Surinder Singh Sodhi (field hockey)

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Olympic medal record
Men's field hockey
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 1980 Moscow Team Competition
Asian Games
Silver medal – second place 1978 Bangkok Team
Champions Trophy
Bronze medal – third place 1982 Amstelveen

Surinder Singh Sodhi (born 22 June 1957) is a former field hockey player from India. He is famous for playing a major role in getting India the gold medal in 1980 Olympic games after a gap of 16 years. He played in the center forward position.[1]

In previous games Surinder Singh Sodhi scored 5 goals against Tanzania and 4 goals against Cuba.[2]

The 15 goals scored by him in the 1980 Moscow Olympics is the second highest goals at the games and highest tally by an Indian in an Olympic hockey competition. It equalised the earlier record of 15 goals set by the great Udham Singh in the 1956 Melbourne Olympics.

In 2022, he ran for the Jalandhar Cantonment Assembly constituency seat as the Aam Aadmi Party's candidate, losing to Pargat Singh.[3]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "India's Beijing hopes shattered". 10 March 2008 – via The Economic Times - The Times of India.
  2. ^ List of Goals scored by Sikh at Olympic Hockey
  3. ^ Misra, Shubhangi (10 March 2022). "Jalandhar Cantt's 'election Olympics' bucks Punjab trend, Congress' Pargat beats AAP's Sodhi". ThePrint. Retrieved 26 June 2023.

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