India at the 1988 Summer Olympics

India at the 1988 Summer Olympics
IOC code	IND
NOC	Indian Olympic Association
Website	olympic.ind.in
in Seoul
Competitors	46
Flag bearer	Kartar Dhillon Singh
Medals	Gold 0 Silver 0 Bronze 0 Total 0
Summer Olympics appearances
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India competed in seven events at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, winning no medals.

Results by event

Archery

Main article: Archery at the 1988 Summer Olympics

In India's first appearance in Olympic archery, the nation was represented by three men.

Men

Athlete	Event	Ranking round		Eighth-final		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Score	Rank
Shyam Lal	Individual	1150	71	Did not advance
Limba Ram	Individual	1232	39	Did not advance
Sanjeeva Singh	Individual	1233	36	Did not advance
Shyam Lal Limba Ram Sanjeeva Singh	Team	3615	20	Did not advance

Athletics

Main article: Athletics at the 1988 Summer Olympics

Women

Track events

Athlete	Events	Heat		Round 2		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Position	Time	Position	Time	Position	Time	Position
Mercy Alapurackal	400 m	53.41	26	53.93	30	Did not advance
Shiny Kurisingal Abraham	800 m	2:03.26	18			Did not advance
Pilavullakandi Thekkeparambil Usha	400 m Hurdles	59.55	31			Did not advance
Mercy Alapurackal Shiny Kurisingal Abraham Vandana Pandurang Shanbagh Vandana Rao	4 × 400 m Relay	3:33.46	7					Did not advance

Boxing

Main article: Boxing at the 1988 Summer Olympics

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Shahuraj Birajdar	Bantamweight		Ayewoubo Akomatsri (TOG) W 5-0	Kennedy McKinney (USA) WO	Did not advance
John William Francis	Featherweight		Dong Liu (CHN) L 2-3	Did not advance
Manoj Pingale	Flyweight		Joseph Chongo (ZAM) W 5-0	Mario Gonzalez (MEX) L 1-4	Did not advance

Hockey

Main article: Field hockey at the 1988 Summer Olympics

The results of the Indian olympic field hockey teams are as follows:

Men's Team Competition

Team Roster

• Maneypandu Somaya (captain)
• Rajinder Singh (goalkeeper)
• Pargat Singh
• Ashok Kumar
• Mohinder Pal Singh
• Vivek Singh
• Sujit Kumar
• Subrami Balanda Kalaiash
• Mohammed Shahid
• Sebastian Jude Felix
• Balwinder Singh
• Mervyn Fernandis
• Thoiba Singh
• Gundeep Kumar
• Jagbir Singh
• Mark Patterson (goalkeeper)

• Head Coach: Ganbash Mollera Poovaiah

Preliminary Round

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
Germany	5	4	1	0	13	3	9
Great Britain	5	3	1	1	12	5	7
India	5	2	1	2	9	7	5
Template:Country data USSR	5	2	1	2	5	10	5
South Korea	5	0	2	3	5	10	2
Canada	5	0	2	3	3	12	2

1988-09-18
Template:Bk-rt	1-0	India
1988-09-20
Template:Bk-rt	1-1	India
1988-09-22
Template:Bk-rt	1-3	India
1988-09-24
Template:Bk-rt	1-5	India
1988-09-26
Template:Bk-rt	3-0	India

Classification Round

5-8th Place Play-off

1988-09-28
Template:Bk-rt	6-6 (PSC 4-3)	Argentina

5th Place Play-off

1988-09-30
Template:Bk-rt	1-2	Pakistan

Swimming

Main article: Swimming at the 1988 Summer Olympics

Men

Athlete	Events	Heat		Final B		Final A
		Time	Position	Time	Position	Time	Position
Ranjoy Punja	100 m backstroke	DNS	-	Did not advance
Khazansingh Tokas	200 m butterfly	2:03.95	28	Did not advance

Table Tennis

Main article: Table tennis at the 1988 Summer Olympics

Athlete	Event	Preliminary round	Standing	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final
Sujay Ghorpade	Men's Singles	Andrzej Grubba (POL) L 0-3  Y Miyazaki (JPN) L 0-3  Joerg Rosskopf (FRG) L 0-3  Zoran Primorac (YUG) L 0-3  Atanda Musa (NGR) L 1-3  Gary Haberl (AUS) L 2-3  Francisco Lopez (VEN) W 3-2	7th in group	Did not advance
Kamlesh Mehta	Men's Singles	Jörgen Persson (SWE) L 1-3  Ki Taik Kim (KOR) L 0-3  Kiyoshi Saito (JPN) L 0-3  Mariano Loukov (BUL) W 3-1  Piotr Molenda (POL) W 3-1  Jorge Gambra (CHI) W 3-0  Sherif Elsaket (EGY) W 3-1	4th in group	Did not advance
Sujay Ghorpade Kamlesh Mehta	Men's Doubles	China (CHN) L 0-2  Sweden (SWE) L 0-2  Japan (JPN) L 0-2  Hungary (HUN) L 1-2  Great Britain (GBR) L 0-2  Hong Kong (HKG) W 2-0  Tunisia (TUN) W 2-0	6th in group	Did not advance
Niyati Roy	Women's Singles	F Boulatova (URS) L 0-3  Marie Hrachova (TCH) L 0-3  Hsiu-Yu Chang (TPE) L 0-3  Karina Bogaerts (BEL) L 0-3  Mee Wan Leong (MAS) L 0-3	6th in group	Did not advance

Tennis

Main article: Tennis at the 1988 Summer Olympics

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final
Zeeshan Ali	Men's Singles	Victo Caballero (PAR) W 6-3, 6-4, 6-2	Jakob Hlasek (SUI) L 6-4, 7-5, 7-5	Did not advance
Vijay Amritraj	Men's Singles	Henri Leconte (FRA) L 4-6, 6-4, 6-4, 3-6, 6-3	Did not advance