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  1. Vijay Kumar

    Vijay Kumar is an Indian Shooter. He won two gold medals in the Men's 25m Rapid Fire Pistol (Pairs) with Pemba Tamang & the Men's 25m Rapid Fire Pistol at the 2006 Commonwealth Games.

  2. Ahmed Khan

    Ahmed Sher Khan (born November 1, 1912 - died March 13, 1967) was an Indian field hockey player who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. He was a member of the Indian field hockey team, which won the gold medal. He played one match as forward.

  3. Mohammed Hussain

    Mohammed Hussain (born October 01, 1911 - died February 28, 1977) was an Indian field hockey player who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. He was a member of the Indian field hockey team, which won the gold medal. He played four matches (including the final) as back.

  4. Syed Ali

    Syed Ali (born April 15, 1938) is a former field hockey player from India, who won the gold medal with the Men's National Team at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.

  5. Dharam Singh

    Dharam Singh (born January 19, 1919 - died December 5, 2001 in Chandigarh) was a famous field hockey player from India, who was the oldest Olympic gold medalist in history, when he was 45 years old as a member of the winning Indian side in 1964. Born at Gandiwind in the Amritsar district, Dharam Singh had a passion for hockey since childhood. Running barefoot with a stick and ball on the dusty village streets, he displayed strong motivation to don national colours.

  6. Zafar Iqbal

    Zafar Iqbal is an Indian field hockey player. He played Left Out with Indian blue jersey number 11. Iqbal hails from a learned family. His father was a learned Professor and Head of the Department of Chemistry at Aligarh Muslim University. His elder brother is an accomplished researcher presently working at King saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. His sister is an accomplished Doctor, a gynaecologist with exceptionally good academic record at AMU, …

  7. Vivek Singh

    Vivek Singh is an Indian shooter. He won the gold & silver medal in the Men's 10m Air Pistol (Pairs) & Men's 50m Pistol (Pairs) at the 2002 Commonwealth Games with Samaresh Jung. He also won the silver lanth tha saala medal in the Men's 10m Air Pistol at the 2006 Commonwealth Games.

  8. Dhyan Chand

    Major Dhyan Chand Singh was a former Indian hockey player and is often regarded as the greatest player ever to play the game. He was part of the Gold winning Indian team in three Olympic Games (1928 Amsterdam, 1932 Los Angeles, 1936 Berlin). He was awarded the Padma Bhushan, India's third highest civilian honour, in 1956. He got the title "Chand" or (moon) from his first coach, Pankaj Gupta, who had predicted that he would one day shine like a "chand" or moon.

  9. Richard Allen

    Richard James Allen (born June 4, 1902 - died ?) was an Indian field hockey player who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics, in the 1932 Summer Olympics, and in the 1936 Summer Olympics. He was a member of the Indian field hockey team, which won the first three consecutive gold medal between 1928 and 1936. In 1936 he played four matches as goalkeeper.

  10. Feroze Khan

    Feroze Khan (Urdu: فیروز خان was, at the time of his death, the world oldest Olympic gold medal winner, following the death of U.S. athlete James Rockefeller in 2004. He was part of India's Olympic hockey team at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, which won the gold medal for the event. After his death, Roger Beaufrand of France became the oldest living Olympic gold medal winner.

  11. Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore

    Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore (born January 29, 1970 in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan) is a shooter who won India's first individual silver medal in the 2004 Summer Olympics. His event was the Men's Double Trap. In 2005 Commonwealth Shooting Championships in Melbourne, he was the member of the winning team in the double trap event. He won the gold in the individual and team events in Men's double trap at the 2005 Asian Clay Shooting championships at Bangkok.

  12. Akhtar Hussain

    Akhtar Hussain (Urdu: اختر حسین was a field hockey player, who won the gold medal at the 1948 Summer Olympics for India and the silver medal at the 1956 Summer Olympics for Pakistan.

  13. Abhinav Bindra

    Abhinav Bindra (b.1983) is a shooting sports person from India specialising in the field of Air rifle. He was the youngest Indian participant at the 2000 Olympic Games. He won six gold medals at various international meets in 2001. In the Air rifle event at the 2002 Commonwealth Games, Manchester, he won Gold in the Pairs event and Silver in the individual event. At the 2004 Olympic Games, he broke the Olympic record but failed to win a medal.

