List of Indian field hockey captains in Olympic Games 1928-2022

List of Indian field hockey captains in Olympic Games (1928-2022)

Here is a list of all Indian men's hockey team captains who represented the Indian men's hockey team at the Olympic Games. There are a total of 21 players who have led the Indian team in the Olympics since 1928. This is a list of all the field hockey players who have captained the Indian men's hockey team at the Olympics.

List of Indian Men's Hockey Team Captains in Olympics

Captain Name	Olympics	Rank in Olympic
1.Jaipal Singh Munda	Amsterdam Olympics 1928	Gold medal
2. Lal Shah Bokhari	Los Angeles Olympics 1932	Gold medal
3. Dhyan Chand	Berlin Olympics 1936	Gold medal
4. Kishan Lal	London Olympics 1948	Gold medal
5.K. D. Singh	Helsinki Olympics 1952	Gold medal
6. Balbir Singh Senior	Melbourne Olympics 1956	Gold medal
7.Leslie Claudius	Rome Olympics 1960	Silver medal
8. Charanjit Singh	Tokyo Olympics 1964	Gold medal
9.Gurbux Singh and 10.Prithipal Singh	Mexico City Olympics 1968	Bronze medal
11.Harmik Singh	Munich Olympics 1972	Bronze medal
12. Ajit Pal Singh	Montreal Olympics 1976	7th Position
13.Vasudevan Baskaran	Moscow Olympics 1980	Gold medal
14.Zafar Iqbal	Los Angeles Olympics 1984	5th Position
15.Sommayya Maneypande	Seoul Olympics 1988	6th Position
16. Pargat Singh	Barcelona Olympics 1992	7th Position
16.Pargat Singh	Atlanta Olympics 1996	8th Position
17.Ramandeep Singh	Sydney Olympics 2000	7th Position
18.Dilip Tirkey	Athens Olympics 2004	7th Position
19.Bharat Chetri	London Olympics 2012	12th Position
20.P. R. Sreejesh	Rio Olympics 2016	8th position
21.Manpreet Singh	Tokyo Olympics 2020	Bronze medal

List of Indian Women's Hockey Team Captains in Olympics

Captain Name	Olympics	Rank in Olympic
1.Rupa Kumari Saini	Moscow Olympics 1980	4th position
2. Sushila Chanu	Rio Olympics 2016	12th position
3. Rani Rampal	Tokyo Olympics 2020	4th position

The period from Amsterdam Olympics 1928 to Melbourne Olympics 1956 was a very proud time for the Indian hockey team. During this, the Indian team won 6 consecutive gold medals. Jaipal Singh Munda was the first captain of the Indian hockey team in an Olympic event.

Major Dhyan Chand represented the Indian men's hockey team at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Won gold medal in Olympics.

Indian men's hockey team in Rio Olympics 2016 was captained by P.R. Sreejesh did it. Took 8th place in this Olympics.

Till now Indian Hockey team has won 8 Gold, 1 Silver and 3 Bronze medals in Olympic events.

Indian Hockey Team Medals in Olympics

Gold in Amsterdam in 1928
Gold in los angeles in 1932
Gold in Berlin in 1936
Gold in London in 1948
Gold in 1952 in Helsinki
Gold in 1956 Melbourne
Australia silver in Rome in 1960
Gold in Tokyo in 1964
Bronze in Mexico City in 1968
Bronze in Munich in 1972
Gold in Moscow in 1980
Bronze in Tokyo Olympics 2020

India won the gold medal at the 1980 Moscow Olympics. The team was then led by Vasudevan Bhaskaran. Since then the Indian team could not even finish fourth in the Olympic event.

Expectations were high at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, however, as the Indian men's hockey team lost 2-5 to Belgium in the men's hockey semi-finals and won the bronze medal.

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