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Arjuna Award, 1965
Asian Games Gold medal : 1962
AFC Asian Cup runners-up: 1964
Merdeka Tournament third-place: 1965, 1966
Arun Ghosh (born 7 July 1941) is a former Indian football player. He was part of the team that played in the 1960 Rome Olympics and finished runners-up in 1964 AFC Asian Cup. He was also a member of the squad that won gold medal at the 1962 Asian Games Football Championship in 1962. He also played in the final, where India defeated South Korea 2–1.
Asian Games Gold medal : 1951
Colombo Cup: 1952, 1955
Sheoo Mewalal also known as Sahu Mewalal was a former Indian footballer who plied his trade in Kolkata. He played as a striker and was known for his fitness, bicycle kicks, and goal-scoring abilities, especially using the rabona kick.
Playing for the Indian national team, Mewalal's first major tournament was the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. Following the Olympics the team played exhibition games, winning a game against the Dutch club AFC Ajax 5–1. Mewalal emerged as the top scorer in these games. Mewalal became part of the prominent Indian team during the "golden era" of Indian football, became one of the best teams in Asia.
In March 1951, at the inaugural 1951 Asian Games in New Delhi, he finished as the top scorer with four goals, with India winning the gold medal. Mewalal and his team defeated Iran 1–0 in the gold medal match to gain their first trophy. He was also a part of the team that competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. He toured several European countries in the late 1940s as part of the Indian team, and also participated in the team's tours of Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Myanmar, and Thailand during the 1950s. Mewalal was the first player after independence to score a hat-trick for India in a 4–0 victory over Burma in the 1952 Colombo Quadrangular Tournament.
Arjuna Award, 1962
Asian Games Gold medal: 1962
Merdeka Tournament runner-up: 1959
Tulsidas Balaram (born 30 November 1936), also known as Tulsidas Balaraman, is a former Indian football player who had represented the country in international competitions including the Olympic Games. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest football strikers, India has ever produced. Balaram He was one of the best players of the golden age of Indian football of the 1950s and 1960s. His playing position was as a center forward or as a left winger.
Balaram's performances against International teams are no less spectacular. He was one of the prime components of India's Gold winning team of 1962 Asian Games. He played every single game and scored goals against Thailand and Japan.
Padmashree, 1960
Late Arati Gupta (Saha) was an Indian long-distance swimmer, best known for becoming the first Asian woman to swim across the English Channel on 29 September 1959. In 1960, she became the first Indian sportswoman to be awarded the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian honour in India. Born in Kolkata, India, Arati had been introduced to swimming at age four. Her talent was spotted by Sachin Nag, and she was later inspired by the legendary Indian swimmer Mihir Sen to try to cross the English Channel.
Between 1945 and 1951 she won 22 state-level competitions in West Bengal. Her main events were 100-metre freestyle, 200 metres breaststroke and 300 metres breaststroke. She made an all-India record in 1950. At the 1951 West Bengal state meet, she clocked 1 minute 37.6 seconds in 100 metres breaststroke and broke Dolly Nazir's all-India record. At the same meet, she set the new state-level record in 100 metres freestyle, 200 metres freestyle, and 100 metres backstroke.
She represented India at the 1952 Summer Olympics. She was one of the four women participants and the youngest member of the Indian contingent at the age of 12. She used to participate in long-distance swimming competitions in the Ganges. Arati was inspired to cross the English Channel by Brojen Das. At the 1958 Butlin International Cross Channel Swimming Race, Brojen Das became the first among the men and earned the distinction of being the first person from the Indian subcontinent to cross the English Channel.
She was awarded Padma Shri in 1960. She was the first Indian woman sportsperson to receive the award. In 1999, the Department of Posts introduced a postage stamp of her which was Rs. 3/- denomination. In 1996, a bust of Arati Saha was erected near her residence. The 100-metre long lane in front of the bust was renamed after her. On the day that would have been her 80th birthday in 2020, she was featured as a Google Doodle.
Senior Women National Coaching Camp at MDCNS, New Delhi from 11 to 17 February 2013 in preparation of FIH World League Round 2 to be held at Delhi from 18-24 February 2013.
FIH World League Round 2 at New Delhi from 15 to 25 February 2013. (Winner)
Senior Women National Coaching Camp at MDCNS, New Delhi from 19 March to 10 April 2013 in preparation of FIH World League Round 3, 2013.
Europe International Tour at Rotterdam, Netherlands from 20 to 30 April 2013.
Senior Women National Coaching Camp at SAI, Patiala from 12 May to 04 June 2013 in preparation of FIH World League Semi-Finals to be held at Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Senior Women National Coaching Camp at SAI, Patiala from 11 October to 29 October 2013 in preparation of 3rd Women's Asian Champions Trophy 2013.
3 Women Asian Champions Trophy at Kakamighara, Gifu, Japan from 29 October to 10 November 2013. (Silver Medal)
Senior Women National Coaching Camp at SAI, Patiala from 19 November to 19 December 2013.