  14. Jaspal Rana

    Jaspal Rana was born 28 June 1976 in the Uttarkashi District of Uttarakhand, India. He is an Indian shooter who specializes in the 25m Centre Fire Pistol category. He grew up in Delhi, studying at the K.V. Air Force School, and at St. Stephen's and Sri Aurobindo colleges. His earliest guru was his father, Shri Narayan Singh Rana, who was a Border Security Force official. Later on, Sunny Thomas and Tibor Ganazol coached him to perfection.

  15. Walter D'Souza

    Walter D'Souza was an Indian field hockey player.

  16. Kishan Lal

    Kishan Lal (born February 2, 1917 - died June 23, 1980) was a famous Indian field hockey player. He captained the Indian hockey team in 1948, which won its first gold at the Olympics as an independent country, defeating Great Britain in the final: 4-0.

  17. Gagan Narang

    Gagan Narang is an Indian shooter.

  18. K. D. Singh

    Kunwar Digvijay Singh (February 2, 1922 in Barabanki - March 27, 1978) popularly known as "K.D.Singh" or "Babu" was a famous Indian field hockey player. In 1948, he was selected for the Indian hockey team for the Olympic Games, with Kishan Lal as captain and "Babu" as vice-captain. India as an independent nation won their first Olympic hockey gold. In 1960 he was awarded the Padmashri award. The stadium in Lucknow city is named after him. He committed suicide.

  19. Jaipal Singh

    Jaipal Singh Munda (born January 3, 1903 - died March 20, 1970) is Munda tribal man, who captained Indian field hockey team to clinch gold in the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. He is well known for his sportsmanship and political skills. Later he emerged as a sole leader of Adivasi cause and creation of a separate home land for adivasis of cental India. As a member of the Constituent Assembly of Indiahe actively campainged for the rights of the scheduled tribes.

  20. Gurbux Singh

    Gurbux ("Gurbaksh") Singh (born February 11, 1936) is a former field hockey player from India, who was a member of the India national field hockey team, that won the gold medal at the 1964 Summer Olympics. Four years later he captured the bronze. In 1976 he was the head coach of the national squad, that finished in seventh place at the 1976 Summer Olympics.

  21. Karnam Malleswari

    Karnam Malleswari (born June 1 1975) is an Indian Weightlifter. She won a bronze medal in the 2000 Summer Olympics at Sydney, which made her the first Indian woman to win an Olympic medal. She is a recipient of the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award, India's highest sporting honour for the year 1995-1996. She is also a recipient of the civilian honour Padma Shri in 1999.

  22. Kunjarani Devi

    Nameirakpam Kunjarani Devi (born March 1, 1968) is an Indian sportswoman in weightlifting. She competed in the 48 kg category towards the later part of her career, and served a six-month suspension after testing positive to anabolic steroids during 2001. She is a recipient of Arjuna award in 1990 and shared the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award with Leander Paes for the year 1996-1997. She has more than fifty international medals to her credit.

  23. Bakshish Singh

    Bakshish Singh (born June 14, 1929) is an Indian hockey player who won the gold medal at the 1956 Summer Olympics.

  24. Samaresh Jung

    Samaresh Jung (born 5 May, 1970) is a shooting sportsman from India specialising in the field of Air pistol, apart from other fields. At the 2002 Commonwealth Games, Manchester, he won two Gold medals, in the Men's free pistol pairs and in the Open event of 25 m standard pistol pairs, both in partnership with Jaspal Rana. He received the Arjuna award in 2002. He is employed with the CISF and lives in New Delhi.

  25. Geeta Rani

    Geeta Rani is an Indian Weightlifter. She won the gold medal in the Women's +75 kg category at the 2006 Commonwealth Games.

  26. Vasudevan Baskaran

    Vasudevan Baskaran is a former field hockey player from India. He captained the Indian team, which won the gold medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Soviet Union. He was awarded the Arjuna Award for (1979-1980). Baskaran coached the Indian National Team after his active career several times, the last time at the 2006 Men's Hockey World Cup in Mönchengladbach, where India finished in a disappointing eleventh place.

