Bandu Patil (January 1, 1936 – July 23, 1988) was an Indian

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player. Bandu Patil represented the Indian Hockey team, which won Gold medal during 1964 Olympics. He is from Belgaum. The Belgaum Cantonment had planned to rename the Khanapur road from Sanchayni Circle to Suryakant Park (Gogte circle) as Bandu Patil (He was a part of the gold medal-winning Indian hockey team in the 1960s) road, but it was later found that, the same road was named after Maj.Cariappa in the military records."Olympians from Belgaum"
allaboutbelgaum.com. He played as inside left and for Services in the national championships. Patil died from cardiac arrest.

Medals

*1964 Tokyo Olympics- Gold *1962 Asian Games – Silver

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* * 1936 births 1988 deaths People from Belgaum Field hockey players from Karnataka Olympic field hockey players of India Olympic gold medalists for India Field hockey players at the 1964 Summer Olympics Indian male field hockey players Olympic medalists in field hockey Marathi sportspeople Asian Games medalists in field hockey Field hockey players at the 1962 Asian Games Medalists at the 1964 Summer Olympics Asian Games silver medalists for India Medalists at the 1962 Asian Games {{India-Olympic-medalist-stub