Joginder Singh (field hockey)
Appearance
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Olympic Games | ||
1960 Rome | Team | |
1964 Tokyo | Team | |
Asian Games | ||
1962 Jakarta | Team |
Joginder Singh (3 August 1939 – 6 November 2002), nicknamed "Gindi",[1] was an Indian hockey player. Playing in the right-wing position, he won the silver medal with his team at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome and the 1962 Asian Games in Jakarta, and then the gold medal at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. He was born in Delhi.
After retiring, he settled in Kolkata, where he worked as a sports officer for the Bengal Nagpur Railway (BNR), which was later renamed the South Eastern Railway (SER).[citation needed]
He died at age 63 after a protracted kidney illness.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Gindi Singh Archived 2012-12-17 at the Wayback Machine, Sports Reference
- ^ Obituary[usurped]
External links
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Categories:
- 1939 births
- 2002 deaths
- Field hockey players from Delhi
- Field hockey players from Kolkata
- Olympic field hockey players for India
- Olympic gold medalists for India
- Olympic silver medalists for India
- Field hockey players at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- Field hockey players at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- Indian male field hockey players
- Olympic medalists in field hockey
- Asian Games medalists in field hockey
- Field hockey players at the 1962 Asian Games
- Medalists at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- Asian Games silver medalists for India
- Medalists at the 1962 Asian Games
- Indian field hockey biography stubs
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