  27. Balbir Singh Sr.

    Balbir Singh Sr. (born October 10, 1924 in Haripur, Punjab) is a retired field hockey player from India, who has been a member of three Olympic gold medal winning teams. He was the flagbearer of the Indian Olympic Contingent at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics and 1956 Melbourne Olympics. In 1957, he became the first hockey player to be awarded the Padma Shri.

  28. Leslie Claudius

    Leslie Walter Claudius (born March 25 1927 in Bilaspur) was an Indian field hockey player, of Anglo-Indian descent. In 1971 he was awarded the Padma Shri. He is in the Guinness Book of World Records along with Udham Singh for having won the maximum number of Olympic medals in field hockey.

  29. Leo Pinto

    Leo Pinto (born April 11, 1914) was a field hockey goalkeeper from India, who won the golden medal with the Men's National Team at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. He started his hockey career in Mumbai at the age of thirteen, when he played for the Byculla Rovers in the 1927 Aga Khan Hockey Tournament. He went on to participate in 27 Aga Khan tournaments in a row. A Goan from Mapusa, Pinto was made manager of the Tata Sports Club hockey team even while he was a player.

  30. Tejaswini Sawant

    Tejaswini Sawant (born: 12 September, 1980) is an Indian shooter from the Maharashtrian city of Kolhapur. In 2006, she won gold medals in Women's 10m Air Rifle singles and Women's 10m Air Rifle Pairs (with Avneet Kaur Sidhu) events at the Commonwealth Games at Melbourne. She was selected to represent India at Commonwealth Games ahead of Asian Games gold medallist Anjali Ved Pathak Bhagwat and world record holder Suma Shirur after winning 5 gold medals, …

  31. Pemba Tamang

    Pemba Tamang is an Indian Shooter. He won the gold medal in the Men's 25m Rapid Fire Pistol (Pairs) with Vijay Kumar & the silver medal in the Men's 25m Rapid Fire Pistol at the 2006 Commonwealth Games.

  32. Ali Shaukat

    Ali Shaukat (born October 6, 1897 - died February 25, 1960) was an Indian field hockey player who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics. He was a member of the Indian field hockey team, which won the gold medal. He played three matches as forward and scored two goals.

  33. Joseph Phillips

    Joseph "Joe" Phillips (born March 24, 1911 - died 1986) was an Indian field hockey player who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. He was a member of the Indian field hockey team, which won the gold medal. He played one match as back.

  34. Ronak Pandit

    Ronak Pandit is an Indian shooter. He won the gold medal in the Men's 25m Standard Pistol (Pairs) with Samaresh Jung at the 2006 Commonwealth Games.

  35. Anuja Jung

    Anuja Jung is an Indian Shooter. She won the gold medal in the Women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions & the silver medal in Women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions (Pairs) with Anjali Bhagwat at the 2006 Commonwealth Games. She is the wife of Samaresh Jung, a reputed shooting sportsperson from India.

  36. Neelam Jaswant Singh

    Neelam Jaswant Singh (born 8 January 1971 in Farmana) is an Indian discus thrower. Her personal best throw is 64.55 metres, achieved at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan. During the 2005 World Championships she tested positive for the banned stimulant pemoline in an in-competition test.

  37. Ananya Khare

    Ananya Khare (born in March 16 1968 in Ratlam, India) is a Bollywood actress starring in supporting roles of several successful movies, including Chandni Bar and Devdas. She also starred in television serials for almost two decades before her big screen success. She was awarded an Indian National Award for best supporting actress for her role in Chandni Bar and subsequently nominated for her role in Devdas. Her father is renowned poet, journalist and lecturer, Vishnu Khare.

  38. Randhir Singh Gentle

    Randhir Singh Gentle (born September 22, 1922 - died September 25, 1981) was a famous Indian field hockey player.

  39. Keshav Dutt

    Keshav Chandra Dutt (born December 29, 1925) was a famous Indian field hockey player. <references/

  40. Sushma Rana

    Sushma Rana is a professional Indian shooter. She competes in 25-metre shooting events. She is the younger sister of Jaspal Rana. She has held the national record for 25-metre shooting event at least from 2002 to 2003. She competed in the 2006 Commonwealth Games at Melbourne and won a gold in the 25m women's pair shooting event with Saroja Kumari Jhuthu.

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