India at the 1952 Summer Olympics

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India at the Olympic Games
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At the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki
Competitors
Medals Rank: 26	Gold 1	Silver 0	Bronze 1	Total 2
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India competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland.

Contents 1 Medals 1.1 Gold 1.2 Bronze 2 Results by event 2.1 Boxing 2.2 Cycling 2.2.1 Road Competition 2.2.2 Track Competition

[edit] Medals

[edit] Gold

• Leslie Claudius, Keshav Dutt, Chinadorai Deshmutu, Randhir Singh Gentle, Kunwar Digvijai Singh, Grahanandan Singh, Ranganandhan Francis, Jaswant Rai, Balbir Singh Sr., Dharam Singh, Govind Perumal, Raghbir Lal, Udham Singh, Muniswamy Rajgopal — Field hockey, men's team

[edit] Bronze

• Khashaba Jadav — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Bantamweight

[edit] Results by event

[edit] Boxing

Men's Flyweight:

• Sakti Mazumdar

1. First Round – Defeated Nguyen Van Cua of Vietnam (DNS)
2. Second Round – Lost to Han Soo-An of Korea (0 - 3)

Men's Featherweight:

• Benoy Kumar Bose

1. First Round – Lost to Edson Brown of the United States (0 - 3)

Men's Welterweight:

• Ron Norris

1. Second Round – Defeated Jacob Butula of Canada (TKO 3R)
2. Third Round – Lost to Viktor Jörgensen of Denmark (0 - 3)

Men's Light Heavyweight:

• Oscar Alfred Ward

1. First Round – Lost to Karl Kistner of Germany (KO)

[edit] Cycling

[edit] Road Competition

Men's Individual Road Race (190.4 km)

• Raj Kumar Mehra — did not finish (→ no ranking)
• Netai Bysack — did not finish (→ no ranking)
• Pradip Bode — did not finish (→ no ranking)
• Suprovat Chakravarty — did not finish (→ no ranking)

[edit] Track Competition

Men's 1.000m Time Trial

• Suprovat Chakravarty

• Final — 1:26.0 (→ 27th and last place)

Men's 1.000m Sprint Scratch Race

• Netai Bysack — 24th place

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