India at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Athletics

First Female Contingent

Athletics

• Mary Dsouza
• Nilima Ghose

Boxing

Men's Flyweight:

• Sakti Mazumdar

1. First Round – Defeated Nguyen Van Cua of Vietnam (DNS)
2. Second Round – Lost to Han Soo-An of Korea (0 - 3)

Men's Featherweight:

• Benoy Kumar Bose

1. First Round – Defeated Edson Brown of the United States (0 - 3)

Men's Welterweight:

• Ron Norris

1. Second Round – Defeated Jacob Butula of Canada (TKO 3R)
2. Third Round – Lost to Victor Jörgensen of Denmark (0 - 3)

Men's Light Heavyweight:

• Oscar Alfred Ward

1. First Round – Lost to Karl Kistner of Germany (KO)

Cycling

Road Competition

Men's Individual Road Race (190.4 km)

• Raj Kumar Mehra — did not finish (→ no ranking)
• Netai Bysack — did not finish (→ no ranking)
• Prodip Bose — did not finish (→ no ranking)
• Suprovat Chakravarty — did not finish (→ no ranking)

Track Competition

Men's 1.000m Time Trial

• Suprovat Chakravarty

• Final — 1:26.0 (→ 27th and last place)

Men's 1.000m Sprint Scratch Race

• Netai Bysack — 24th place

Field hockey

Football

Gymnastics

Shooting

Two shooters represented India in 1952.

300 m rifle, three positions

• Harihar Banerjee

50 m rifle, three positions

• Harihar Banerjee

50 m rifle, prone

• Harihar Banerjee
• Souren Choudhury

Swimming

• Dolly Nazir
• Aarti Saha

Water polo

Birendra Basak • David Sopher • Kedar Shah • Isaac Mansoor • Sambhu Saha • Sachin Nag • Khamlillal Shah • Bijoy Barman • Jehangir Naegamwalla • Ran Chandnani (source: olympedia.org)

Weightlifting

Wrestling

Key:

• VT - Victory by Fall.
• Pt - Decision by Points.
• Pd - Decision by Points but Judges disagree.

Men's freestyle