India competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland.

Medalists

Gold

• Leslie Claudius, Keshav Dutt, Chinadorai Deshmutu, Randhir Singh Gentle, Kunwar Digvijai Singh, Grahanandan Singh, Ranganandhan Francis, Jaswant Rai, Balbir Singh Sr., Dharam Singh, Govind Perumal, Raghbir Lal, Udham Singh, and Muniswamy Rajgopal — Field hockey, Men's Team Competition.

Bronze

• Khashaba Jadav — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Bantamweight

Results by event

Boxing

• Sakti Mazumdar

# First Round – Defeated Nguyen Van Cua of Vietnam (DNS)

# Second Round – Lost to Han Soo-An of Korea (0 - 3)

Men's Featherweight:

• Benoy Kumar Bose

# First Round – Lost to Edson Brown of the United States (0 - 3)

Men's Welterweight:

• Ron Norris

# Second Round – Defeated Jacob Butula of Canada (TKO 3R)

# Third Round – Lost to Viktor Jörgensen of Denmark (0 - 3)

Men's Light Heavyweight:

• Oscar Alfred Ward

# First Round – Lost to Karl Kistner of Germany (KO)

Cycling

Road Competition

• Raj Kumar Mehra — did not finish (→ no ranking)
• Netai Bysack — did not finish (→ no ranking)
• Pradip Bode — did not finish (→ no ranking)
• Suprovat Chakravarty — did not finish (→ no ranking)

Track Competition

• Suprovat Chakravarty

* Final — 1:26.0 (→ 27th and last place)

Men's 1.000m Sprint Scratch Race

• Netai Bysack — 24th place