India at the 1978 Asian Games From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Sporting event delegationIOC codeINDNOCIndian Olympic AssociationMedalsRanked 6th Gold 11 Silver 11 Bronze 6 Total 28 India at the1978 Asian GamesIOC codeINDNOCIndian Olympic Associationin BangkokMedalsRanked 6th Gold 11 Silver 11 Bronze 6 Total 28 Asian Games appearances (overview)19511954195819621966197019741978198219861990199419982002200620102014201820222026 India competed at the 1978 Asian Games held in Bangkok, Thailand. India ranked 6th with 11 gold medals.[1][2] Sport GoldSilverBronze Total Athletics87318 Boxing0123 Hockey0101 Sailing0101 Wrestling2103 Shooting1001 Tennis0011 Total1111628 Football Head coach: Arun Ghosh[3] No. Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Caps Goals Club 1GK Bhaskar Ganguly East Bengal 1GK Bhaskar Maity Bengal 1GK Surjit Singh 2DF Gurdev Singh Gill (c) (1950-04-20)20 April 1950 (aged 24) East Bengal 2DF Chinmoy Chatterjee East Bengal 2DF Shyamal Banerjee Bengal 2DF Compton Dutta Bengal 2DF Subrata Bhattacharya (1953-03-03)3 March 1953 (aged 21) Mohun Bagan 2DF Nicholas Pereira 2DF D. Sekaran 2DF Gurcharan Singh Parmar 3MF Prasun Banerjee (1955-04-06)6 April 1955 (aged 19) East Bengal 3MF Pushparaj Kumar Karnataka 3MF A. Devraj Doraiswamy Karnataka 3MF M.M. Jacob 3MF Thomas Fernandes 4FW Xavier Pius Mohun Bagan 4FW Francis D'Souza 4FW Mohammed Akbar 4FW Harjinder Singh JCT Mills 4FW Surajit Sengupta (1951-08-30)30 August 1951 (aged 23) East Bengal 4FW Bidesh Ranjan Bose (1953-11-15)15 November 1953 (aged 21) Bengal Preliminary round Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Malaysia 220020+24 India 210131+22 Bangladesh 200204−40 10 December India 0–1 Malaysia Bangkok 14 December Bangladesh 0–3 India Bangkok Semifinals Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts North Korea 321063+35 Iraq 320161+54 Kuwait 311186+23 India 3003212−100 17 December India 1–6 Kuwait Bangkok 18 December India 1–3 North Korea Bangkok 19 December India 0–3 Iraq Mahmoud 20' Shaker 25' Saeed 63' Bangkok Field hockey Team Salim AbbasiVasudevan BaskaranPramod BatlawSylvanus Dung DungMerwyn FernandesOlympio FernandesB. P. GovindaSukhbir Singh GrewalZafar IqbalAshok KumarVictor PhilipsSurjit Singh RandhawaAllan SchofieldRanbir SinghVarinder SinghSurinder Singh Sodhi Preliminary round Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts India 3300164+126 Malaysia 3201115+64 Sri Lanka 310248−42 Hong Kong 3003216−140 11 December India 5–3 Malaysia National Stadium, Bangkok 13 December India 7–0 Hong Kong National Stadium, Bangkok 15 December India 4–1 Sri Lanka National Stadium, Bangkok Semifinals 17 December India 2–0 Japan National Stadium, Bangkok Gold medal match 19 December Pakistan 1–0 India National Stadium, Bangkok References ↑ "Indian football team at the Asian Games: 1978 Bangkok". Retrieved 8 April 2023. ↑ "Will India be able to maintain its 1978 Asiad momentum till 1982 Games in Delhi?". Retrieved 8 April 2023. ↑ Ghoshal, Amoy. "Indian football team at the Asian Games: 1978 Bangkok". www.sportskeeda.com. Retrieved 28 August 2022. vteNations at the 1978 Asian Games in Bangkok, Thailand Bahrain Bangladesh Burma China Hong Kong India Indonesia Iraq Japan Kuwait Lebanon Malaysia Mongolia Nepal North Korea Pakistan Philippines Qatar Saudi Arabia Singapore South Korea Sri Lanka Syria Thailand United Arab Emirates This article about sports in India is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.vte Related Articles