India at the 1970 Asian Games

India at the
1970 Asian Games
India at the; 1970 Asian Games
IOC code	IND
NOC	Indian Olympic Association
in Bangkok
Medals; Ranked 5th	Gold 6 Silver 9 Bronze 10 Total 25
Asian Games appearances (overview)
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India participated in the 1970 Asian Games, held in the Bangkok, Thailand from December 9, 1970, to December 20, 1970. Indian athletes won total a 25 medals including six golds and finished at the fifth position in the medal's table.^[1]^[2]

Medals by sport

Total	6	9	10	25
Sport	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Athletics	4	5	5	14
Boxing	1	1	0	2
Football	0	0	1	1
Hockey	0	1	0	1
Water polo	0	1	0	1
Wrestling	1	1	3	5
Sailing	0	0	1	1

Football

Head coach: G M H Basha

Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Club
1GK	Kuppuswami Sampath		Madras Engineering Group
1GK	Bandya Kakade		Bombay
2DF	Altaf Ahmed		Bengal
2DF	Syed Nayeemuddin (c)		Mohun Bagan
2DF	PM Shivdas		Bombay
2DF	Sudhir Karmakar		East Bengal
2DF	Chandreshwar Prasad		Mohun Bagan
2DF	Kalyan Saha		Bengal
2DF	NIrmal Sengupta		Bengal
3MF	Hishey "Jerry" Basi		Bombay
3MF	Abdul Latif		Bengal
3MF	Doraiswamy Nataraj		Mysore
3MF	Ajaib Singh		Punjab
4FW	Amar Bahadur	(1942-04-18)18 April 1942 (aged 28)	Mafatlal SC
4FW	Subhash Bhowmick	(1950-10-02)2 October 1950 (aged 20)	East Bengal
4FW	Sukalyan Ghosh Dastidar		Mohun Bagan
4FW	Mohammed Habib	(1949-07-17)17 July 1949 (aged 21)	East Bengal
4FW	Magan Singh Rajvi		Rajasthan
4FW	Manjit Singh		Leaders Club
4FW	Shyam Thapa	(1948-05-01)1 May 1948 (aged 22)	Gorkha Brigade

Preliminary round

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
India	2	1	1	0	4	2	+2	3
Thailand	2	1	1	0	3	2	+1	3
South Vietnam	2	0	0	2	0	3	−3	0

10 December

India	2–2	Thailand
Bhowmick 35', 57'		Sahas 13' Preecha 21'

Bangkok

11 December

India	2–0	South Vietnam
Habib 76' Rajvi 85'

Bangkok

Quarterfinals

Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Japan	2	2	0	3	1	+2	4
India	2	1	1	3	1	+2	2
Indonesia	2	0	2	1	5	−4	0

15 December

India	3–0	Indonesia
Nataraj 74' Rajvi 79' Thapa 83'

Bangkok

17 December

Japan	1–0	India
Kimura 88'	Report

Bangkok

Semifinals

18 December

Burma	2–0	India
Ye Nyunt 15', 48'

Bangkok

Bronze medal match

19 December

Japan	0–1	India
	Report	Manjit Singh 36'

Bangkok

References

^ "Asian Games – Medal Tally" (PDF). Indian Olympic Association. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 10, 2012. Retrieved May 18, 2011.
^ "Overall medal standings – Bangkok 1970". Olympic Council of Asia. Archived from the original on June 16, 2010. Retrieved May 18, 2011.

[1] "Asian Games – Medal Tally" (PDF). Indian Olympic Association. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 10, 2012. Retrieved May 18, 2011.

[2] "Overall medal standings – Bangkok 1970". Olympic Council of Asia. Archived from the original on June 16, 2010. Retrieved May 18, 2011.

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