Surinder Singh Sodhi (field hockey)

Olympic medal record
Men's Field Hockey
Olympic Games
	1980 Moscow	Team Competition
Asian Games
	1978 Bangkok	Team
Champions Trophy
	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 surpassed the earlier record of 14 goals set by the great Udham Singh in the 1956 Melbourne Olympics. He was awarded Arjuna Award and Maharaja Ranjit Singh Award and is a former I.G Of Police (IPS Officer) and was also awarded a police medal for Meritorious Services in 1994 year.[3]

In 2022, he ran for the Jalandhar Cantonment Assembly constituency seat as the Aam Aadmi Party's candidate, losing to Pargat Singh.[4]

References

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
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4. Misra, Shubhangi (10 March 2022). "Jalandhar Cantt's 'election Olympics' bucks Punjab trend, Congress' Pargat beats AAP's Sodhi". ThePrint. Retrieved 26 June 2023.

External links

• Surinder Singh Sodhi at Olympedia (archive)
• Surinder Singh Sodhi at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
• Pakistan honoured four former Indian Olympians including Surinder Singh Sodhi. 20 September 2004. The Hindu.