India competed at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States. The men's field hockey team won their second consecutive gold, which like the previous Olympic edition was India's solitary medal at the Games.
4 Indian athletes, all men, competed across 5 events in the 1932 Olympics.
Athlete
Event
Heat
Semifinals
Finals
Result
Rank
Result
Rank
Result
Rank
Bunoo Sutton
100 m
11.4 s
4th
Did not advance
110 m Hurdles
15.1 s
3rd
Unknown
4th
Did not advance
Ronald Vernieux
100 m
11.0 s
4th
Did not advance
200 m
22.8 s
4th
Did not advance
Mehar Chand Dhawan
Triple Jump
N/A
13.66m
14th
Bunoo Sutton/Ronald Vernieux/
Mehar Chand Dhawan/Dickie Carr
4 × 100 m
N/A
43.7 s
5th
Did not advance
Aquatics
Swimming
One male athlete competed.
Men
Athlete
Event
Heat
Semifinal
Final
Time
Rank
Time
Rank
Time
Rank
Nalin Malik
400 m freestyle
5:59.0
19
Did not advance
1500 m freestyle
23:52.4
15
Did not advance
Field hockey
Due to the effects of The Great Depression and the cost of travel to the United States, only 3 Field Hockey teams ended up competing at the Olympics: India, Japan and the hosts, the USA. The event then took place as a short group stage competition, with each team playing each opponent once. To finance their travel, the Indian team played exhibition matches at every stop on their long journey by sea to Los Angeles. Once there, none of the teams even came close to the ability of the Indians, as Japan were beaten 11–1 and America were thrashed 24–1 on 11 August 1932, in the deciding game. The team even rotated the entire squad between games just so that all the players would get a medal. Dickie (Richard) Carr competed in both Field Hockey and the 4 × 100 m events.
Team
Richard Allen, Muhammad Aslam, Lal Bokhari (c), Frank Brewin, Richard Carr, Dhyan Chand, Leslie Hammond, Arthur Hind, Sayed Jaffar, Masud Minhas, Broome Pinniger, Gurmit Singh Kullar, Roop Singh, William Sullivan, and Carlyle Tapsell.
Results
Pos
Team
Pld
W
D
L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
India
2
2
0
0
35
2
+33
2
Japan
2
1
0
1
10
13
−3
1
United States (H)
2
0
0
2
3
33
−30
0
Source: Sports Reference (H) Hosts
Matches
4 August 1932
India
11–1
Japan
Roop Singh (3) Kullar (3) Carr (1) Chand (4)
Inohara (1)
11 August 1932
India
24–1
United States
Roop Singh (10) Kullar (5) Pinniger (1) Chand (8)
Boddington (1)
Medalists
Gold
Richard Allen, Muhammad Aslam, Lal Bokhari, Frank Brewin, Richard Carr, Dhyan Chand, Leslie Hammond, Arthur Hind, Sayed Jaffar, Masud Minhas, Broome Pinniger, Gurmit Singh Kullar, Roop Singh, William Sullivan, and Carlyle Tapsell.
Gallery
Mehar Chand Dhawan, British India's athlete who participated in the 1932 Summer Olympics at Los Angeles. -- ACME Photo
Lal Chand Mehra, British India's official attaché during the 1932 Summer Olympics at Los Angeles.
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