1980: Hockey Gets Another Olympic Gold, Rest Fail to Make Any Impact Despite Boycott

Boycott by USA and Western Countries did not help India’s ranking as they finished 23rd, winning their last Gold medal in Men’s Hockey. Participating for the first time Women’s Hockey Team finished 4th.

Indian Performance in Every Olympics
History of All Sports Played at Olympics by India
Olympic History
Indian Athletes in 2012 Olympics

72 Athletes (16 females, 14 Hockey, 2 Athletics) for 8 Sports, Gold in
Olympics Statistics

1. Venue: Moscow, Soviet Union

1. Sports: 203 events in 21 sports

1. Participating Nations: 80

Athletes Participating: 5,179 (4,064 men, 1,115 women)

Indian Statistics

1. India Ranking: 23

1. Flag Bearer: None

1. Indian Team: 76 (58 men, 18 women)

1. Sports-India: Athletics, Basketball, Boxing, Hockey

1. 5th: Karni Singh (Shooting)

1. 4th: Randhir Singh (Shooter)

1. 3rd: Sri Ram Singh (Men’s 800 mt)

2nd: Roy Choudhury (Shooting), Hari Chand (Athletics 10,000 mts), Shivnath Singh (Men’s Marathon), Vasudevan Bhaskaranm, Bir Bahadur Chettri (Hockey) Satpal Singh (Wrestling after 1972)

Athletics: 11 (9 Men, 2 Women) for 12 Events

1. Adille Sumariwalla: Round 1 Men’s 100 metres

1. Perumal Subramanian: Round 1 Men’s 200 metres

1. Sri Ram Singh: Round 1 Men’s 800 metres

1. Sant Kumar: Round 1 Men’s 1,500 metres

1. Gopal Saini: Round 1 Men’s 5,000 metres

1. Hari Chand: Round 1 Men’s 10,000 metres, 31st Men’s Marathon

1. Shivnath Singh: Men’s Marathon

1. Ranjit Singh: 18th in Men’s 20 kilometres Walk

1. Bahadur Singh: Round 1 Men’s Shot Put

1. P. T. Usha: Round 1 Women’s 100 metres and Women’s 200 metres

Geeta Zutshi: Round 1 Women’s 800 metres

Basketball: 12 member Men’s team finished 12th at bottom

Baldev Singh, Ajmer Singh, Parvez Diniar, Dilip Gurumurthy, Harbhajan Singh, Jorawar Singh, Amarnath Nagarajan, Pramdiph Singh, Paramjit Singh, Radhey Shyam, Hanuman Singh, Tarlok Singh Sandhu

Results

1. Preliminary Round (Group A)

1. Lost to Soviet Union (65-121)

1. Lost to Czechoslovakia (65-133)

1. Lost to Brazil (64-137)

1. Semi Final Round (Group B)

1. Lost to Poland (67-113)

1. Lost to Senegal (59-81)

1. Lost to Sweden (63-119)

Lost to Australia (75-93)

Boxing:

1. Birender Singh Thapa: Round 1 Men’s Light-Flyweight

1. Amala Dass: Round 1 Men’s Flyweight

Ganapathy Manoharan: Round 2 Men’s Bantamweight

Equestrianism: 4 Men in 2 Events

Muhammad Khan, Darya Singh, Jitendarjit Singh Ahluwalia, Hussain Khan in Mixed Three-Day Event, Individual and Mixed Three-Day Event, Team

Men’s Hockey: Gold
Squad

1. 2nd: Vasudevan Bhaskaranm, Bir Bahadur Chettri

1. Others: Allan Schofield, Dung Dung Sylvanus, Rajinder Singh, Devinder Singh, Gurmail Singh, Ravinder Pal Singh, Somaya Muttana Maneypandey, Maharaj Krishon Kaushik, Charanjit Kumar, Merwyn Fernandis Amarjit Rana, Muhammad Shahid, Zafar Iqbal, Surinder Singh Sodhi

Results

• def Tanzania 18-0
• drew Poland 2-2
• drew Spain 2-2
• def Cuba 13-0
• def Soviet Union 4-2
• Final: def Spain 4-3

Women’s Hockey: 4th
Squad

1. 1. Margaret Toscano, Sudha Chaudhry, Gangotri Bhandari, Rekha Mundphan, Rupa Kumari Saini, Varsha Soni, Eliza Nelson, Prema Maya Sonir, Nazleen Madraswalla, Selma D’Silva, Lorraine Fernandes, Harpreet Gill, Balwinder Kaur Bhatia, Nisha Sharma

Results

• Def Austria (2-0)
•  Def Poland (4-0)
• Lost to Czechoslovakia (1-2)
• Drew with Zimbabwe (1-1)
• Lost to Soviet Union (1-3)

Shooting: 4 men in 2 events

• Gian Chand and Roy Choudhury in Mixed Small-Bore Rifle, Prone, 50 metres
• Karni Singh (56) and Randhir Singh in Mixed Trap

Weightlifting

• Karunagaran Ekambaram: Men’s Flyweight
• Tamil Selwan Muniswamy: Men’s Bantamweight

Wrestling: 6 Men in 6 events

• Mahabir Singh (15 years): 5th in Men’s Light-Flyweight, Freestyle
• Kumar Ashok: Men’s Flyweight, Freestyle
• Jagmander Singh: 4th in Men’s Lightweight, Freestyle
• Rajinder Singh: 6th in Men’s Welterweight, Freestyle
• Kartar Dhillon Singh: Men’s Light-Heavyweight, Freestyle
• Satpal Singh: Men’s Heavyweight, Freestyle