# India at the 1980 Summer Olympics

India competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, USSR.

## Competitors

| Sports | Men | Women | Total | Events |
| Athletics | 9 | 2 | 11 | 12 |
| Basketball | 12 | 0 | 12 | 1 |
| Boxing | 3 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Equestrian | 4 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
| Field hockey | 16 | 16 | 32 | 2 |
| Shooting | 4 | 0 | 4 | 2 |
| Weightlifting | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Wrestling | 6 | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| Total | 56 | 18 | 74 | 29 |

## Medalists
### Field Hockey

* Vasudevan Baskaran (captain), Allan Schofield, Bir Bhadur Chettri, Sylvanus Dung Dung, Davinder Singh, Gurmail Singh, Ravinder Pal Singh, Sommayya Maneypande, Maharaj Krishan Kaushik, Charanjit Kumar, Merwyn Fernandes, Amarjit Singh Rana, Mohamed Shahid, Zafar Iqbal, and Surinder Singh Sodhi — Field Hockey, Men's Team Competition.

## Results by event
### Athletics

Men's 200 metres
* Subramanian Perumal
   * Heat — 22.39 (→ did not advance)
Men's 800 metres
* Sriram Singh
   * Heat — 1:49.8
   * Semifinals — 1:49.0 (→ did not advance)
Men's 1,500 metres
* Sant Kumar
   * Heat — 3:55.6 (→ did not advance)
Men's 10,000 metres
* Hari Chand
   * Heat — 29:45.8 (→ did not advance)
Men's Marathon
* Hari Chand
   * Final — 2:22:08 (→ 31st place)
* Shivnath Singh
   * Final — did not finish (→ no ranking)
Men's Shot Put
* Bahadur Singh Chauhan
   * Qualification — 17.05 m (→ did not advance, 15th place)
Men's 20 km Walk
* Ranjit Singh
   * Final — 1:38:27.2 (→ 18th place)
Women's 100 metres
* P. T. Usha
   * Heat — 12.27 (→ did not advance)
Women's 800 metres
* Geeta Zutshi
   * Heat — 2:06.6 (→ did not advance)
Women's 1,500 metres
* Geeta Zutshi
   * Heat — did not start (→ did not advance)

### Basketball

* Team Roster:
   * Parvez Irani Diniar
   * Chopra Ajmer Singh
   * Tarlok Sandhu Singh
   * Paramdip Singh
   * Shyam Radhey
   * Baldev Singh
   * Dilip Gurumurthy
   * Paramjit Singh
   * Nagarajan Amarnath
   * Jorawar Singh
   * Rathore Uman Singh
   * Harbhajan Singh

#### Group A

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Soviet Union (H) | 3 | 3 | 0 | 321 | 235 | +86 | 6 | Semi-final round |
| 2 | Brazil | 3 | 2 | 1 | 297 | 235 | +62 | 5 | Semi-final round |
| 3 | Czechoslovakia | 3 | 1 | 2 | 285 | 236 | +49 | 4 | Classification round |
| 4 | India | 3 | 0 | 3 | 194 | 391 | −197 | 3 | Classification round |
* 20 July 1980 20:15
* Boxscore
| India | 65–121 | Soviet Union |
| Scoring by half: 38–60, 27–61 |||
| Pts: A. Singh 22 Rebs: A. Singh 5 Asts: Han. Singh 3 | | Pts: Deryugin, Salnikov 17 Rebs: Deryugin 10 Asts: Yeryomin 5 |
* Olympiiski, Moscow
* 21 July 1980 13:00
* Boxscore
| Czechoslovakia | 133–65 | India |
| Scoring by half: 63–36, 70–29 |||
| Pts: Brabenec 28 Rebs: Douša, Kropilák 6 Asts: Pospíšil 8 | | Pts: A. Singh 35 Rebs: five players 2 Asts: Han. Singh 10 |
* Olympiiski, Moscow
* 23 July 1980 11:00
* Boxscore
| Brazil | 137–64 | India |
| Scoring by half: 65–28, 72–36 |||
| Pts: Schmidt 26 Rebs: Schmidt 13 Asts: Setrini 5 | | Pts: Shyam 32 Rebs: A. Singh 5 Asts: Han. Singh 4 |
* Olympiiski, Moscow

### Classification round

Results between Poland vs. Senegal, Australia vs. Sweden and Czechoslovakia vs. India were carried over from the preliminary round.
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts |
| 7 | Poland | 5 | 4 | 1 | 453 | 359 | +94 | 9 |
| 8 | Australia | 5 | 4 | 1 | 417 | 381 | +36 | 9 |
| 9 | Czechoslovakia | 5 | 3 | 2 | 474 | 377 | +97 | 8 |
| 10 | Sweden | 5 | 3 | 2 | 375 | 341 | +34 | 8 |
| 11 | Senegal | 5 | 1 | 4 | 345 | 396 | −51 | 6 |
| 12 | India | 5 | 0 | 5 | 329 | 539 | −210 | 5 |
* 25 July 1980 11:00
* Boxscore
| Poland | 113–67 | India |
| Scoring by half: 63–33, 50–34 |||
* CSKA Sports Palace, Moscow
* 26 July 1980 11:00
* Boxscore
| Senegal | 81–59 | India |
| Scoring by half: 37–31, 44–28 |||
* CSKA Sports Palace, Moscow
* 27 July 1980 11:00
* Boxscore
| Sweden | 119–63 | India |
| Scoring by half: 52–29, 67–34 |||
* CSKA Sports Palace, Moscow
* 28 July 1980 11:00
* Boxscore
| India | 75–93 | Australia |
| Scoring by half: 41–37, 34–56 |||
* CSKA Sports Palace, Moscow

