India at the 1976 Summer Olympics
# India at the 1976 Summer Olympics

India competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. This was the first Olympics since 1928 in which the Indian Men's hockey team did not win an Olympic Medal.

## Competitors

| Sports | Men | Women | Total | Events |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Athletics | 4 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| Boxing | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Field hockey | 16 | 0 | 16 | 1 |
| Shooting | 3 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
| Weightlifting | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Total | 26 | 0 | 26 | 10 |

## Results by event

### Athletics

Men's 800 metres

* Sriram Singh

   * Heat — 1:45.86

   * Semi Final — 1:46.42

   * Final — 1:45.77 (→ 7th place)

Men's 10.000 metres

* Hari Chand

   * Heat — 28:48.72 (→ did not advance)

Men's Long Jump

* T. C. Yohannan

   * Heat — 7.67m (→ did not advance)

Men's Marathon

* Shivnath Singh — 2:16:22 (→ 11th place)

### Hockey

**Men's team competition**

* Preliminary round (group A)

   * Defeated Argentina (4-0)

   * Lost to the Netherlands (1-3)

   * Lost to Australia (1-6)

   * Defeated Canada (3-0)

   * Defeated Malaysia (3-0)

   * Replay: Lost to Australia (1-1, 4-5 after penalty strokes)
* Classification Matches

   * 5th/8th place: Lost to West Germany (2-3)

   * 7th/8th place: Defeated Malaysia (2-0) → Seventh place
* Team roster

   * ( 1.) Ajitpal Singh

   * ( 2.) Vadivelu Phillips

   * ( 3.) Baldev Singh

   * ( 4.) Ashok Diwan

   * ( 5.) Billimoga Govinda

   * ( 6.) Ashok Kumar

   * ( 7.) Varinder Singh

   * ( 8.) Harcharan Singh

   * ( 9.) Mohinder Singh

   * (10.) Aslam Sher Khan

   * (11.) Syed Ali

   * (12.) Bir Bhadur Chettri

   * (13.) Chand Singh

   * (14.) Ajit Singh

   * (15.) Surjit Singh

   * (16.) Vasudevan Baskaran
* Head coach: Gurbux Singh

### Boxing

* S. K. Rai (Featherweight) – lost first round
* C. C. Machaiah (Light Welterweight) – lost first round
