| India at the 1970 Asian Games | |
|---|---|
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| IOC code | IND |
| NOC | Indian Olympic Association |
| in Bangkok | |
| Medals Ranked 5th |
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| Asian Games appearances (overview) | |
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]
| 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 |
| Total | 6 | 9 | 10 | 25 |
Head coach: 
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| No. | Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Caps | Goals | Club |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GK | Kuppuswami Sampath | Madras Engineering Group | ||||
| GK | Bandya Kakade | Bombay | ||||
| DF | Altaf Ahmed | Bengal | ||||
| DF | Syed Nayeemuddin (c) | Mohun Bagan | ||||
| DF | PM Shivdas | Bombay | ||||
| DF | Sudhir Karmakar | East Bengal | ||||
| DF | Chandreshwar Prasad | Mohun Bagan | ||||
| DF | Kalyan Saha | Bengal | ||||
| DF | NIrmal Sengupta | Bengal | ||||
| MF | Hishey "Jerry" Basi | Bombay | ||||
| MF | Abdul Latif | Bengal | ||||
| MF | Doraiswamy Nataraj | Mysore | ||||
| MF | Ajaib Singh | Punjab | ||||
| FW | Amar Bahadur | 18 April 1942 (aged 28) | Mafatlal SC | |||
| FW | Subhash Bhowmick | 2 October 1950 (aged 20) | East Bengal | |||
| FW | Sukalyan Ghosh Dastidar | Mohun Bagan | ||||
| FW | Mohammed Habib | 17 July 1949 (aged 21) | East Bengal | |||
| FW | Magan Singh Rajvi | Rajasthan | ||||
| FW | Manjit Singh | Leaders Club | ||||
| FW | Shyam Thapa | 1 May 1948 (aged 22) | Gorkha Brigade |
| 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 |
| India | 2–0 | South Vietnam |
|---|---|---|
Habib  76'Rajvi 85' |
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Japan | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | +2 | 4 |
| India | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | +2 | 2 |
 Indonesia | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | −4 | 0 |
| Japan | 0–1 | India |
|---|---|---|
| Report | Manjit Singh 36' |
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