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.^[1]

India at the 1958 Asian Games
IOC code	IND
NOC	Indian Olympic Association
in Tokyo
Medals Ranked 7th	Gold 5 Silver 4 Bronze 4 Total 13
Asian Games appearances (overview)
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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

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	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

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Burma	2–3	India
		Goswami[2] Balaram[2] Damodaran[2]

26 May

16:00

Korakuen Velodrome, Tokyo

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India	1–2	Indonesia
Rahmatullah[2] 35'		Thio Him Tjiang 11' 53'

28 May

Tokyo

Quarterfinals

Hong Kong	2–5 (a.e.t.)	India
		Rahmatullah[2] Goswami[2] Balaram[2] Damodaran[2]

30 May

Tokyo

Semifinals

India	1–3	South Korea
Damodaran[3] 67'		Choi Chung-min 13' Lee Soo-nam 75' Moon Jung-sik

31 May

National Stadium, Tokyo

Bronze medal match

Indonesia	4–1	India
Saari 10' Suratmo 59' Sunaryo 60' Phwa Sian Liong 88'		Balaram 46' (pen.)[4]

1 June

National Stadium, Tokyo

Attendance: 46,000^[4]

References

1. "Asian Games – Medal Tally" (PDF). Indian Olympic Association. Archived from the original (pdf) on 10 March 2012. Retrieved 17 May 2011.
2. Ghoshal, Amoy (17 August 2014). "Indian football team at the Asian Games: 1958 Tokyo". Sportskeeda.com. Retrieved 19 June 2016.
3. "KOREA, TAIWAN IN SOCCER FINAL". The Sunday Standard. 1 June 1958. Retrieved 13 January 2014.
4. "INDONESIA GET BRONZE MEDAL BEATING INDIA". The Indian Express. 2 June 1958. Retrieved 13 January 2014.