# India at the 1958 Asian Games

India participated in the 1958 Asian Games held in Tokyo, Japan from 24 May to 1 June 1958. India was ranked seventh with 5 gold medals, 4 silver medals and 4 bronze medals, in the third edition of the Asian Games.
This edition of the Asian Games marked the debut of field hockey. India won the silver medal.

## Medal summary
### Medals by sport

Medals by sport :
| Sport | Rank | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| Athletics | 3 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 9 |
| Boxing | 8 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Field hockey | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Volleyball | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Total | 7 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 13 |

### Medals by gender

Medals by gender :
| Gender | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| Male | 5 | 2 | 3 | 10 |
| Female | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Total | 5 | 4 | 4 | 13 |

### Medalists

| Medal | Name | Sport | Event |
| Gold | Milkha Singh | Athletics | Men's 200 m |
| Gold | Milkha Singh | Athletics | Men's 400 m |
| Gold | Mohinder Singh | Athletics | Men's triple jump |
| Gold | Parduman Singh Brar | Athletics | Men's shot put |
| Gold | Balkar Singh | Athletics | Men's discus throw |
| Silver | Hari Singh Thapa | Boxing | Men's 75 kg |
| Silver | Stephie D'Souza | Athletics | Women's 200 m |
| Silver | Elizabeth Davenport | Athletics | Women's javelin throw |
| Silver | India men's national field hockey team A. W. Caleb N. R. Chavan Leslie Claudius Chinadorai Deshmutu Balbir Singh Dosanjh Gurjit Singh Kullar Shankar Lakshman Mohammed Yakub Qureshi D. P. Rathi Bakshish Singh Balbir Singh Jr. Balkrishan Singh Gurdev Singh Gursevak Singh Jagjit Singh Udham Singh | Hockey | Men's team |
| Bronze | Parduman Singh Brar | Athletics | Men's discus throw |
| Bronze | Christine Brown Violet Peters Stephie D'Souza Mary Leela Rao | Athletics | Women's 4 x 100 m relay |
| Bronze | Sundar Rao | Boxing | Men's 60 kg |
| Bronze | India men's national volleyball team T. R. Arunchalam S. L. Gupta P. Bharathan Nair T. P. Padmanabhan Nair Abdur Rahman Raman S. K. Sheikuchan Gurdev Singh | Volleyball | Men's team |

## Football

Head coach: T. Shome
| Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Club |
| 1GK | Peter Thangaraj | (1935-12-24)24 December 1935 (aged 22) | Madras Regimental Centre |
| 1GK | S. S. Narayan | (1934-11-12)12 November 1934 (aged 23) | Caltex Bombay |
| 2DF | Mohammad Abdul Salaam | | Bengal |
| 2DF | Syed Khwaja Azizuddin (c) | (1930-07-12)12 July 1930 (aged 27) | Hyderabad City Police |
| 2DF | Abdul Latif | (1928-08-15)15 August 1928 (aged 29) | Mohammedan Sporting |
| 2DF | Ahmed Hussain | | Bengal |
| 3MF | Mariappa Kempiah | (1932-03-04)4 March 1932 (aged 26) | Mohun Bagan |
| 3MF | Noor Mohammed | | Hyderabad City Police |
| 3MF | Nikhil Nandy | | Eastern Railway |
| 3MF | Bir Bahadur Gurung | | East Bengal |
| 4FW | K. T. Pavitran | | Bombay |
| 4FW | Pradip Kumar Banerjee | (1936-06-23)23 June 1936 (aged 21) | Bengal |
| 4FW | Chuni Goswami | (1938-01-15)15 January 1938 (aged 20) | Mohun Bagan |
| 4FW | M. Rahmatullah | | Bengal |
| 4FW | D. Damodaram | | Bengal |
| 4FW | Dharmalingam Kannan | (1936-07-08)8 July 1936 (aged 21) | Hyderabad |
| 4FW | Tulsidas Balaram | (1936-10-04)4 October 1936 (aged 21) | East Bengal |

### Preliminary round

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GR | Pts |
| Indonesia | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 2.000 | 4 |
| India | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 1.000 | 2 |
| Burma | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 0.571 | 0 |