India at the 1970 Asian Games

India at the 1970 Asian Games
IOC code	IND
NOC	Indian Olympic Association
in Bangkok
Medals Ranked 5th	Gold 6 Silver 9 Bronze 10 Total 25
Asian Games appearances (overview)
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India participated in the 1970 Asian Games, held in the Bangkok, Thailand from December 9, 1970, to December 20, 1970. Indian athletes won total a 25 medals including six golds and finished at the fifth position in the medal's table.^[1][2]

Medals by sport

Sport	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Athletics	4	5	5	14
Boxing	1	1	0	2
Football	0	0	1	1
Hockey	0	1	0	1
Water polo	0	1	0	1
Wrestling	1	1	3	5
Sailing	0	0	1	1
Total	6	9	10	25

Football

Head coach: G M H Basha

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
	1GK	Kuppuswami Sampath				Madras Engineering Group
	1GK	Bandya Kakade				Bombay
	2DF	Altaf Ahmed				Bengal
	2DF	Syed Nayeemuddin (c)				Mohun Bagan
	2DF	PM Shivdas				Bombay
	2DF	Sudhir Karmakar				East Bengal
	2DF	Chandreshwar Prasad				Mohun Bagan
	2DF	Kalyan Saha				Bengal
	2DF	NIrmal Sengupta				Bengal
	3MF	Hishey "Jerry" Basi				Bombay
	3MF	Abdul Latif				Bengal
	3MF	Doraiswamy Nataraj				Mysore
	3MF	Ajaib Singh				Punjab
	4FW	Amar Bahadur	(1942-04-18)18 April 1942 (aged 28)			Mafatlal SC
	4FW	Subhash Bhowmick	(1950-10-02)2 October 1950 (aged 20)			East Bengal
	4FW	Sukalyan Ghosh Dastidar				Mohun Bagan
	4FW	Mohammed Habib	(1949-07-17)17 July 1949 (aged 21)			East Bengal
	4FW	Magan Singh Rajvi				Rajasthan
	4FW	Manjit Singh				Leaders Club
	4FW	Shyam Thapa	(1948-05-01)1 May 1948 (aged 22)			Gorkha Brigade

Preliminary round

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
India	2	1	1	0	4	2	+2	3
Thailand	2	1	1	0	3	2	+1	3
South Vietnam	2	0	0	2	0	3	−3	0

10 December

India	2–2	Thailand
Bhowmick 35', 57'		Sahas 13' Preecha 21'

Bangkok

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11 December

India	2–0	South Vietnam
Habib 76' Rajvi 85'

Bangkok

Quarterfinals

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Japan	2	2	0	0	3	1	+2	4
India	2	1	0	1	3	1	+2	2
Indonesia	2	0	0	2	1	5	−4	0

15 December

India	3–0	Indonesia
Nataraj 74' Rajvi 79' Thapa 83'

Bangkok

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17 December

Japan	1–0	India
Kimura 88'	Report

Bangkok

Semifinals

18 December

Burma	2–0	India
Ye Nyunt 15', 48'

Bangkok

Bronze medal match

19 December

Japan	0–1	India
	Report	Manjit Singh 36'

Bangkok

References

1. "Asian Games – Medal Tally" (PDF). Indian Olympic Association. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 10, 2012. Retrieved May 18, 2011.
2. "Overall medal standings – Bangkok 1970". Olympic Council of Asia. Archived from the original on June 16, 2010. Retrieved May 18, 2011.