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India at the 1978 Asian Games

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India at the
1978 Asian Games
IOC codeIND
NOCIndian Olympic Association
in Bangkok
Medals
Ranked 6th
Gold
11
Silver
11
Bronze
6
Total
28
Asian Games appearances (overview)

India competed at the 1978 Asian Games held in Bangkok, Thailand. India ranked 6th with 11 gold medals.[1][2]

Medals by sport

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Sport Gold Silver Bronze Total
Athletics 8 7 3 18
Boxing 0 1 2 3
Hockey 0 1 0 1
Sailing 0 1 0 1
Wrestling 2 1 0 3
Shooting 1 0 0 1
Tennis 0 0 1 1
Total 11 11 6 28

Football

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Head coach: India Arun Ghosh[3]

No. Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Caps Goals Club
1GK Bhaskar Ganguly India East Bengal
1GK Bhaskar Maity India Bengal
1GK Surjit Singh
2DF Gurdev Singh Gill (c) (1950-04-20)20 April 1950 (aged 24) India East Bengal
2DF Chinmoy Chatterjee India East Bengal
2DF Shyamal Banerjee India Bengal
2DF Compton Dutta India Bengal
2DF Subrata Bhattacharya (1953-03-03)3 March 1953 (aged 21) India Mohun Bagan
2DF Nicholas Pereira
2DF D. Sekaran
2DF Gurcharan Singh Parmar
3MF Prasun Banerjee (1955-04-06)6 April 1955 (aged 19) India East Bengal
3MF Pushparaj Kumar India Karnataka
3MF A. Devraj Doraiswamy India Karnataka
3MF M.M. Jacob
3MF Thomas Fernandes
4FW Xavier Pius
4FW Francis D'Souza
4FW Mohammed Akbar
4FW Harjinder Singh India JCT Mills
4FW Surajit Sengupta (1951-08-30)30 August 1951 (aged 23) India East Bengal
4FW Bidesh Ranjan Bose (1953-11-15)15 November 1953 (aged 21) India Bengal

Preliminary round

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Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Malaysia 2 2 0 0 2 0 +2 4
 India 2 1 0 1 3 1 +2 2
 Bangladesh 2 0 0 2 0 4 −4 0
India 0–1 Malaysia

Bangladesh 0–3 India

Semifinals

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Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 North Korea 3 2 1 0 6 3 +3 5
 Iraq 3 2 0 1 6 1 +5 4
 Kuwait 3 1 1 1 8 6 +2 3
 India 3 0 0 3 2 12 −10 0
India 1–6 Kuwait

India 1–3 North Korea

India 0–3 Iraq
Mahmoud 20'
Shaker 25'
Saeed 63'

Field hockey

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Team

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Salim Abbasi
Vasudevan Baskaran
Pramod Batlaw
Sylvanus Dung Dung
Merwyn Fernandes
Olympio Fernandes
B. P. Govinda
Sukhbir Singh Grewal
Zafar Iqbal
Ashok Kumar
Victor Philips
Surjit Singh Randhawa
Allan Schofield
Ranbir Singh
Varinder Singh
Surinder Singh Sodhi

Preliminary round

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Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 India 3 3 0 0 16 4 +12 6
 Malaysia 3 2 0 1 11 5 +6 4
 Sri Lanka 3 1 0 2 4 8 −4 2
 Hong Kong 3 0 0 3 2 16 −14 0
11 December
India  5–3  Malaysia
National Stadium, Bangkok

13 December
India  7–0  Hong Kong
National Stadium, Bangkok

15 December
India  4–1  Sri Lanka
National Stadium, Bangkok

Semifinals

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17 December
India  2–0  Japan
National Stadium, Bangkok

Gold medal match

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19 December
Pakistan  1–0  India
National Stadium, Bangkok

References

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  1. ^ "Indian football team at the Asian Games: 1978 Bangkok". Retrieved 8 April 2023.
  2. ^ "Will India be able to maintain its 1978 Asiad momentum till 1982 Games in Delhi?". Retrieved 8 April 2023.
  3. ^ Ghoshal, Amoy. "Indian football team at the Asian Games: 1978 Bangkok". www.sportskeeda.com. Retrieved 28 August 2022.