India at the 1976 Summer Olympics

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India competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. This is the first Olympics since 1928 in which the Indian Men's hockey team did not win an Olympic Medal.

Athletics

Men's 800 metres

Sriram Singh

Heat — 1:45.86

Semi Final — 1:46.42

Final — 1:45.77 (→ 7th place)

Men's 10.000 metres

Hari Chand

Heat — 28:48.72 (→ did not advance)

Men's Long Jump

T. C. Yohannan

Heat — 7.67m (→ did not advance)

Men's Marathon

Shivnath Singh — 2:16:22 (→ 11th place)

Men's Team Competition

Preliminary Round (Group A)

Defeated Argentina (4-0)

Lost to the Netherlands (1-3)

Lost to Australia (1-6)

Defeated Canada (3-0)

Defeated Malaysia (3-0)

Replay: Lost to Australia (1-1, 4-5 after penalty strokes)

Classification Matches

5th/8th place: Lost to West Germany (2-3)

7th/8th place: Defeated Malaysia (2-0) → Seventh place

Team Roster

( 1.) Ajitpal Singh

( 2.) Vadivelu Phillips

( 3.) Baldev Singh

( 4.) Ashok Diwan

( 5.) Billimoga Govinda

( 6.) Ashok Kumar

( 7.) Varinder Singh

( 8.) Harcharan Singh

( 9.) Mohinder Singh

(10.) Aslam Sher Khan

(11.) Syed Ali

(12.) Birbhadur Chattri

(13.) Chand Singh

(14.) Ajit Singh

(15.) Surjit Singh

(16.) Vasudevan Baskaran

Head Coach: Gurbux Singh

Boxing

Rai Sik (Featherweight) – lost first round.

C.C Machaiah (Light Welterweight) – lost first round.

References

India at the 1976 Summer Olympics Wikipedia

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Contents

Athletics

Men's Team Competition

Boxing

References