1956 Olympians from India

By sport

The full list - Men:

  1. (19200) Balbir Singh, Sr. (IND/HOC/1948-56)
  2. (19200) Randhir Singh Gentle (IND/HOC/1948-56)
  3. (13800) Leslie Claudius (IND/HOC/1948-60)
  4. (13800) Udham Singh (IND/HOC/1952-64)
  5. (12600) Shankar Laxman (IND/HOC/1956-64)
  6. (9600) Amir Kumar (IND/HOC/1948,56)
  7. (6400) Govind Perumal (IND/HOC/1952-56)
  8. (6400) Raghbir Lal (IND/HOC/1952-56)
  9. (6000) Ranganathan Francis (IND/HOC/1948-56)
  10. (5200) Raghbir Singh Bhola (IND/HOC/1956-60)
  11. (5000) Hari Pal Kaushik (IND/HOC/1956,64)
  12. (3200) Bakshish Singh (IND/HOC/1956)
  13. (3200) Gurdev Singh (IND/HOC/1956)
  14. (2000) Charles Stephen (IND/HOC/1956)
  15. (1616) Milkha Singh (IND/ATH/1956-64)
  16. (807.8) Sheikh Abdul Latif (IND/FOO/1952-60)
  17. (807.3) Mariappa Kempiah (IND/FOO/1956-60)
  18. (807.3) Peter Thangaraj (IND/FOO/1956-60)
  19. (807.3) PK Banerjee (IND/FOO/1956-60)
  20. (807.3) Tulasidas Balaram (IND/FOO/1956-60)
  21. (800.6) Sayed Khwaja Aziz-ud-Din (IND/FOO/1952-56)
  22. (800.0) Abdul Rehman (IND/FOO/1956)
  23. (800.0) Amit Singh Bakshi (IND/HOC/1956)
  24. (800.0) Balkrishan Singh (IND/HOC/1956)
  25. (800.0) Hardayal Singh (IND/HOC/1956)
  26. (800.0) Hussain Ahmed (IND/FOO/1956)
  27. (800.0) Krishna Kittu (IND/FOO/1956)
  28. (800.0) Krishna Pal (IND/FOO/1956)
  29. (800.0) Muhammad Kannayan (IND/FOO/1956)
  30. (800.0) Muhammad Noor (IND/FOO/1956)
  31. (800.0) Muhammad Salaam (IND/FOO/1956)
  32. (800.0) Neville D'Souza (IND/FOO/1956)
  33. (800.0) Nikhil Nandy (IND/FOO/1956)
  34. (800.0) Samar Banerjee (IND/FOO/1956)
  35. (800.0) Subramaniam Narayan (IND/FOO/1956)
  36. (600.0) Baban Daware (IND/WRF/1956)
  37. (384.0) Ram Sarup (IND/WRF/1956)
  38. (384.0) Tarashkeswar Pandey (IND/WRF/1956)
  39. (249.6) Dandamudi Rajagopal (IND/WEI/1948,56)
  40. (240.0) Bakshish Singh (IND/WRF/1956)
  41. (150.0) Lila Ram (IND/WRF/1956)
  42. (97.50) Kamineni Eswara Rao (IND/WEI/1952-56)
  43. (96.00) Devi Singh (IND/WRF/1956)
  44. (60.00) Valli Asari Mookan (IND/WEI/1956)
  45. (24.00) Ajit Singh (IND/ATH/1956)
  46. (17.40) Shamsher Khan (IND/SWI/1956)
  47. (15.00) Lakhshmi Kant Pandey (IND/WRF/1956)
  48. (15.00) Mohinder Singh (IND/ATH/1956)
  49. (7.432) Sohan Singh (IND/ATH/1952-56)
  50. (0.640) Anant Ram (IND/GYM/1956,64)
  51. (0.600) Ram Mehar (IND/ATH/1956)
  52. (0.546) Sri Chand Ram (IND/ATH/1956)
  53. (0.258) Harihar Banerjee (IND/SHO/1952-56)
  54. (0.137) Jagdev Singh (IND/ATH/1956)
  55. (-2.16) Sri Chand Bajaj (IND/SWI/1956)
  56. (-3.26) Haricharan Shaw (IND/SHO/1956)
  57. (-7.21) Pritam Singh (IND/GYM/1956)
  58. (-7.15) Sham Lal (IND/GYM/1956)

The full list - Women:

  1. (-2.16) Mary Rao (IND/ATH/1956)

Men who competed before:

  1. (19200) Balbir Singh, Sr. (IND/HOC/1948-56)
  2. (19200) Randhir Singh Gentle (IND/HOC/1948-56)
  3. (13800) Leslie Claudius (IND/HOC/1948-60)
  4. (13800) Udham Singh (IND/HOC/1952-64)
  5. (9600) Amir Kumar (IND/HOC/1948,56)
  6. (6400) Govind Perumal (IND/HOC/1952-56)
  7. (6400) Raghbir Lal (IND/HOC/1952-56)
  8. (6000) Ranganathan Francis (IND/HOC/1948-56)
  9. (807.8) Sheikh Abdul Latif (IND/FOO/1952-60)
  10. (800.6) Sayed Khwaja Aziz-ud-Din (IND/FOO/1952-56)
  11. (249.6) Dandamudi Rajagopal (IND/WEI/1948,56)
  12. (97.50) Kamineni Eswara Rao (IND/WEI/1952-56)
  13. (7.432) Sohan Singh (IND/ATH/1952-56)
  14. (0.258) Harihar Banerjee (IND/SHO/1952-56)

full list for India

Written 2020-03-24 - last modified 2020-03-24

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