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Throughout its history, Team India qualified for the FIBA Asia Championship 26 times and is placed in the top five in appearances in this tournament. Further, India's basketball team won four gold medals and one silver medal at the South Asian Games and is the most successful team in the South Asian region.
Reflecting this, ahead of the 1948 Olympics, the IOA Council agreed that a team representing athletics, swimming, weight lifting, wrestling, boxing, football, and hockey, with officials for each of these sports, and a Chief Manager, would be entered for the 1948 Olympics. And so, from 1948 onward, India began sending teams representing several ...
India scoring their third goal against Britain in the final of the 1948 Olympics Gold Medal-winning team from 1952 Helsinki with then Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. The men's hockey team holds multiple Olympic records in the sport: [133] [19] Most appearances : 22; Most consecutive appearances : 18 (1928 Amsterdam – 2004 Athens)
India competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics in Wembley Park, London, England. 79 competitors, all men, took part in 39 events in 10 sports. [1] It was the first time that India competed as an independent nation at the Olympic Games. Indian Team in 1948
Hockey India announced the 16-member hockey team for the Games on 18 June 2021, which included ten Olympic debutants. [106] The main event was held from 24 July to 5 August 2021 at the Oi Hockey Stadium with the matches held behind closed doors. [107] [108] India was placed in pool A in the group stage. [109]
The Olympics were delayed a year until 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. [1] It was the fourth consecutive Olympic gold medal for the Americans. Team USA qualified for the Olympics by finishing as one of the top two teams from the Americas at the FIBA Basketball World Cup in 2019. [2]
A jersey that was worn and signed by His Airness when he was a member of the Dream Team during the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona was sold at auction on Sunday night for the eye-popping price ...
The India women's national basketball team is the women's national basketball team representing India at the international level. It is controlled by the Basketball Federation of India. At the 2017 FIBA Women's Asia Cup, India was promoted to Division A after beating Kazakhstan 75–73 in the Final. [2] [3]