Sohrab Bhoot

• Manager of India's first Olympic team at the 1920 Olympics in Antwerp. He was also a selector and administrator for the Indian team at four other Olympics.
• President of the National Cycling Federation of India. Bhoot and Jankidas co-founded this in 1946. Under Bhoot's management, the Indian cycling team made its Olympic debut at the 1948 Olympics in London. Bhoot also served as President of the Asian Cycling Federation. Overall, he took the Indian cycling team to several international cycling events and world cycling championships from the late 1940s until the early 1960s.
• General Secretary of the Bombay Provincial Olympic Association—-in this capacity he was also Organising Secretary for, and played a major role in organising and administering, the 1950 Indian national games at Bombay. Bhoot was also on several committees of the Bombay Olympic Association and was an organiser of the 1940 Indian national games in Bombay. Further, he was an official at other Indian national games and athletics championships--for example, he was one of the approximately 20 members of the 'Jury of Honour and Appeal' at the Indian national games in 1948 and 1944 and at several Indian athletics championships such as the 14th championships in 1949.
• A key organiser of the 1951 Asian games.
• Secretary of the Technical Committee for the Athletics Federation of India.
• Member of the managing committee, as well as treasurer, of the Indian Olympic Association.
• Editor of the Sports Herald.

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