Gurmail Singh (born 10 December 1959) is a former

India India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area; the List of countries by population (United Nations), most populous country since ...

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 The 1980 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad () and officially branded as Moscow 1980 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 19 July to 3 August 1980 in Moscow, Soviet Union, in present-day Russ ...

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. He is currently an officer in the Punjab Police. He is an

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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 {{India-fieldhockey-bio-stub