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.
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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)
Boxing S. K. Rai (Featherweight) – lost first round C. C. Machaiah (Light Welterweight) – lost first round
Field hockey
Men's team competition
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
Preliminary round Group A
Fifth to eighth place classification
Seventh place game
References
Official Olympic Reports