India at the 1976 Summer Olympics

India at the Olympic Games
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At the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal
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Medals	Gold 0	Silver 0	Bronze 0	Total 0
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India competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada. This is the first Olympics since 1924 in which the Indian Men's hockey team do not win an Olympic Medal.

Results by event

Athletics

Men's 800 metres

• Sriram Singh

• Heat — 1:45.86
• Semi Final — 1:46.42
• Final — 1:45.77 (→ 7th place)

Men's 10.000 metres

• Hari Chand

• Heat — 28:48.72 (→ did not advance)

Men's Long Jump

• T. C. Yohannan

• Heat — 7.67m (→ did not advance)

Men's Marathon

• Shivnath Singh — 2:16:22 (→ 11th place)

Hockey

Men's Team Competition

• Preliminary Round (Group A)

• Defeated Argentina (4-0)
• Lost to the Netherlands (1-3)
• Lost to Australia (1-6)
• Defeated Canada (3-0)
• Defeated Malaysia (3-0)
• Replay: Lost to Australia (1-1, 4-5 after penalty strokes)

• Classification Matches

• 5th/8th place: Lost to West Germany (2-3)
• 7th/8th place: Defeated Malaysia (2-0) → Seventh place

• Team Roster

• ( 1.) Ajitpal Singh
• ( 2.) Vaduvelu Phillips
• ( 3.) Baldev Singh
• ( 4.) Ashok Diwan
• ( 5.) Bilimogga Govinda
• ( 6.) Ashok Singh
• ( 7.) Varinder Singh
• ( 8.) Harcharan Singh
• ( 9.) Mohinder Singh
• (10.) Aslam Khan
• (11.) Syed Ali
• (12.) Birbhadur Chattri
• (13.) Chand Singh
• (14.) Ajit Singh
• (15.) Surjit Singh
• (16.) Vasudevan Baskaran

• Head Coach: Gurbux Singh

References

• Official Olympic Reports