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India at the 1980 Summer Olympics

 
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India at the Olympic Games

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At the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow
Competitors 76 (58 men, 18 women)
Medals
Rank: 23
Gold
1
Silver
0
Bronze
0
Total
1
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India competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, USSR.

Contents

Medalists

Gold medal.svg Gold

Results by event

Athletics

Men's 200 metres

  • Subramanian Perumal
  • Heat — 22.39 (→ did not advance)

Men's 800 metres

  • Heat — 1:49.8
  • Semifinals — 1:49.0 (→ did not advance)

Men's 1,500 metres

  • Sant Kumar
  • Heat — 3:55.6 (→ did not advance)

Men's 10,000 metres

  • Heat — 29:45.8 (→ did not advance)

Men's Marathon

  • Final — 2:22:08 (→ 31st place)
  • Final — did not finish (→ no ranking)

Men's Shot Put

  • Bahadur Singh Chauhan
  • Qualification — 17.05 m (→ did not advance, 15th place)

Men's 20 km Walk

  • Ranjit Singh
  • Final — 1:38:27.2 (→ 18th place)

Women's 100 metres

  • Heat — 12.27 (→ did not advance)

Women's 800 metres

  • Heat — 2:06.6 (→ did not advance)

Women's 1,500 metres

  • Heat — did not start (→ did not advance)

Basketball

Men's Team Competition

  • Preliminary Round (Group A)
  • Lost to Soviet Union (65-121)
  • Lost to Czechoslovakia (65-133)
  • Lost to Brazil (64-137)
  • Semi Final Round (Group B)
  • Lost to Poland (67-113)
  • Lost to Senegal (59-81)
  • Lost to Sweden (63-119)
  • Lost to Australia (75-93) → 12th place
  • Team Roster:
  • Parvez Irani Diniar
  • Chopra Ajmer Singh
  • Tarlok Sandhu Singh
  • Paramdip Singh
  • Shyam Radhey
  • Baldev Singh
  • Dilip Gurumurthy
  • Paramjit Singh
  • Amarnath Nagarajan
  • Jorawar Singh
  • Rathore Uman Singh
  • Harbhajan Singh

Boxing

Men's Light Flyweight (48 kg)

  • Thapa Birender Singh
    1. First Round — Lost to Dietmar Geilich (East Germany) on points (2-3)

Men's Flyweight (51 kg)

  • Amala Dass
    1. First Round — Lost to Yo Ryon-Sik (North Korea) on points (0-5)

Men's Bantamweight (54 kg)

  • Ganapathy Manoharan
    1. First Round — Bye
    2. Second Round — Defeated Samba Jacob Diallo (Guinea) on points (4-1)
    3. Third Round — Lost to Geraldi Issaick (Tanzania) after referee stopped contest in second round

Hockey

Men's Team Competition

  • Preliminary Round
  • India defeated Tanzania 18-0
  • India defeated Poland 2-2
  • India defeated Spain 2-2
  • India defeated Cuba 13-0
  • India defeated Soviet Union 4-2
  • Final
  • India defeated Spain 4-3 → Gold medal.svg Gold Medal

Women's Team Competition

  • Preliminary Round Robin
  • Defeated Austria (2-0)
  • Defeated Poland (4-0)
  • Lost to Czechoslovakia (1-2)
  • Drew with Zimbabwe (1-1)
  • Lost to Soviet Union (1-3) → 4th place
  • Team Roster:
  • Margaret Toscano
  • Sudha Chaudhry
  • Gangotri Bhandari
  • Rekha Mundphan
  • Rup Kumari Saini
  • Varsha Soni
  • Eliza Nelson
  • Prem Maya Sonir
  • Nazleen Madraswalla
  • Selma d'Silva
  • Lorraine Fernandes
  • Harpreet Gill
  • Balwinder Kaur Bhatia
  • Geeta Sareen
  • Nisha Sharma
  • Hutoxi Bagli

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