Manpreet Singh (field hockey) Manpreet Singh (field hockey) Manpreet Singh, full name Manpreet Singh Pawar (born 26 June 1992) is an Indian field hockey player and current captain of India men's national field hockey team since May 2017. He plays as a halfback. He first played for India in 2011 at the age of 19. He represented India at the 2012 Summer Olympics and was named Asia's Junior Player of the Year in 2014. He was named in the Indian squad for the 2016 Summer Olympics. Manpreet Singh was born in a farming family in Mithapur village on outskirts of Jalandhar city of Punjab
Sport in India Games in 1951 and 1982 at New Delhi. India is the 4th most successful country winning 602 medals including 139 gold. India has won the gold medal in Kabbadi ever since its inception except in 2018. The National Games of India is a sporting event held in India. It comprises various disciplines in which sportsmen from the different states of India participate against each other. The country's first few Olympic Games, now christened as National Games. Shooting is an important Olympic sport in India. Of India's 26 Olympic medals, 4 have come from Shooting including a Gold by Abhinav Bindra