As Bangkok hosted the event for third time in 4 editions, Indians won 11 Gold medals as Sriram became second athlete from Track event to retain Gold medal after Milkha Singh, while Hari Chand won two Gold medals in long distance Track event.
Indian History at Every Asian Games: 1951, 1954, 1958, 1962, 1966, 1970, 1974
Indian Medal Winners at Asian Games: 1951, 1954, 1958, 1962, 1966, 1970, 1974, 1978, 2014
Indian Performance at Asian Games in Different Sports
Athletics
Indians won 8 Gold, 7 Silver and 3 Bronze to finish third behind China and Japan.
Boxing
With a Silver and 2 Bronze, India finished 7th.
Hockey
Men’s team won Silver.
Squad: Bhaskar Ganguly, Bhaskar Maity, Surjit Singh, Gurdev Singh, Chinmoy Chatterjee, Shyamal Banerjee, Compton Dutta, Subrata Bhattacharya, Nicholas Pereira, D. Shekharan, G.S. Parmar, Prasun Banerjee, Pushparaj Kumar, A. Devraj Doraiswamy, M.M. Jacob, Thomas Fernandes, Xavier Pius, Francis D’Souza, Mohammed Akbar, Harjinder Singh, Surajit Sengupta, Bidesh Bose
Football
Placed in Group C, Indians lost to Malaysia (0-1) and won against Bangladesh (3-0). In the Group 1 of semifinals, they lost all three matches. They lost to Kuwait (6-1), Iraq (3-1) and North Korea (3-1) to finish 8th.
Sailing
India won a Silver in Enterprise event.
Wrestling
Indian Wrestler finished second behind Japan. They won 2 Gold and a Silver.
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