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{{infobox country at games<br />
| NOC = IND<br />
| NOCname = [[Indian Olympic Association]]<br />
| games = Summer Olympics<br />
| year = 1980<br />
| flagcaption = <br />
| oldcode = <br />
| website = {{url|https://olympic.ind.in }}<br />
| location = [[Moscow]]<br />
| competitors = 76 (58 men, 18 women)<br />
| sports = <br />
| flagbearer = <br />
| rank = 23<br />
| gold = 1<br />
| silver = 0<br />
| bronze = 0<br />
| officials = <br />
| appearances = auto<br />
| app_begin_year = 1900<br />
| app_end_year = <br />
| summerappearances = <br />
| winterappearances = <br />
| seealso = <br />
}}<br />
'''[[India]]''' competed at the '''[[1980 Summer Olympics]]''' in [[Moscow]], [[Soviet Union|USSR]].<br />
<br />
==Medalists==<br />
Gold Vasudevan Baskaran (captain) Hockey Men's team July 20 – 31, 1980<br />
<br />
==Field Hockey==<br />
*[[Vasudevan Baskaran]] (captain), [[Allan Schofield]], [[Bir Bhadur Chettri]], [[Sylvanus Dung Dung]], [[Davinder Singh (field hockey)|Davinder Singh]], [[Gurmail Singh (field hockey, born 1959)|Gurmail Singh]], [[Ravinder Pal Singh]], [[Sommayya Maneypande]], [[Maharaj Krishan Kaushik]], [[Charanjit Kumar]], [[Merwyn Fernandes]], [[Amarjit Singh Rana]], [[Mohamed Shahid]], [[Zafar Iqbal (field hockey)|Zafar Iqbal]], and [[Surinder Singh Sodhi]] &mdash; [[Hockey at the 1980 Summer Olympics|Field Hockey]], Men's Team Competition.<br />
<br />
==Results by event==<br />
<br />
===[[Athletics at the 1980 Summer Olympics|Athletics]]===<br />
'''Men's 200 metres'''<br />
* [[Subramanian Perumal]]<br />
:* Heat &mdash; 22.39 (→ did not advance)<br />
<br />
'''Men's 800 metres'''<br />
* [[Sriram Singh]] <br />
:* Heat &mdash; 1:49.8<br />
:* Semifinals &mdash; 1:49.0 (→ did not advance)<br />
<br />
'''Men's 1,500 metres'''<br />
*[[Sant Kumar]]<br />
:* Heat &mdash; 3:55.6 (→ did not advance)<br />
<br />
'''Men's 10,000 metres'''<br />
*[[Hari Chand]]<br />
:* Heat &mdash; 29:45.8 (→ did not advance)<br />
<br />
'''Men's Marathon'''<br />
* [[Hari Chand]]<br />
:* Final &mdash; 2:22:08 (→ 31st place)<br />
<br />
* [[Shivnath Singh]]<br />
:* Final &mdash; did not finish (→ no ranking)<br />
<br />
'''Men's Shot Put'''<br />
* [[Bahadur Singh Chauhan]]<br />
:* Qualification &mdash; 17.05 m (→ did not advance, 15th place)<br />
<br />
'''Men's 20&nbsp;km Walk'''<br />
* [[Ranjit Singh (athlete)|Ranjit Singh]]<br />
:* Final &mdash; 1:38:27.2 (→ 18th place)<br />
<br />
'''Women's 100 metres'''<br />
* [[P. T. Usha]]<br />
:* Heat &mdash; 12.27 (→ did not advance)<br />
<br />
'''Women's 800 metres'''<br />
* [[Geeta Zutshi]]<br />
:* Heat &mdash; 2:06.6 (→ did not advance)<br />
<br />
'''Women's 1,500 metres'''<br />
* [[Geeta Zutshi]]<br />
:* Heat &mdash; did not start (→ did not advance)<br />
<br />
===[[Basketball at the 1980 Summer Olympics|Basketball]]===<br />
<br />
====Men's Team Competition====<br />
*'''Preliminary Round (Group A)'''<br />
