This is a list of all field hockey players who have captained Indian national men's and women's field hockey team at the international level in Olympics. The list includes all Indian captains since the period of 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam.
Men's
Name Year Rank Venue Birth State Jaipal Singh Munda 1928 Gold medal Amsterdam Olympics 3 January 1903 Takra Pahantoli, Ranchi, Bengal Presidency (now in Jharkhand) Lal Shah Bokhari 1932 Gold medal Los Angeles Olympics 22 July 1909 Faisalabad, Punjab Province (now in Pakistan) Dhyan Chand 1936 Gold medal Berlin Olympics 29 August 1905 Allahabad, United Provinces (now Uttar Pradesh) Kishan Lal 1948 Gold medal London Olympics 2 February 1917 Mhow, Central Provinces and Berar (now Madhya Pradesh) K. D. Singh 1952 Gold medal Helsinki Olympics 2 February 1922 Barabanki, United Provinces (now Uttar Pradesh) Balbir Singh Sr. 1956 Gold medal Melbourne Olympics 31 December 1923 Haripur Khalsa, Punjab Province (now Punjab) Leslie Claudius 1960 Silver medal Rome Olympics 25 May 1927 Bilaspur, Central Provinces and Berar (now Chhattisgarh) Charanjit Singh 1964 Gold medal Tokyo Olympics 3 February 1931 Mairi, Punjab Province (now Himachal Pradesh) Gurbux Singh and Prithipal Singh 1968 Bronze medal Mexico City Olympics 11 February 193628 January 1932 Peshawar, North-West Frontier Province (now in Pakistan)Nankana Sahib, Punjab Province (now in Pakistan) Harmik Singh 1972 Bronze medal Munich Olympics 10 June 1947 Gujranwala, Punjab Province (now in Pakistan) Ajit Pal Singh 1976 7th Position Montreal Olympics 1 April 1947 Sansarpur, Punjab Province (now Punjab) Vasudevan Baskaran 1980 Gold medal Moscow Olympics 17 August 1950 Madras, Madras State (now Tamil Nadu) Zafar Iqbal 1984 5th Position Los Angeles Olympics 12 June 1956 Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh M. M. Somaya 1988 6th Position Seoul Olympics 8 May 1959 Coorg, Karnataka Pargat Singh 1992 7th Position Barcelona Olympics 5 March 1965 Mithapur, Jalandhar, Punjab Pargat Singh 1996 8th Position Atlanta Olympics 5 March 1965 Mithapur, Jalandhar, Punjab Ramandeep Singh 2000 7th Position Sydney Olympics 8 August 1971 Chandigarh Dilip Tirkey 2004 7th Position Athens Olympics 25 November 1977 Saunamara, Sundergarh, Orissa (now Odisha) Bharat Chetri 2012 12th Position London Olympics 15 December 1981 Kalimpong, West Bengal P. R. Sreejesh 2016 8th position Rio Olympics 8 May 1988 Kochi, Kerala Manpreet Singh 2020 Bronze medal Tokyo Olympics 26 June 1992 Mithapur, Jalandhar, Punjab Harmanpreet Singh 2024 Bronze medal Paris Olympics 6 January 1996 Timmowal, Amritsar, Punjab
Women's
Name Year Rank Venue Birth State Rupa Kumari Saini 1980 4th position Moscow Olympics 2 September 1954 Faridkot, Punjab Sushila Chanu Pukhrambam 2016 12th position Rio Olympics 25 February 1992 Imphal, Manipur Rani Rampal 2020 4th position Tokyo Olympics 4 December 1994 Shahabad Markanda, Haryana
References
External links Olympic Captains Of India