indian hockey olympic gold
Balbir Singh scored goals in olympic final.
Field hockey at the 1948 Summer Olympics
1948 REAL Hockey Team Who Won First Olympics Gold For India |
India won the 1948 Summer Olympics gold medal by scoring 4-0 . Balbir Singh scored goals in olympic final.
This was first Indian Hockey gold medal as independent nation .
Final: India beat Britain 4-0 (Balbir Singh 2; Patrick Jansen 1; Tarlochan Singh 1).
The contingent also included the likes of Leslie Claudius who went on to play four Olympics and Balbir Singh (Punjab) who became a legend in his own right.
In fact, Balbir starred in India’s 8-1 win against Argentina by scoring six goals. However, he was dropped for the next two games in which his absence manifested itself when India struggled to beat Spain 2-0 (quarterfinals) and Holland 2-1 (semifinals).