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Is Hockey The National Game Of India?

The national sport of India is not hockey. The Government Of India acknowledged that there are no records of hockey being India’s national game when an RTI query from a ten-year-old girl, Aishwarya Parashar was submitted to them in 2012. India does not have a national sport.

India has conquered the podium when it comes to the game of Hockey. Our nation has an excellent record with eight Olympic gold medals. Indian hockey’s golden period was from 1928-56 when the Indian hockey team won six successive Olympic gold medals. Team also won the 1975 World Cup besides two more medals (silver and a bronze). The Indian Hockey Federation gained global affiliation in 1927 and joined the International Hockey Federation (FIH).

Thus began the history of the Indian Hockey Federation as India entered the Olympics to begin its golden saga. The tour was a huge success with India winning 18 out of the 21 matches and the legendary Dhyan Chand was the cynosure of all the eyes scoring over 100 goals of the 192 Indians accounted for. The match began in Amsterdam in 1928 and India went on a winning spree in Los Angeles in 1932 and Berlin in 1936 and thus bagged a hat-trick of gold medals at the Olympics.

Post Indian Independence; the Indian team achieved another hat-trick of gold medals at the 1948 London Olympics, 1952 Helsinki Games, and the Melbourne Olympics.

During the Golden Era (1928 to 1956), India played 24 Olympic matches, won all 24, scored 178 goals (at an average of 7.43 goals per match), and conceded only 7 goals. The two other gold medals for India came in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics and the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

 

 

Rahul Rana
Rahul Rana
Saurabh is a marketing professional and loves to write around study, education and students. When he is free and doing nothing, you can either find him playing video games or surfing the net for the latest developments in the edu-tech.
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