India at the 1951 Asian Games

India at the
1951 Asian Games
India at the; 1951 Asian Games
IOC code	IND
NOC	Indian Olympic Association
in New Delhi
Medals; Ranked 2nd	Gold 15 Silver 16 Bronze 20 Total 51
Asian Games appearances (overview)
	1951; 1954; 1958; 1962; 1966; 1970; 1974; 1978; 1982; 1986; 1990; 1994; 1998; 2002; 2006; 2010; 2014; 2018; 2022; 2026;

India hosted and participated in the 1951 Asian Games held in New Delhi from 4 to 11 March 1951, the inaugural edition of the Asian Games. India was ranked second with 15 gold medals, 16 silver medals and 20 bronze medals in the overall medal table, only behind Japan.

Kanti Shah won India's first-ever Asian Games medal with a silver in men's 100 m backstroke swimming. Sachin Nag won India's first-ever gold medal at the Asian Games in men's 100 m freestyle swimming. The India national football team won the gold medal in the men's football competition.

As of the conclusion of the 2022 Asian Games, 1951 remains the only edition where India won gold medals in diving, swimming and water polo. It also remains the only edition where India won any medals in cycling. India's 34 medals (10G, 12S, 12B) in athletics remains its best-ever performance at the Asian Games.

Medal summary

Medals by sport

Medals by sport
Sport	Rank	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Athletics	2	10	12	12	34
Diving	1	2	1	1	4
Swimming	3	1	1	4	6
Football	1	1	0	0	1
Water polo	1	1	0	0	1
Cycling	2	0	1	2	3
Weightlifting	3	0	1	1	2
Total	2	15	16	20	51

Medals by day

Medals by day
Day	Date^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	4 March	0	0	0	0
2	5 March	0	1	0	1
3	6 March	0	0	4	4
4	7 March	1	0	2	3
5	8 March	1	2	3	6
6	9 March	1	0	2	3
7	10 March	7	11	2	20
8	11 March	5	2	7	14
	Total	15	16	20	51

Medals by gender

Medals by gender
Gender	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Male	15	14	15	44
Female	0	2	5	7
Total	15	16	20	51

