bar, Men’s Rings, Men’s Pommelled Horse
Khushi Ram: Men’s Individual All-Around, Men’s Horse Vault, Men’s Floor Exercise, Men’s Parallel Bars, Men’s Horizontal Bar, Men’s Rings, Men’s Pommelled Horse

Hockey: 5th Consecutive Gold Medal
Squad:

2nd time: Leslie Claudius, Ranganathan Francis, Balbir Singh, Sr
2nd: Keshav Dutt, G Nandy Singh, Kunwar Digvijay Singh, Randhir Singh Gentle
Others: Raghbir Lal, Govind Perumal, Muniswamy Rajagopal, Dharam Singh Gill, Udham Singh, Meldric daLuz, Chinadorai Deshmutu

Matches: 13 goals in 3 knockout matches, conceded 2 goals

1st Round: Bye
2nd Round: def Austria 4-0
Semi: Def Great Britain 3-1
Final: Def Netherlands 6-1

Shooting:

Harihar Banerjee (34 years): 24th in Men’s Free Rifle, Three Positions, 300 metres, 29th in Men’s Small-Bore Rifle, Prone, 50 metres, 36th in Men’s Small-Bore Rifle, Three Positions, 50 metres
Souren Choudhury (33 years): 39th in Men’s Small-Bore Rifle, Prone, 50 metres

Swimming:

Isaac Monsoor: Round 1 in Men’s 100 metres Freestyle
Bijoy Barman: Round 1 in Men’s 100 metres Backstroke
Khamlillal Shah: Round 1 in Men’s 100 metres Backstroke
Dolly Nazir: Round 1 in Women’s 100 metres Freestyle
Arati Saha: Round 1 in Women’s 200 metres Breaststroke
Dolly Nazir: Round 1 in Women’s 200 metres Breaststroke

Water Polo: 17th

Birendra Basak (40 years), David Sopher, Kedar Shah, Isaac Monsoor, Sambhu Saha, Sachin Nag, Khamlillal Shah, Bijoy Barman, Jehangir Naegamwalla, Ran Chandnani

Weightlifting

Daniel Pon Mony: 12th in Men’s Featherweight
Kamineni Eswara Rao: Round 2 in Men’s Middle-Heavyweight

Wrestling:

Khashaba Jhadav (25 years): BRONZE in Men’s Bantamweight, Freestyle
Keshav Mangave: 4th in Men’s Featherweight, Freestyle
Niranjan Das: Round 2 in Men’s Flyweight, Freestyle
Shirang Jadav: Round 2 in Men’s Light-Heavyweight, Freestyle