Test Matches Series at Auckland, New Zealand from 06 to 16 December 2012
FIH World League Round 2 at New Delhi, India from 18 to 24 February 2013 (India qualified for FIH Hockey World League Round 3 2013)
On 3 August 2012, Joydeep qualified for the Olympic Finals of Men's 50metre Rifle Prone event After six rounds, Joydeep was at joint fourth with eight other shooters. However, there was a shoot off between the nine tied shooters, in which Joydeep scored 51.6 and finished fourth in the shoot off, thereby qualifying for the final round as he finished 7th overall. In the final he scored 104.1 and with a total of 699.1 he finished fourth, behind the bronze medal winner, Rajmond Debevec of Slovenia.
Earlier in 2010 he had participated in ISSF World Cup, Sydney and won a silver medal with an Asian Record score of 599/600. He is still the only silver medalist in World Cup in Prone event from India. His National Record Scores of 594/600, 595, 598 & 599 from 2005 to 2010 was unique as Joydeep only bettered his own record. Apart from more than 70 National Medals, he also won Individual Australian Open Cup, Commonwealth Championships Gold and South Asian double Gold.
In Domestic competitions he held the Kumar Surendra Singh record of 597/600 in Prone. He participated in International tournaments till 2015, including 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games and 2014 Incheon Asian Games and ISSF World Championships in Granada, Spain.
In late 2015 he set up a shooting academy in Kolkata named Joydeep Karmakar Shooting Academy, at New Town, Kolkata. Later in 2018, he opened the other two branches of JKSA at Ballygunge and Bally, which is named as Shooting Sports Club Howrah. where he with other National & International shooters are training newcomers to the nuances of Rifle Shooting. Karmakar is the coach and mentor of 2018 Commonwealth Games and 2018 Summer Youth Olympics silver medallist Mehuli Ghosh.
On 3 August 2012, Joydeep qualified for the Olympic Finals of Men's 50metre Rifle Prone event After six rounds, Joydeep was at joint fourth with eight other shooters. However, there was a shoot off between the nine tied shooters, in which Joydeep scored 51.6 and finished fourth in the shoot off, thereby qualifying for the final round as he finished 7th overall. In the final he scored 104.1 and with a total of 699.1 he finished fourth, behind the bronze medal winner, Rajmond Debevec of Slovenia.
Earlier in 2010 he had participated in ISSF World Cup, Sydney and won a silver medal with an Asian Record score of 599/600. He is still the only silver medalist in World Cup in Prone event from India. His National Record Scores of 594/600, 595, 598 & 599 from 2005 to 2010 was unique as Joydeep only bettered his own record. Apart from more than 70 National Medals, he also won Individual Australian Open Cup, Commonwealth Championships Gold and South Asian double Gold.
In Domestic competitions he held the Kumar Surendra Singh record of 597/600 in Prone. He participated in International tournaments till 2015, including 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games and 2014 Incheon Asian Games and ISSF World Championships in Granada, Spain.
In late 2015 he set up a shooting academy in Kolkata named Joydeep Karmakar Shooting Academy, at New Town, Kolkata. Later in 2018, he opened the other two branches of JKSA at Ballygunge and Bally, which is named as Shooting Sports Club Howrah. where he with other National & International shooters are training newcomers to the nuances of Rifle Shooting. Karmakar is the coach and mentor of 2018 Commonwealth Games and 2018 Summer Youth Olympics silver medallist Mehuli Ghosh.
MS Dhoni...needs no introduction....he has worked as a Travelling Ticket Examiner (TTE) at Kharagpur Railway Station under South Eastern Railway in Midnapore (West), a district in West Bengal.
In 1971 he was awarded the Padma Shri.
Mention in the Guinness Book of World Records along with Udham Singh for having won the most number of Olympic medals in field hockey.
For the 2012 Olympics, the Bushey tube station was renamed after Claudius in the special "Olympic Legends Map".
He was one of six all-time hockey greats who were honored in this manner.
In 2012 he was awarded The Banga Bibhushan.
A road in Maidan was named after him as Leslie Claudius Sarani in 2015.
Won Gold Medal in the London Olympics, 1948
Won Gold Medal in the Helsinki Olympics, 1952
Won Gold Medal in the Melbourne Olympics, 1956
Won Silver Medal in the Rome Olympics, 1960
Won Silver Medal in the Tokyo Asian Games, 1958
Claudius was initially interested in football and as an accomplished player, he got a chance to play for the Bengal and Nagpur Railway. But, his talent in field hockey was spotted by Dickie Carr, who was a part of the Indian team that won the gold medal at the 1936 Olympics. Claudius was then inducted into the Bengal and Nagpur Railway hockey team that Carr was a part of. The team finished second in the Beighton Cup and Claudius quit football for hockey.
Claudius was a member of India's generation of hockey that won the Olympic gold in 1948, 1952 and 1956 and silver in 1960. He was the first hockey player to have competed in four Olympics and also the first to earn a hundred international caps. He captained the Indian team for the first team in 1959, with Dhyan Chand, often considered India's greatest hockey player ever as the coach, and led them to the second-place finish at the 1960 Olympics in Rome.