Medalists

Medal	Name^[7]	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Sachin Nag	Swimming	Men's 100 m freestyle	7 March
Gold	Mahabir Prasad	Athletics	Men's 10 km walk	8 March
Gold	Nikka Singh	Athletics	Men's 1500 m	9 March
Gold	Lavy Pinto	Athletics	Men's 200 m	10 March
Gold	Ranjit Singh	Athletics	Men's 800 m	10 March
Gold	Bakhtawar Singh	Athletics	Men's 50 km walk	10 March
Gold	Madan Lal	Athletics	Men's shot put	10 March
Gold	Amit Singh Bakshi Govind Singh Balwant Singh Karnan Singh	Athletics	Men's 4 × 400 m relay	10 March
Gold	K. P. Thakkar	Diving	Men's 3 m springboard	10 March
Gold	India national football team Berland Anthony Syed Khwaja Azizuddin A. M. Bachan Sunil Chatterjee Abhoy Ghosh D. N. Devine Jones Ahmed Khan G. Y. S. Laiq Sheikh Abdul Latif Loganathan Sailen Manna Sheoo Mewalal Santosh Nandy Muhammad Noor Chandan Singh Rawat P. B. A. Saleh Mohammad Abdus Sattar T. Shanmugham Runu Guha Thakurta Kenchappa Varadaraj Thenmaddom Varghese Pansanttom Venkatesh	Football	Men's team^[8]	10 March
Gold	Lavy Pinto	Athletics	Men's 100 m	11 March
Gold	Chhota Singh	Athletics	Men's marathon	11 March
Gold	Makhan Singh	Athletics	Men's discus throw	11 March
Gold	K. P. Thakkar	Diving	Men's 10 m platform	11 March
Gold	India men's national water polo team Jahan Ahir Ganesh Das D. Daver R. Dean Isaac Mansoor G. Rattansey Kanti Shah	Water polo	Men's team	11 March
Silver	Kanti Shah	Swimming	Men's 100 m backstroke	5 March
Silver	Somnath Chopra	Athletics	Men's hammer throw	8 March
Silver	Kamineni Eswara Rao	Weightlifting	Men's middle heavyweight 90 kg	8 March
Silver	Marian Gabriel	Athletics	Men's 200 m	10 March
Silver	Kulwant Singh	Athletics	Men's 800 m	10 March
Silver	Pritam Singh	Athletics	Men's 5000 m	10 March
Silver	Teja Singh	Athletics	Men's 400 m hurdles	10 March
Silver	B. Das	Athletics	Men's 50 km walk	10 March
Silver	Baldev Singh	Athletics	Men's long jump	10 March
Silver	Parsa Singh	Athletics	Men's javelin throw	10 March
Silver	Roshan Mistry	Athletics	Women's 100 m	10 March
Silver	Mary D'Souza Roshan Mistry Banoo Gulzar Pat Mendonca	Athletics	Women's 4×100 m relay	10 March
Silver	Dhangar Lhanguard Raj Kumar Mehra Madan Mohan Gurdev Singh	Cycling	Men's 4000 m team pursuit	10 March
Silver	Ashu Dutt	Diving	Men's 3 m springboard	10 March
Silver	Amit Singh Bakshi	Athletics	Men's 400 m	11 March
Silver	Lavy Pinto Marian Gabriel Ram Swaroop Alfred Shamin	Athletics	Men's 4×100 m relay	11 March
Bronze	Netai Chand Bysack	Cycling	Men's 1000 m time trial	6 March
Bronze	Jehangir Naegamwalla	Swimming	Men's 200 m breaststroke	6 March
Bronze	Isaac Mansoor Bimal Chandra Sambhu Saha Sachin Nag	Swimming	Men's 4 x 100 m freestyle relay	6 March
Bronze	Dandamudi Rajagopal	Weightlifting	Men's heavyweight +90 kg	6 March
Bronze	Kanti Shah Jehangir Naegamwalla Sachin Nag	Swimming	Men's 3 x 100 m medley relay	7 March
Bronze	Bimal Chandra	Swimming	Men's 400 m freestyle	7 March
Bronze	Gurbachan Singh	Athletics	Men's 10000 m	8 March
Bronze	Kesar Singh	Athletics	Men's 10 km walk	8 March
Bronze	Kishen Singh	Athletics	Men's hammer throw	8 March
Bronze	Khurshid Ahmed	Athletics	Men's decathlon	9 March
Bronze	Rohinton Noble	Cycling	Men's 1000 m sprint	9 March
Bronze	Marie Semoes	Athletics	Women's high jump	10 March
Bronze	Barbara Webster	Athletics	Women's shot put	10 March
Bronze	Govind Singh	Athletics	Men's 400 m	11 March
Bronze	Ajit Singh	Athletics	Men's 3000 m steeplechase	11 March
Bronze	Surat Singh Mathur	Athletics	Men's marathon	11 March
Bronze	Mary D'Souza	Athletics	Women's 200 m	11 March
Bronze	Sylvia Gauntlet	Athletics	Women's long jump	11 March
Bronze	Barbara Webster	Athletics	Women's javelin throw	11 March
Bronze	T. T. Dand	Diving	Men's 10 m platform	11 March

Aquatics

Diving

Athletes	Event	Final
Athletes	Event	Result	Rank
K. P. Thakkar	Men's 3 m springboard	371.25
Ashu Dutt	Men's 3 m springboard	327.20
K. P. Thakkar	Men's 10 m platform	362.05
T. T. Dand	Men's 10 m platform	276.60

