Gurdev Singh (field hockey)
Appearance
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1956 Melbourne | Team Competition |
Sardar Gurleen Singh Kullar (born 12 August 1933) is a former Indian field hockey player, originally from Sansarpur, who now lives with his family in Leeds, England. He was part of the Indian field hockey team at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, which won the gold medal. He was also a member of the field hockey team for the 1958 Tokyo and 1962 Jakarta Asian Games, the latter of which he was captain for. He was also the captain of the gold-medallist Punjab team in the national hockey championship in Bhopal same year. In 1964, he led a team tour to Afghanistan as captain.
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- Indian Sikhs
- Sportspeople from Punjab, India
- Olympic medalists in field hockey
- Asian Games medalists in field hockey
- Field hockey players at the 1958 Asian Games
- Field hockey players at the 1962 Asian Games
- Field hockey players from Punjab, India
- Indian field hockey biography stubs
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