India at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Artistic Gymnastics

Individual All-Around, Men Pritam Singh 61
Sham Lal 62
Anant Ram 63
Floor Exercise, Men Pritam Singh 59
Sham Lal 61
Anant Ram 62
Horse Vault, Men Sham Lal 60
Pritam Singh 62
Anant Ram 63
Parallel Bars, Men Pritam Singh 61
Sham Lal 62
Anant Ram 63
Horizontal Bar, Men Pritam Singh 59
Sham Lal 60
Anant Ram 61
Rings, Men Sham Lal 61
Pritam Singh 62
Anant Ram 63
Pommelled Horse, Men Pritam Singh 60
Sham Lal 61
Anant Ram 63

Athletics

200 metres, Men Milkha Singh 4 h2 r1/4
400 metres, Men Milkha Singh 4 h5 r1/4
800 metres, Men Sohan Singh 4 h3 r1/3
110 metres Hurdles, Men Sri Chand Ram 6 h4 r1/3
400 metres Hurdles, Men Jagdev Singh 5 h2 r1/3
High Jump, Men Ajit Singh 14
Long Jump, Men Ram Mehar 22 r1/2
Mohinder Singh DNS
Triple Jump, Men Mohinder Singh 15
100 metres, Women Mary Rao AC h1 r1/3
80 metres Hurdles, Women Mary Rao DNS

Football

Football, Men India 4
Hussain AhmedKrishna KittuKrishna PalMuhammad KannayanMuhammad SalaamMuhammad NoorNeville D'SouzaNikhil NandyPeter ThangarajPK BanerjeeSamar BanerjeeSheikh Abdul LatifSubramaniam NarayanSayed Khwaja Aziz-ud-DinAbdul RehmanTulasidas BalaramMariappa KempaiahMohammed Zulfiqaruddin (DNS)

Hockey

Hockey, Men India 1 Gold
Shankar LaxmanBakshish SinghRandhir Singh GentleLeslie ClaudiusAmir KumarGovind PerumalRaghbir LalGurdev SinghBalbir Singh, Sr.Udham SinghRaghbir Singh BholaCharles StephenRanganathan FrancisBalkrishan SinghAmit Singh BakshiHari Pal KaushikHardayal SinghO. P. Malhotra (DNS)

Shooting

Small-Bore Rifle, Three Positions, 50 metres, Men Harihar Banerjee 35
Haricharan Shaw 38

Swimming

100 metres Freestyle, Men Shrichand Bajaj 34
400 metres Freestyle, Men Shrichand Bajaj DNS
200 metres Breaststroke, Men Shamsher Khan 15
200 metres Butterfly, Men Shamsher Khan 19

Weightlifting

Bantamweight, Men Valli Asari Mookan 12
Middle-Heavyweight, Men Kamineni Eswara Rao 11
Heavyweight, Men Dandamudi Rajagopal 9

Wrestling

Flyweight, Freestyle, Men Baban Daware AC
Bantamweight, Freestyle, Men Tarashkeswar Pandey AC
Featherweight, Freestyle, Men Ram Sarup AC
Lightweight, Freestyle, Men Lakhshmi Kant Pandey AC
Welterweight, Freestyle, Men Devi Singh AC
Middleweight, Freestyle, Men Bakshish Singh AC
Heavyweight, Freestyle, Men Lila Ram AC