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competed at the

1952 Summer Olympics The 1952 Summer Olympics ( fi, Kesäolympialaiset 1952; sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1952), officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad ( fi, XV olympiadin kisat; sv, Den XV olympiadens spel) and commonly known as Helsinki 1952 ( sv, Helsin ...

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. 64 competitors, 60 men and 4 women, took part in 42 events in 11 sports. This marked the second time India had competed as an independent republic.

Medalists

Gold

* Kunwar Digvijai Singh (c),

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, Ranganandhan Francis, Jaswant Singh Rajput, Balbir Singh Sr.,

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, Raghbir Lal,

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, and Muniswamy Rajgopal —

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, Men's Team Competition.

Bronze

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, Men's Freestyle Bantamweight

Athletics

First Female Contingent Athletics * Mary Dsouza * Nilima Ghose

Boxing

Men's Flyweight: * Sakti Mazumdar :# First Round – Defeated Nguyen Van Cua of

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(DNS) :# Second Round – Lost to Han Soo-An of

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(0 - 3) Men's Featherweight: * Benoy Kumar Bose :# First Round – Defeated Edson Brown of the

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(0 - 3) Men's Welterweight: * Ron Norris :# Second Round – Defeated Jacob Butula of

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(TKO 3R) :# Third Round – Lost to Viktor Jörgensen of

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(0 - 3) Men's Light Heavyweight: * Oscar Alfred Ward :# First Round – Lost to Karl Kistner of

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(KO)

Cycling

Road Competition

Men's Individual Road Race (190.4 km) * Raj Kumar Mehra — did not finish (→ no ranking) *

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— did not finish (→ no ranking) * Prodip Bose — did not finish (→ no ranking) * Suprovat Chakravarty — did not finish (→ no ranking)

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 *

— 24th place

Football

Gymnastics

Hockey

Shooting

Two shooters represented India in 1952. ; 300 m rifle, three positions * Harihar Banerjee ; 50 m rifle, three positions * Harihar Banerjee ; 50 m rifle, prone * Harihar Banerjee * Souren Choudhury

Swimming

* Dolly Nazir * Aarti Saha

Water polo

Birendra Basak • David Sopher • Kedar Shah • Isaac Mansoor • Sambhu Saha •

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• Khamlillal Shah • Bijoy Barman • Jehangir Naegamwalla • Ran Chandnani (source: olympedia.org)

Weightlifting

Wrestling

;Men's freestyle

References

Nations at the 1952 Summer Olympics

1952 Events January–February * January 26 – Black Saturday in Egypt: Rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses. * February 6 ** Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh, becomes m ...

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