Gurmail Singh (born 10 December 1959) is a former
India
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field hockey
Field hockey (or simply referred to as hockey in some countries where ice hockey is not popular) is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with 11 players in total, made up of 10 field players and a goalk ...
player. He was part of the Indian hockey team that won the gold medal in
1980 Summer Olympics
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at
Moscow
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. He is currently an officer in the
Punjab Police. He is an
Arjuna Award
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winner. He is married to
Rajbir Kaur, a former captain of women's Indian hockey team.
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Olympic gold medalists for India
Field hockey players at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Olympic field hockey players for India
Living people
Field hockey players from Punjab, India
Olympic medalists in field hockey
Year of birth missing (living people)
Indian male field hockey players
20th-century Indian sportsmen
Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Recipients of the Dhyan Chand Award
Field hockey players at the 1982 Asian Games
Asian Games silver medalists for India
Asian Games field hockey players for India
Medalists at the 1982 Asian Games
Asian Games silver medalists in field hockey
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