India at the 1958 Asian Games

India at the 1958 Asian Games
IOC code	IND
NOC	Indian Olympic Association
in Tokyo
Medals Ranked 7th	Gold 5 Silver 4 Bronze 4 Total 13
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India participated in the 1958 Asian Games held in Tokyo, Japan from 24 May to 1 June 1958. India was ranked seventh with 5 gold medals, 4 silver medals and 4 bronze medals, in the third edition of the Asian Games. ^[1]

This edition of the Asian Games marked the debut of field hockey. India won the silver medal.

Medal summary

Medals by sport

Medals by sport
Sport	Rank	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Athletics	3	5	2	2	9
Boxing	8	0	1	1	2
Field hockey	2	0	1	0	1
Volleyball	4	0	0	1	1
Total	7	5	4	4	13

Medals by gender

Medals by gender
Gender	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Male	5	2	3	10
Female	0	2	1	3
Total	5	4	4	13

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	Milkha Singh	Athletics	Men's 200 m
Gold	Milkha Singh	Athletics	Men's 400 m
Gold	Mohinder Singh	Athletics	Men's triple jump
Gold	Parduman Singh Brar	Athletics	Men's shot put
Gold	Balkar Singh	Athletics	Men's discus throw
Silver	Hari Singh Thapa	Boxing	Men's 75 kg
Silver	Stephie D'Souza	Athletics	Women's 200 m
Silver	Elizabeth Davenport	Athletics	Women's javelin throw
Silver	India men's national field hockey team A. W. Caleb N. R. Chavan Leslie Claudius Chinadorai Deshmutu Balbir Singh Dosanjh Gurjit Singh Kullar Shankar Lakshman Mohammed Yakub Qureshi D. P. Rathi Bakshish Singh Balbir Singh Jr. Balkrishan Singh Gurdev Singh Gursevak Singh Jagjit Singh Udham Singh	Hockey	Men's team
Bronze	Parduman Singh Brar	Athletics	Men's discus throw
Bronze	Christine Brown Violet Peters Stephie D'Souza Mary Leela Rao	Athletics	Women's 4 x 100 m relay
Bronze	Sundar Rao	Boxing	Men's 60 kg
Bronze	India men's national volleyball team T. R. Arunchalam S. L. Gupta P. Bharathan Nair T. P. Padmanabhan Nair Abdur Rahman Raman S. K. Sheikuchan Gurdev Singh	Volleyball	Men's team

Football

Head coach: T. Shome

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
	1 GK	Peter Thangaraj	(1935-12-24)24 December 1935 (aged 22)			Madras Regimental Centre
	1 GK	S. S. Narayan	(1934-11-12)12 November 1934 (aged 23)			Caltex Bombay
	2 DF	Mohammad Abdul Salaam				Bengal
	2 DF	Syed Khwaja Azizuddin (c)	(1930-07-12)12 July 1930 (aged 27)			Hyderabad City Police
	2 DF	Abdul Latif	(1928-08-15)15 August 1928 (aged 29)			Mohammedan Sporting
	2 DF	Ahmed Hussain				Bengal
	3 MF	Mariappa Kempiah	(1932-03-04)4 March 1932 (aged 26)			Mohun Bagan
	3 MF	Noor Mohammed				Hyderabad City Police
	3 MF	Nikhil Nandy				Eastern Railway
	3 MF	Bir Bahadur Gurung				East Bengal
	4 FW	K. T. Pavitran				Bombay
	4 FW	Pradip Kumar Banerjee	(1936-06-23)23 June 1936 (aged 21)			Bengal
	4 FW	Chuni Goswami	(1938-01-15)15 January 1938 (aged 20)			Mohun Bagan
	4 FW	M. Rahmatullah				Bengal
	4 FW	D. Damodaram				Bengal
	4 FW	Dharmalingam Kannan	(1936-07-08)8 July 1936 (aged 21)			Hyderabad
	4 FW	Tulsidas Balaram	(1936-10-04)4 October 1936 (aged 21)			East Bengal

Preliminary round

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GR	Pts
Indonesia	2	2	0	0	6	3	2.000	4
India	2	1	0	1	4	4	1.000	2
Burma	2	0	0	2	4	7	0.571	0

Source: ^{[ citation needed ]}

26 May

16:00

Burma	2–3	India
		Goswami [2] Balaram [2] Damodaran [2]

Korakuen Velodrome, Tokyo

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28 May

India	1–2	Indonesia
Rahmatullah [2] 35'		Thio Him Tjiang 11'53'

Tokyo

Quarterfinals

30 May

Hong Kong	2–5 (a.e.t.)	India
		Rahmatullah [2] Goswami [2] Balaram [2] Damodaran [2]

Tokyo

Semifinals

31 May

India	1–3	South Korea
Damodaran [3] 67'		Choi Chung-min 13' Lee Soo-nam 75' Moon Jung-sik

National Stadium, Tokyo

Bronze medal match

1 June

Indonesia	4–1	India
Saari 10' Suratmo 59' Sunaryo 60' Phwa Sian Liong 88'		Balaram 46' (pen.) [4]

National Stadium, Tokyo

Attendance: 46,000 ^[4]

References

1. "Asian Games – Medal Tally" (PDF). Indian Olympic Association. Archived from the original (pdf) on 10 March 2012. Retrieved 17 May 2011.
2. Ghoshal, Amoy (17 August 2014). "Indian football team at the Asian Games: 1958 Tokyo". Sportskeeda.com. Retrieved 19 June 2016.
3. "KOREA, TAIWAN IN SOCCER FINAL". The Sunday Standard. 1 June 1958. Retrieved 13 January 2014.
4. "INDONESIA GET BRONZE MEDAL BEATING INDIA". The Indian Express. 2 June 1958. Retrieved 13 January 2014.