Swimming

Athletes	Event^[1]^[2]^[3]	Heats		Final
Athletes	Event^[1]^[2]^[3]	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Sachin Nag	Men's 100 m freestyle	1:04.1	2 Q	1:04.7
Isaac Mansoor	Men's 100 m freestyle	UK	2 Q	UK	6
Bimal Chandra	Men's 400 m freestyle	—		5:32.5
Santosh Bhattacharya	Men's 400 m freestyle	—		UK	5
Bimal Chandra	Men's 800 m freestyle	—		11:35.0	4
Santosh Bhattacharya	Men's 800 m freestyle	—		14:15.0	6
Bimal Chandra	Men's 1500 m freestyle	—		UK	5
Santosh Bhattacharya	Men's 1500 m freestyle	—		DNF
Kanti Shah	Men's 100 m backstroke	—		1:17.0
Pratap Mitra	Men's 100 m backstroke	—		UK	5
Jehangir Naegamwalla	Men's 200 m breaststroke	—		3:11.0
Bhubaneswar Pandey	Men's 200 m breaststroke	—		3:14.1	6
Isaac Mansoor Bimal Chandra Sambhu Saha Sachin Nag	Men's 4 x 100 m freestyle relay	—		4:28.8
Kanti Shah Jehangir Naegamwalla Sachin Nag	Men's 3 x 100 m medley relay	—		3:43.6

Water polo

Squad	Event	Final	Rank
India men's national water polo team Jahan Ahir Ganesh Das D. Daver R. Dean Isaac Mansoor G. Rattansey Kanti Shah	Men's team	Singapore W 6–4

Gold medal match

11 March	India	6–4	Singapore	National Stadium Swimming Pool, New Delhi
	Scoring by half: 2–3, 4–1
	Shah, Dean 2	Goals	Sim 2

Athletics

Men

Track events

Athletes	Event^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]^[9]	Heats		Semifinal		Final
Athletes	Event^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]^[9]	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Lavy Pinto	100 m	10.7	1 Q	11.0	1 Q	10.8
Alfred Shamin	100 m	11.0	1 Q	11.2	2 Q	UK	4
Lavy Pinto	200 m	22.1	1 Q	—		22.0
Marian Gabriel	200 m	22.7	1 Q	—		22.5
Amit Singh Bakshi	400 m	50.6	1 Q	—		50.8
Govind Singh	400 m	UK	2 Q	—		51.4
Ranjit Singh	800 m	—				1:59.3
Kulwant Singh	800 m	—				1:59.7
Nikka Singh	1500 m	—				4:04.1
Sadhu Singh	1500 m	—				UK	5
Pritam Singh	5000 m	—				15:57.8
Jang Singh	5000 m	—				DNF
Gurbachan Singh	10000 m	—				34:58.8
Gulzar Singh Mann	10000 m	—				UK	4
Bagh Singh	110 m hurdles	UK	3 Q	—		UK	5
Cleure D'Classe	110 m hurdles	UK	2 Q	—		DNF
Teja Singh	400 m hurdles	—				56.9
Cleure D'Classe	400 m hurdles	—				UK	4
Ajit Singh	3000 m steeplechase	—				9:37.8
Gulzar Singh Mann	3000 m steeplechase	—				DNF
Lavy Pinto Marian Gabriel Ram Swaroop Alfred Shamin	4 x 100 m relay	43.0	1 Q	—		42.8
Amit Singh Bakshi Govind Singh Balwant Singh Karnan Singh	4 x 400 m relay	—				3:24.2

Field events

Athletes	Event^[10]	Qualification		Final
Athletes	Event^[10]	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Mehanga Singh Sidhu	High jump	1.83	UK Q	UK	4
K. Chatterjee	High jump	DSQ		—
Baldev Singh	Long jump	—		6.99
Sohan Ram	Long jump	—		UK	5
P. S. Cheema	Triple jump	—		UK	6
P. Beck	Triple jump	—		DSQ
Makhan Singh	Discus throw	—		39.92
Amar Singh	Discus throw	—		UK	4
Somnath Chopra	Hammer throw	—		43.35
Kishen Singh	Hammer throw	—		42.32
Parsa Singh	Javelin throw	—		50.38
Surat Singh	Javelin throw	—		DSQ
Khurshid Ahmed	Pole vault	—		3.61	4
S. Chakravarty	Pole vault	—		DSQ
Madan Lal	Shot put	—		13.78
Ishar Singh	Shot put	—		UK	5

