India at the 1958 Asian Games

India at the
1958 Asian Games
India at the; 1958 Asian Games
IOC code	IND
NOC	Indian Olympic Association
in Tokyo
Medals; Ranked 7th	Gold 5 Silver 4 Bronze 4 Total 13
Asian Games appearances (overview)
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India participated in the 1958 Asian Games held in Tokyo, Japan from 24 May to 1 June 1958. India was ranked seventh with 5 gold medals, 4 silver medals and 4 bronze medals, in the third edition of the Asian Games.^[1]

IOC codeIND

NOCIndian Olympic Association

Medals
Ranked 7th

Gold: 5
Silver: 4
Bronze: 4
Total: 13

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This edition of the Asian Games marked the debut of field hockey. India won the silver medal.

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Medals by sport
Sport	Rank	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Athletics	3	5	2	2	9
Boxing	8	0	1	1	2
Field hockey	2	0	1	0	1
Volleyball	4	0	0	1	1
Total	7	5	4	4	13

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	Milkha Singh	Athletics	Men's 200 m
Gold	Milkha Singh	Athletics	Men's 400 m
Gold	Mohinder Singh	Athletics	Men's triple jump
Gold	Parduman Singh Brar	Athletics	Men's shot put
Gold	Balkar Singh	Athletics	Men's discus throw
Silver	Hari Singh Thapa	Boxing	Men's 75 kg
Silver	Stephie D'Souza	Athletics	Women's 200 m
Silver	Elizabeth Davenport	Athletics	Women's javelin throw
Silver	India men's national field hockey team A. W. Caleb N. R. Chavan Leslie Claudius Chinadorai Deshmutu Balbir Singh Dosanjh Gurjit Singh Kullar Shankar Lakshman Mohammed Yakub Qureshi D. P. Rathi Bakshish Singh Balbir Singh Jr. Balkrishan Singh Gurdev Singh Gursevak Singh Jagjit Singh Udham Singh	Hockey	Men's team
Bronze	Parduman Singh Brar	Athletics	Men's discus throw
Bronze	Christine Brown Violet Peters Stephie D'Souza Mary Leela Rao	Athletics	Women's 4 x 100 m relay
Bronze	Sundar Rao	Boxing	Men's 60 kg
Bronze	India men's national volleyball team T. R. Arunchalam S. L. Gupta P. Bharathan Nair T. P. Padmanabhan Nair Abdur Rahman Raman S. K. Sheikuchan Gurdev Singh	Volleyball	Men's team

Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Club
1GK	Peter Thangaraj	(1935-12-24)24 December 1935 (aged 22)	Madras Regimental Centre
1GK	S. S. Narayan	(1934-11-12)12 November 1934 (aged 23)	Caltex Bombay
2DF	Mohammad Abdul Salaam		Bengal
2DF	Syed Khwaja Azizuddin (c)	(1930-07-12)12 July 1930 (aged 27)	Hyderabad City Police
2DF	Abdul Latif	(1928-08-15)15 August 1928 (aged 29)	Mohammedan Sporting
2DF	Ahmed Hussain		Bengal
3MF	Mariappa Kempiah	(1932-03-04)4 March 1932 (aged 26)	Mohun Bagan
3MF	Muhammad Noor		Hyderabad City Police
3MF	Nikhil Nandy		Eastern Railway
3MF	Bir Bahadur Gurung		East Bengal
4FW	K. T. Pavitran		Bombay
4FW	Pradip Kumar Banerjee	(1936-06-23)23 June 1936 (aged 21)	Bengal
4FW	Chuni Goswami	(1938-01-15)15 January 1938 (aged 20)	Mohun Bagan
4FW	M. Rahmatullah		Bengal
4FW	D. Damodaram		Bengal
4FW	Dharmalingam Kannan	(1936-07-08)8 July 1936 (aged 21)	Hyderabad
4FW	Tulsidas Balaram	(1936-10-04)4 October 1936 (aged 21)	East Bengal

Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GR	Pts
Indonesia	2	2	0	6	3	2.000	4
India	2	1	1	4	4	1.000	2
Burma	2	0	2	4	7	0.571	0

India at the 1958 Asian Games

Medal summary

Medals by sport

Medals by gender

Medalists

Football

Preliminary round

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Bronze medal match

References

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Medals by gender
Gender	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Male	5	2	3	10
Female	0	2	1	3
Total	5	4	4	13