India competed at the 1978 Asian Games held in Bangkok, Thailand. India ranked 6th with 11 gold medals.[1][2]
| India at the 1978 Asian Games | |
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| IOC code | IND |
| NOC | Indian Olympic Association |
| in Bangkok | |
| Medals Ranked 6th |
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| Asian Games appearances (overview) | |
Medals by sport edit
| Sport | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Athletics | 8 | 7 | 3 | 18 |
| Boxing | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Hockey | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Sailing | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Wrestling | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Shooting | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Tennis | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Total | 11 | 11 | 6 | 28 |
Football edit
Head coach: 
Arun Ghosh[3]
| No. | Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Caps | Goals | Club |
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| GK | Bhaskar Ganguly | East Bengal
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| GK | Bhaskar Maity | Bengal
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| GK | Surjit Singh | |||||
| DF | Gurdev Singh Gill (c) | 20 April 1950 (aged 24) | East Bengal
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| DF | Chinmoy Chatterjee | East Bengal
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| DF | Shyamal Banerjee | Bengal
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| DF | Compton Dutta | Bengal
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| DF | Subrata Bhattacharya | 3 March 1953 (aged 21) | Mohun Bagan
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| DF | Nicholas Pereira | |||||
| DF | D. Sekaran | |||||
| DF | Gurcharan Singh Parmar | |||||
| MF | Prasun Banerjee | 6 April 1955 (aged 19) | East Bengal
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| MF | Pushparaj Kumar | Karnataka
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| MF | A. Devraj Doraiswamy | Karnataka
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| MF | M.M. Jacob | |||||
| MF | Thomas Fernandes | |||||
| FW | Xavier Pius | |||||
| FW | Francis D'Souza | |||||
| FW | Mohammed Akbar | |||||
| FW | Harjinder Singh | JCT Mills
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| FW | Surajit Sengupta | 30 August 1951 (aged 23) | East Bengal
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| FW | Bidesh Ranjan Bose | 15 November 1953 (aged 21) | Bengal
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Preliminary round edit
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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 Malaysia
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2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | +2 | 4 |
| India
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2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | +2 | 2 |
 Bangladesh
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2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | −4 | 0 |
| Bangladesh | 0–3 | India |
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Semifinals edit
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 North Korea
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3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | +3 | 5 |
 Iraq
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3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 1 | +5 | 4 |
 Kuwait
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3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 6 | +2 | 3 |
| India
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3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 12 | −10 | 0 |
| India | 1–3 | North Korea |
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Field hockey edit
Team edit
Salim Abbasi
Vasudevan Baskaran
Pramod Batlaw
Sylvanus Dung Dung
Merwyn Fernandes
Olympio Fernandes
B. P. Govinda
Sukhbir Singh Grewal
Zafar Iqbal
Ashok Kumar
Victor Philips
Surjit Singh Randhawa
Allan Schofield
Ranbir Singh
Varinder Singh
Surinder Singh Sodhi
Preliminary round edit
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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| India
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3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 4 | +12 | 6 |
| Malaysia
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3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 5 | +6 | 4 |
 Sri Lanka
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3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 8 | −4 | 2 |
 Hong Kong
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3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 16 | −14 | 0 |
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Semifinals edit
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Gold medal match edit
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References edit
- ^ "Indian football team at the Asian Games: 1978 Bangkok". Retrieved 8 April 2023.
- ^ "Will India be able to maintain its 1978 Asiad momentum till 1982 Games in Delhi?". Retrieved 8 April 2023.
- ^ Ghoshal, Amoy. "Indian football team at the Asian Games: 1978 Bangkok". www.sportskeeda.com. Retrieved 28 August 2022.
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