Road events

Athletes	Event^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]^[9]	Final
Athletes	Event^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]^[9]	Result	Rank
Chhota Singh	Marathon	2:42:58.6
Surat Singh Mathur	Marathon	2:53:49.8
Mahabir Prasad	10 km walk	52:31.4
Kesar Singh	10 km walk	52:54.0
Bakhtawar Singh	50 km walk	5:44:07.4
B. Das	50 km walk	5:44:14.6

Combined events

Athlete	Event^[10]	Category	100 m	LJ	SP	HJ	400 m	110H	DT	PV	JT	1500 m	Total	Rank
Khurshid Ahmed	Decathlon	Result	12.0	6.11	9.07	1.47	55.2	17.4	27.95	3.36	46.93	5:17.2	5110
Khurshid Ahmed		Points	651	610	430	367	591	583	424	446	543	465	5110
Gurnam Singh		Result	12.5	5.66	11.46	1.62	DNP						2124	DSQ
Gurnam Singh		Points	566	514	574	480	DNP						2124	DSQ

Women

Track events

Athletes	Event^[10]	Heats		Final
Athletes	Event^[10]	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Roshan Mistry	100 m	12.9	2 Q	12.8
Pat Mendonca	100 m	13.1	2 Q	UK	4
Mary D'Souza	200 m	—		28.0
Banoo Gulzar	200 m	—		UK	4
Nilima Ghose	80 m hurdles	—		UK	5
Violet Peters	80 m hurdles	—		UK	6
Mary D'Souza Roshan Mistry Banoo Gulzar Pat Mendonca	4 x 100 m relay	—		51.9

Field events

Athletes	Event^[10]	Final
Athletes	Event^[10]	Result	Rank
Marie Semoes	High jump	1.37
Marjorie Soares	High jump	1.37	4
Sylvia Gauntlet	Long jump	4.52
Veronica Game	Long jump	UK	4
Bhagi Thadani	Discus throw	UK	4
Barbara Webster	Discus throw	UK	5
Barbara Webster	Javelin throw	26.70
Bhagi Thadani	Javelin throw	UK	5
Barbara Webster	Shot put	9.02
Usha Rajaram	Shot put	UK	4

Basketball

Squad^[4]^[11]	Event	Round robin	Rank
India men's national basketball team Ranbir Chopra (C) Davinder Nath Bahri Dharampal Chum Ram Prakash Avnish Chander Soni Gur Prasad Lakshmi S. V. Appayya Kapoor	Men's team	Iran L 52–63	4
		Japan L 46–70
		Burma W 50–47
		Philippines L 38–86

Cycling

Athlete	Event^[2]^[5]	Time	Rank
Netai Chand Bysack	Men's 1000 m time trial	1:22.2
Suprovat Chakravarty	Men's 1000 m time trial	1:22.9	4
Rohinton Noble	Men's 1000 m sprint	UK
Bapoo Malcolm Sr.	Men's 1000 m sprint	UK	4
Dhangar Lhanguard Raj Kumar Mehra Madan Mohan Gurdev Singh	Men's 4000 m team pursuit	UK

Football

Summary

Team	Event	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
Team	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
India	Men's team	Indonesia W 3–0	Afghanistan W 3–0	Iran W 1–0

Roster

Coach: Syed Abdul Rahim

Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Club
1GK	Berland Anthony		Bengal
2DF	Thenmaddom Varghese		Bombay
2DF	Sailen Manna (c)	(1924-09-01)1 September 1924 (aged 26)	Mohun Bagan
3MF	Sheikh Abdul Latif	(1928-08-15)15 August 1928 (aged 22)	Mohammedan Sporting
2DF	Chandan Singh Rawat	(1928-07-26)26 July 1928 (aged 22)	Services
3MF	Noor Mohammed		Hyderabad City Police
4FW	Pansanttom Venkatesh		East Bengal
4FW	Sahu Mewalal	(1926-07-01)1 July 1926 (aged 24)	Eastern Railway
4FW	Ahmed Khan	(1926-12-24)24 December 1926 (aged 24)	Bengal
4FW	P. B. A. Saleh	(1928-11-28)28 November 1928 (aged 22)	Bengal
1GK	Kenchappa Varadaraj	(1924-05-07)7 May 1924 (aged 26)	Mysore
3MF	Thulukhanam Shanmugham	(1920-06-19)19 June 1920 (aged 30)	Mysore
4FW	Santosh Nandy		Bengal
2DF	Syed Khwaja Azizuddin	(1930-07-12)12 July 1930 (aged 20)	Hyderabad City Police
2DF	Sunil Chatterjee		Bengal
3MF	Abhoy Ghosh		Bengal
3MF	Desmond Neville Devine-Jones	(1928-08-15)15 August 1928 (aged 22)	Services
4FW	G. Y. S. Laiq		Hyderabad City Police
4FW	Loganathan		Madras
4FW	Madar Abdus Sattar		Bengal
4FW	Runu Guha Thakurta		Bengal
4FW	Abdul Majid Bachan		Orissa

