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competed at the

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Competitors

Medalists

Field Hockey

Vasudevan Baskaran Vasudevan Baskaran (born 17 August 1950) is a former field hockey player and coach from Tamil Nadu, India. He captained the India, which won the gold medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, then part of the Soviet Union. Thereafter he c ...

(captain), Allan Schofield, Bir Bhadur Chettri, Sylvanus Dung Dung, Davinder Singh, Gurmail Singh, Ravinder Pal Singh,

Sommayya Maneypande Maneyapanda Muthanna Somaya (born 8 May 1959) is a former Indian field hockey player and was employed with Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd. As a field hockey player, he was captain of the Indian national team and played as a halfback. He played in 3 ...

, Maharaj Krishan Kaushik, Charanjit Kumar,

Merwyn Fernandes Mervyn Fernandis (born 12 April 1959) is a former Indian hockey player. Mervyn played for the famous Indian Airlines hockey team in the 1970s. His name become synonymous with Indian hockey. He was a consistent performer for the Indian team. Me ...

, Amarjit Singh Rana, Mohamed Shahid, Zafar Iqbal, and

Surinder Singh Sodhi Surinder Singh Sodhi is a former field hockey player from India. He is famous for playing a major role in getting India the gold medal in 1980 Olympic games after a gap of 16 years. He played in the center forward position. In the final ...

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Field Hockey Field hockey is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with ten outfield players and a goalkeeper. Teams must drive a round hockey ball by hitting it with a hockey stick towards the rival team's shooting ci ...

, Men's Team Competition.

Results by event

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Men's 200 metres * Subramanian Perumal :* Heat — 22.39 (→ did not advance) Men's 800 metres *

Sriram Singh Honorary Captain Sriram Singh Shekhawat (born 14 November 1948) is a former Indian middle-distance runner. Sriram Singh joined Rajputana Rifles in 1968 where he came under the influence of the coach Ilyas Babar. Babar persuaded him to shift hi ...

:* Heat — 1:49.8 :* Semifinals — 1:49.0 (→ did not advance) Men's 1,500 metres *

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:* Heat — 3:55.6 (→ did not advance) Men's 10,000 metres * Hari Chand :* Heat — 29:45.8 (→ did not advance) Men's Marathon * Hari Chand :* Final — 2:22:08 (→ 31st place) * Shivnath Singh :* 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 Ranjit Singh (13 November 1780 – 27 June 1839), popularly known as Sher-e-Punjab or "Lion of Punjab", was the first Maharaja of the Sikh Empire, which ruled the northwest Indian subcontinent in the early half of the 19th century. He s ...

:* Final — 1:38:27.2 (→ 18th place) Women's 100 metres *

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:* Heat — 12.27 (→ did not advance) Women's 800 metres * Geeta Zutshi :* Heat — 2:06.6 (→ did not advance) Women's 1,500 metres * Geeta Zutshi :* Heat — did not start (→ did not advance)

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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 Baldev Singh ( pa, ਬਲਦੇਵ ਸਿੰਘ, hi, बलदेव सिंह) (11 July 1902 – 29 June 1961) was an Indian Sikh political leader, he was an Indian independence movement leader and the first Defence Minister of India. Mor ...

:* Dilip Gurumurthy :* Paramjit Singh :* Nagarajan Amarnath :*

Jorawar Singh Jorawar Singh (born 7 July 1951) is an Indian basketball player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1980 Summer Olympics. References External links

* 1951 births Living people Indian men's basketball players Olympic basketba ...

:* Rathore Uman Singh :*

Harbhajan Singh Harbhajan Singh (born 3 July 1980) is a member of parliament in Rajya Sabha and an Indian retired cricketer and cricket commentator, who played for the Indian national cricket team from 1998 - 2016. Singh was a right-arm spin bowler. In India ...

Boxing Boxing (also known as "Western boxing" or "pugilism") is a combat sport in which two people, usually wearing protective gloves and other protective equipment such as hand wraps and mouthguards, throw punches at each other for a predetermined ...

Men's Light Flyweight (48 kg) * Thapa Birender Singh *# First Round — Lost to

Dietmar Geilich Dietmar Geilich is an East German Olympic boxer. He represented his country in the light-flyweight division at the 1976 Summer Olympics, as well as the 1980 Summer Olympics. He lost his first match against Armando Guevara Ramón Armando G ...

(East Germany) on points (2-3) Men's Flyweight (51 kg) * Amala Dass *# First Round — Lost to

Yo Ryon-Sik Jo Ryon-sik (born 30 January 1960) is a North Korean boxer. He competed in the men's flyweight event at the 1980 Summer Olympics The 1980 Summer Olympics (russian: Летние Олимпийские игры 1980, Letniye Olimpiyskiye ig ...

(North Korea) on points (0-5) Men's Bantamweight (54 kg) * Ganapathy Manoharan *# First Round — Bye *# Second Round — Defeated Samba Jacob Diallo (Guinea) on points (4-1) *# 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 drew Poland 2-2 :* India drew Spain 2-2 :* India defeated Cuba 13-0 :* India defeated Soviet Union 4-2 *Final :* India defeated Spain 4-3 → 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 Margaret Toscano (born 9 August 1956) is an Indian field hockey player. She competed in the women's tournament A woman is an adult female human. Prior to adulthood, a female human is referred to as a girl (a female child or adolescent). ...

:* Sudha Chaudhry :* Gangotri Bhandari :* Rekha Mundphan :* Rup Kumari Saini :*

Varsha Soni Varsha Soni (from Jaipur, Rajasthan) was a member of the Indian Women's Hockey Team. She was raised in Jaipur, Rajasthan and is the youngest of 7 sisters and 1 brother. She studied at University Maharani College, University of Rajasthan, Jaip ...

:* Eliza Nelson :*

Prem Maya Sonir Prem Maya Sonir (born July 14, 1961) is the Retired Sport Officer of North Eastern Railways Headquarters Gorakhpur. During the 1980 Olympics, she was one of the star members of India's hockey team which also included the Saini Sisters and Lorr ...

:* Nazleen Madraswalla :* Selma d'Silva :*

Lorraine Fernandes Lorraine Fernandes (born 24 December 1954) is an Indian field hockey player. She competed in the women's tournament at the 1980 Summer Olympics. During the Olympics she was one of the star members of India's hockey team which also included the S ...

:* Harpreet Gill :* Balwinder Kaur Bhatia :* Geeta Sareen :* Nisha Sharma :* Hutoxi Bagli

References

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