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Joginder Singh

Died
November 6, 2002
Age
62 years

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Joginder Singh, 62, Indian field hockey player and Olympic champion (1960, 1964).

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Joginder Singh (3 August 1939 – 6 November 2002), nicknamed "Gindi", was an Indian hockey player.

Career

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.

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