Quarterfinals

5 March 1951

16:15

India	3–0	Indonesia
Mewalal 27' Siregar 42' (o.g.) Venkatesh 45'	Report

National Stadium, New Delhi

Semifinals

7 March 1951

16:15

India	3–0	Afghanistan
Venkatesh 10' Mewalal 16' Nandy 55'	Report

National Stadium, New Delhi

Gold medal match

10 March 1951

17:00

India	1–0	Iran
Mewalal 34'	Report

National Stadium, New Delhi

All times are India Standard Time (UTC+05:00)

Weightlifting

Athlete	Event^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]	Clean & press		Snatch		Clean & jerk		Total (lb)	Rank
Athlete	Event^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]	Result (lb)	Rank	Result (lb)	Rank	Result (lb)	Rank	Total (lb)	Rank
R. Desai	Men's bantamweight 56 kg	145	6	160	6	210	6	515	6
V. W. Phenany	Men's bantamweight 56 kg	125	7	160	6	195	7	480	7
G. Sethuraman	Men's featherweight 60 kg	190	4	185	2	270	1	645	4
B. N. Ghosh	Men's lightweight 67.5 kg	175	5	170	6	245	4	590	5
Daniel Pon Mani	Men's lightweight 67.5 kg	210	1	200	2	-	DNF	410	DNF
J. D. Telang	Men's light heavyweight 82.5 kg	190	4	180	4	250	3	620	4
N. K. Nair	Men's light heavyweight 82.5 kg	180	5	170	5	220	4	570	5
Kamineni Eswara Rao	Men's middle heavyweight 90 kg	200	2	205	2	250	3	655
Dandamudi Rajagopal	Men's heavyweight +90 kg	220	2	210	3	295	2	725

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "The Indian Express (7 March 1951)".
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "The Indian Express (8 March 1951)".
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "The Indian Express (9 March 1951)".
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "The Indian Express (10 March 1951)".
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "The Indian Express (11 March 1951)".
^ ^a ^b ^c "The Indian Express (12 March 1951)".
^ "Asian Games 1951 Indian medal winners".
^ Majumdar, Rounak (22 April 2019). "The Golden Years of Indian Football". www.chaseyoursport.com. Kolkata: Chase Your Sport. Archived from the original on 7 November 2020. Retrieved 28 January 2022.
^ ^a ^b "The Indian Express (13 March 1951)".
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Athletics Results - 1951 Asian Games" (PDF).
^ "International Players (Senior) from Punjab Basketball Association".

[IE7-1] "The Indian Express (7 March 1951)".

[IE8-2] "The Indian Express (8 March 1951)".

[IE9-3] "The Indian Express (9 March 1951)".

[IE10-4] "The Indian Express (10 March 1951)".

[IE11-5] "The Indian Express (11 March 1951)".

[IE12-6] "The Indian Express (12 March 1951)".

[7] "Asian Games 1951 Indian medal winners".

[8] Majumdar, Rounak (22 April 2019). "The Golden Years of Indian Football". www.chaseyoursport.com. Kolkata: Chase Your Sport. Archived from the original on 7 November 2020. Retrieved 28 January 2022.

[IE13-9] "The Indian Express (13 March 1951)".

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[11] "International Players (Senior) from Punjab Basketball Association".

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