### Boxing

Men's Light Flyweight (48 kg)
* Thapa Birender Singh
** First Round — Lost to Dietmar Geilich (East Germany) on points (2-3)
Men's Flyweight (51 kg)
* Amala Dass
** First Round — Lost to Yo Ryon-Sik (North Korea) on points (0-5)
Men's Bantamweight (54 kg)
* Ganapathy Manoharan
** First Round — Bye
** Second Round — Defeated Samba Jacob Diallo (Guinea) on points (4-1)
** Third Round — Lost to Geraldi Issaick (Tanzania) after referee stopped contest in second round

### Field hockey
#### Men's Team Competition

The original plan was for a twelve-team tournament, divided into two round-robin groups of six, with the top two of each qualifying for the semi-finals.
However, nine of the twelve teams withdrew as part of the U.S.-led boycott in response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
Argentina, Kenya, Pakistan, Malaysia, and West Germany boycotted completely, and while Australia, Great Britain, the Netherlands, and New Zealand competed in some sports, their hockey governing bodies pulled out.
The organising committee subsequently reduced the competition to six teams, the minimum required to hold a competition, with Cuba and Tanzania representing the Americas and Africa in place of Argentina and Kenya respectively, while Poland were invited as the next best team from the 1978 World Cup.
Team Roster
* Allan Schofield
* Bir Bahadur Chettri
* Dung Dung Sylvanus
* Rajinder Singh
* Devinder Singh
* Gurmail Singh
* Ravinder Pal Singh
* Vasudevan Bhaskaran
* Somaya Muttana Maneypandey
* Maharaj Krishon Kaushik
* Charanjit Kumar
* Merwyn Fernandis
* Amarjit Rana
* Mohammed Shahid
* Zafar Iqbal
* Surinder Singh Sodhi

### Preliminary

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Spain | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 33 | 3 | +30 | 9 | Gold-medal match |
| 2 | India | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 39 | 6 | +33 | 8 | Gold-medal match |
| 3 | Soviet Union | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 30 | 11 | +19 | 6 | Bronze-medal match |
| 4 | Poland | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 19 | 15 | +4 | 5 | Bronze-medal match |
| 5 | Cuba | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 42 | −35 | 2 | |
| 6 | Tanzania | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 54 | −51 | 0 | |
* 20 July 1980 12:45
| India | 18–0 | Tanzania |
| Deavinder 4', 21', 25', 27' Baskaran 15', 29', 57', 63' Shahid 17' Surinder 23', 30', 31', 34', 58' Fernandes 27' Iqbal 52', 55' Kaushik 61' | Report | |
* Minor Arena, Dynamo Stadium
* 21 July 1980 17:00
| India | 2–2 | Poland |
| Deavinder 31' Fernandes 69' | Report | Stanislawski 39' Wybieralski 65' |
* Minor Arena, Dynamo Stadium
* 23 July 1980 12:45
| Spain | 2–2 | India |
| Amat 21' Cabot 43' | Report | Surinder 15', 65' |
* Minor Arena, Dynamo Stadium
* 24 July 1980 11:00
| India | 13–0 | Cuba |
| Surinder 3', 11', 43', 64' Shahid 8', 40' Rajinder 12', 19' Amarjit 18', 35' Baskaran 22' Deavinder 30', 63' | Report | |
* Minor Arena, Dynamo Stadium
* 26 July 1980 12:45
| Soviet Union | 2–4 | India |
| Gusev 36' Zigangirov 66' | Report | Deavinder 3' Surinder 34' Shahid 41' Kaushik 64' |
* Minor Arena, Dynamo Stadium

#### Gold-medal match

* 29 July 1980 17:00
| India | 4–3 | Spain |
| S. Singh 24', 30' Kaushik 42' Shahid 58' | Report | Amat 53', 54', 65' |
* Minor Arena, Dynamo Stadium

### Women's Team Competition

* Team Roster:
   * Margaret Toscano
   * Sudha Chaudhry
   * Gangotri Bhandari
   * Rekha Mundphan
   * Rup Kumari Saini
   * Varsha Soni
   * Eliza Nelson
   * Prem Maya Sonir
   * Nazleen Madraswalla
   * Selma d'Silva
   * Lorraine Fernandes
   * Harpreet Gill
   * Balwinder Kaur Bhatia
   * Geeta Sareen
   * Nisha Sharma
   * Hutoxi Bagli

#### Preliminary

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| | Zimbabwe | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 4 | +9 | 8 |
| | Czechoslovakia | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 5 | +5 | 7 |
| | Soviet Union | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 5 | +6 | 6 |
| 4 | India | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 6 | +3 | 5 |
| 5 | Austria | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 11 | −5 | 4 |
| 6 | Poland | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 18 | −18 | 0 |
* 25 July 1980 12:45
| Austria | 0–2 | India |
| | Report | Fernandes (1) Saini (1) |
* Stadium: Young Pioneers Stadium
* 27 July 1980 13:00
| India | 4–0 | Poland |
| Saini (1) Sharma (2) Sonir (1) | Report | |
* Stadium: Minor Arena, Dynamo Stadium
* 28 July 1980 13:00
| India | 1–2 | Czechoslovakia |
| Sonir (1) | Report | Hubáčková (1) Kyselicová (1) |
* Stadium: Young Pioneers Stadium
* 30 July 1980 17:15
| India | 1–1 | Zimbabwe |
| Saini (1) | Report | Chase (1) |
* Stadium: Minor Arena, Dynamo Stadium
* 31 July 1980 15:30
| Soviet Union | 3–1 | India |
| Buzunova (2) Krasnikova (1) | Report | Saini (1) |
* Stadium: Minor Arena, Dynamo Stadium