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.

Quick facts India at the 1951 Asian Games, IOC code ...

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.

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

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

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

India at the 1951 Asian Games

Medal summary

Medals by sport

Medals by day

Medals by gender

Medalists

Aquatics

Diving

Swimming

Water polo

Gold medal match

Athletics

Men

Track events

Field events

Road events

Combined events

Women

Track events

Field events

Basketball

Cycling

Football

Summary

Roster

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Gold medal match

Weightlifting

References

Wikiwand - on

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

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

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

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