Surinder Singh Sodhi (field hockey)

(Redirected from Surinder Singh Sodhi (Field Hockey)) Indian field hockey player

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.

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

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.

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

References

"India's Beijing hopes shattered". 10 March 2008 – via The Economic Times - The Times of India.
List of Goals scored by Sikh at Olympic Hockey
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.

v t e 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

v t e India squad – 1980 Summer Olympics – Gold medal (8th Title)
1 Schofield (GK) 2 Chettri 3 Dung Dung 4 R. Singh 5 D. Singh 6 G. Singh 7 R. P. Singh 8 Baskaran (c) 9 Somaya 10 Kaushik 11 Kumar 12 Fernandes 13 Rana 14 Shahid 15 Iqbal 16 Sodhi Coach: Balkrishan Singh

v t e India squad – 1982 Champions Trophy – 3rd place
1 Romeo James 2 Rajinder Singh Jr. 3 Manohar Topno 4 M. M. Somaya 5 Joaquim Carvalho 6 Stanselas Bara 7 Charanjit Kumar 8 Mervyn Fernandis 9 Surinder Singh Sodhi (c) 10 Mohammed Shahid 11 Zafar Iqbal 12 Anand Mandapaka 13 Tejinder Singh 14 Gurmail Singh 15 Jagdeep Singh 16 Jalaluddin Rizvi

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