Surinder Singh Sodhi (field hockey)

Indian field hockey player

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

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


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India squad – 1978 Asian Games – Silver medal
  • 1 Salim Abbasi
  • 2 Vasudevan Baskaran
  • 3 Pramod Batlaw
  • 4 Sylvanus Dung Dung
  • 5 Mervyn Fernandis
  • 6 Olympio Fernandes
  • 7 B. P. Govinda
  • 8 Sukhbir Singh Grewal
  • 9 Zafar Iqbal
  • 10 Ashok Kumar
  • 11 Victor Philips
  • 12 Surjit Singh Randhawa
  • 13 Allan Schofield
  • 14 Ranbir Singh
  • 15 Varinder Singh
  • 16 Surinder Singh Sodhi
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India squad – 1980 Summer Olympics – Gold medal (8th Title)
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India squad – 1982 Champions Trophy – 3rd place
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