Rupa Kumari Saini (born 2 September 1954) is an Indian

field hockey Field hockey is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with ten outfield players and a goalkeeper. Teams must drive a round hockey ball by hitting it with a hockey stick towards the rival team's shooting ci ...

player. She competed in the

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at the

1980 Summer Olympics The 1980 Summer Olympics (russian: Летние Олимпийские игры 1980, Letniye Olimpiyskiye igry 1980), officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad (russian: Игры XXII Олимпиады, Igry XXII Olimpiady) and commo ...

. She is a member of the Saini Sisters hockey family.''"At one time, the Saini sisters dominated women's hockey in India and this can be gauged from the fact that three of them— Rupa, Krishna and Prema- turned out for the country in a Test series against Japan in 1970"'
Olympians relive the peaks and the troughs, Ravi Dhaliwal, Sunday, 25 November 2001 , The Tribune

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* 1954 births Living people People from Faridkot, Punjab Field hockey players from Punjab, India Indian female field hockey players Olympic field hockey players of India Field hockey players at the 1980 Summer Olympics Place of birth missing (living people) {{India-fieldhockey-bio-stub