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2022

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Former Indian player Charanjit Singh, who has passed away, won an Olympic gold in which game in 1964?
A
Football
B
Tennis
C
Hockey
D
Athletics
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Charanjit Singh (3 February 1931 – 27 January 2022) was an Indian field hockey player who was the captain of the team that won the gold medal at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. He was also a member of the team that won the silver medal at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome and the 1962 Asian Games in Jakarta.

Detailed explanation-2: -Pargat Singh is the only man to lead India in field hockey at two Olympics. He was captain for Barcelona 1992 and Atlanta 1996. Tamil Nadu’s Vasudevan Baskaran, the Indian skipper at Moscow 1980, remains the last Olympics gold-medal winning captain of an Indian hockey team.

Detailed explanation-3: -Captain of India’s 1964 Tokyo Olympics gold medal-winning hockey team, Charanjit Singh, died on Thursday at his home in Una, Himachal Pradesh after suffering a cardiac arrest that followed prolonged age-related illnesses.

Detailed explanation-4: -Indian hockey team won the Gold medals in six consecutive Summer Olympics starting in 1928, 32, 36, 48, 52 and 46 and then two times later in 1964 and 1980. Indian Hockey Team under the leadership of Manpreet Singh has also qualified for the Tokyo Olympics.

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