A report in a newspaper after India’s triumph in the Amsterdam Olympics 1928. Dhyan ‘Chand’ Singh, fondly known as Dhyan Chand, was an Indian hockey player, who brought India laurels with ...

The first medal, a gold, was won at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics. It was during this tour that Dhyan Chand established himself as the premier star of Indian hockey. For Chand, an enlisted sepoy in ...

He scored more than 400 goals in his career which spanned over 22 years. During the 1936 Berlin Olympic final, Dhyan Chand top-scored with three goals and the Indians won easily, defeating Germany ...

His exceptional skills garnered swift recognition, propelling Dhyan Chand to join the Indian hockey contingent for the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics. As the sport made its Olympic debut, the newly ...

‘Chand’ means moon in Hindi. 2. Dhyan Chand was the leading goal-scorer at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics with 14 goals. A news report about India’s victory said “This is not a game of ...

Dhyan Chand is also a three-time-Olympic gold medal winner. He won golds as part of the Indian hockey team at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics, 1932 Los Angeles Olympics and 1936 Berlin Olympics.

For Dhyan Chand, what the score-line of India matches in that Olympics won't reveal is the tremendous pressure that he faced as media reports suggested that the defending champions were no longer ...

Berlin’s new Olympic push can’t escape the shadow of Hitler’s 1936 spectacle, where athletes wrote resistance stories and ...

As destiny would have it, the Berlin Games was to be Dhyan Chand’s third and last Olympics at the age of 31, for he had decided to retire. Undoubtedly at the peak of his prowess, he was handed ...

Several social media users called out the Olympic shooter ... from now on,” wrote a social media user on X. Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award was renamed from Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award.

In the city to visit his daughter & grandson, hockey legend Dhyan Chand’s son Ashok Kumar, himself a former captain, speaks about India’s Olympic prospects Hockey wizard Dhyan ...