:* Lost to Soviet Union (65-121)<br />
:* Lost to Czechoslovakia (65-133)<br />
:* Lost to Brazil (64-137)<br />
*'''Semi Final Round (Group B)'''<br />
:* Lost to Poland (67-113)<br />
:* Lost to Senegal (59-81)<br />
:* Lost to Sweden (63-119)<br />
:* Lost to Australia (75-93) → '''12th place'''<br />
*'''Team Roster''':<br />
:* [[Parvez Irani Diniar]]<br />
:* [[Chopra Ajmer Singh]]<br />
:* [[Tarlok Sandhu Singh]]<br />
:* [[Paramdip Singh]]<br />
:* [[Shyam Radhey]]<br />
:* [[Baldev Singh (basketball)|Baldev Singh]]<br />
:* [[Dilip Gurumurthy]] <br />
:* [[Paramjit Singh (basketball)|Paramjit Singh]]<br />
:* [[Nagarajan Amarnath]] <br />
:* [[Jorawar Singh]]<br />
:* [[Rathore Uman Singh]]<br />
:* [[Harbhajan Singh (basketball)|Harbhajan Singh]]<br />
<br />
===[[Boxing at the 1980 Summer Olympics|Boxing]]===<br />
'''Men's Light Flyweight (48&nbsp;kg)'''<br />
*[[Thapa Birender Singh]]<br />
*# First Round &mdash; Lost to [[Dietmar Geilich]] (East Germany) on points (2-3)<br />
<br />
'''Men's Flyweight (51&nbsp;kg)'''<br />
*[[Amala Dass]]<br />
*# First Round &mdash; Lost to [[Yo Ryon-Sik]] (North Korea) on points (0-5)<br />
<br />
'''Men's Bantamweight (54&nbsp;kg)'''<br />
*[[Ganapathy Manoharan]]<br />
*# First Round &mdash; Bye<br />
*# Second Round &mdash; Defeated [[Samba Jacob Diallo]] (Guinea) on points (4-1) <br />
*# Third Round &mdash; Lost to [[Geraldi Issaick]] (Tanzania) after referee stopped contest in second round<br />
<br />
===[[Hockey at the 1980 Summer Olympics|Hockey]]===<br />
<br />
====Men's Team Competition====<br />
*'''Preliminary Round'''<br />
:* India defeated Tanzania 18-0<br />
:* India drew Poland 2-2<br />
:* India drew Spain 2-2<br />
:* India defeated Cuba 13-0<br />
:* India defeated Soviet Union 4-2<br />
*'''Final'''<br />
:* India defeated Spain 4-3 → [[Image:Gold medal.svg|16x16px]] '''Gold Medal'''<br />
<br />
====Women's Team Competition====<br />
*'''Preliminary Round Robin'''<br />
:* Defeated Austria (2-0) <br />
:* Defeated Poland (4-0)<br />
:* Lost to Czechoslovakia (1-2)<br />
:* Drew with Zimbabwe (1-1)<br />
:* Lost to Soviet Union (1-3) → '''4th place'''<br />
*'''Team Roster''':<br />
:* [[Margaret Toscano (hockey)|Margaret Toscano]]<br />
:* [[Sudha Chaudhry]]<br />
:* [[Gangotri Bhandari]]<br />
:* [[Rekha Mundphan]]<br />
:* [[Rup Kumari Saini]]<br />
:* [[Varsha Soni]]<br />
:* [[Eliza Nelson]]<br />
:* [[Prem Maya Sonir]]<br />
:* [[Nazleen Madraswalla]]<br />
:* [[Selma d'Silva]]<br />
:* [[Lorraine Fernandes]]<br />
:* [[Harpreet Gill]]<br />
:* [[Balwinder Kaur Bhatia]]<br />
:* [[Geeta Sareen]]<br />
:* [[Nisha Sharma]]<br />
:* [[Hutoxi Bagli]]<br />
<br />
{{Nations at the 1980 Summer Olympics}}<br />
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{{DEFAULTSORT:India At The 1980 Summer Olympics}}<br />
[[Category:Nations at the 1980 Summer Olympics]]<br />
[[Category:India at the Summer Olympics by year|1980 Summer Olympics]]</div>
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