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This is a list of all field hockey players who have captained Indian national men's and women's field hockey team at the international level in Olympics. The list includes all Indian captains since the period of 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam. Indian hockey team 1928 Olympics Indian-Hockey-Team-Berlin-1936
Salima Tete (born 26 December 2001) is an Indian field hockey player. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] On 2 May 2023, she was named as the captain of the India women's national field hockey team. [ 3 ]
The team entered the finals after defeating the New Zealand women's national field hockey team. [13] and placed first, winning the Gold after they beat the English women's hockey team. [5] [14] [15] This event served as the inspiration for the 2007 Bollywood film about women's field hockey, Chak De!
Elvera Britto (15 June 1940 – 26 April 2022) was an Indian field hockey player who captained the Indian women's hockey team and the Mysore state's team. She captained the Mysore team for eight consecutive national titles between 1960 and 1967. Britto received the Arjuna Award, India's second highest sporting honor, in 1965.
Earlier, she also played at the 2014–15 Women's FIH Hockey World League and the Hawke's Bay Cup 2015 held in New Zealand. [5] [6] Rajani was selected as the Indian captain to lead the women's team at the inaugural the FIH Women's Hockey 5s held in Lausanne, Switzerland, from June 4 to 5. [7] [8] The player has 110 international caps to her ...
Rani Rampal, Indian field hockey team captain [20] Vinesh Phogat, freestyle wrestler [21] Manu Bhaker, airgun shooter [22] Koneru Humpy, world rapid chess champion [23] Dutee Chand, sprinter [24] In a virtual ceremony held on 8 March 2021, the BBC named Koneru Humpy as Indian Sportswoman of the Year 2020.
In 2017 August, she was selected to be a part of the India women's national field hockey team's 15-day European tour starting 5 September 2017. [9] Lakra was handed the responsibility to head the team as a captain in the Asian Champions Trophy women's hockey, which began at Donghae City, Korea in May 2018, and led the team to a second position ...
Savita Punia (born 11 July 1990) [3] is an Indian field hockey player and a member of the India women's national team. [4] She plays as the goalkeeper and is known as the Great Wall of India. [ 5 ] Her performance at the 2020 Olympics is widely appreciated.