Gurdev Singh Kular (born 12 August 1933) is a former

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

n field hockey player, originally from

Sansarpur Sansarpur is a village in Jalandhar district in the Indian state of Punjab. Demographics India census, Sansarpur had a population of 4061. Males constitute 51% of the population and females 49%. Sansarpur has an average literacy rate of 75%, h ...

. He was part of the Indian field hockey team at the

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, which won the gold medal. He was also a member of the field hockey team for the 1958 Tokyo and 1962 Jakarta Asian Games, the latter of which he was captain for. He was also the captain of the gold-medallist Punjab team in the national hockey championship in Bhopal same year. In 1964, he led a team tour to Afghanistan as captain.Gurdev Singh, Sports-Reference / Olympic Sports
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1933 births Living people Olympic field hockey players for India Olympic gold medalists for India Field hockey players at the 1956 Summer Olympics Indian male field hockey players Field hockey players from Jalandhar Indian Sikhs Olympic medalists in field hockey Asian Games medalists in field hockey Field hockey players at the 1958 Asian Games Field hockey players at the 1962 Asian Games Medalists at the 1956 Summer Olympics Asian Games silver medalists for India Medalists at the 1958 Asian Games Medalists at the 1962 Asian Games {{India-Olympic-medalist-stub