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competed at the

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Competitors

Medalists

Field Hockey

* Vasudevan Baskaran (captain),

Allan Schofield Allan Schofield (born January 26, 1957) is a former Indian hockey player. He was part of the Indian hockey team that won the gold medal in 1980 Summer Olympics at Moscow.

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, Davinder Singh, Gurmail Singh,

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, Sommayya Maneypande,

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, Merwyn Fernandes,

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, Zafar Iqbal, and

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, 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 :* 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 *

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:* Heat — 29:45.8 (→ did not advance) Men's Marathon *

:* Final — 2:22:08 (→ 31st place) *

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:* 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 *

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:* 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 :*

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

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:* Rathore Uman Singh :*

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Men's Light Flyweight (48 kg) * Thapa Birender Singh *# First Round — Lost to Dietmar Geilich (East Germany) on points (2-3) Men's Flyweight (51 kg) * Amala Dass *# First Round — Lost to Yo Ryon-Sik (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

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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 :* 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, Ja ...

:* 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 Lor ...

:* Nazleen Madraswalla :* Selma d'Silva :* Lorraine Fernandes :* Harpreet Gill :* Balwinder Kaur Bhatia :* Geeta Sareen :* Nisha Sharma :* Hutoxi Bagli

References

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