KBC 14: In which edition of the Olympic Games did the Indian men’s field hockey team have two joint captains?

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KBC 14: In which edition of the Olympic Games did the Indian men’s field hockey team have two joint captains?

Options:

1980 Moscow

1952 Helsinki

1972 Munich

1968 Mexico City

Answer: 1968 Mexico City

Gurbux Singh and Prithipal Singh, India’s joint captains at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, guided their team to a bronze medal. The only guy to represent India in field hockey at two Olympics was Pargat Singh.

Full list of Indian hockey captains at Olympics

Men
CaptainYearVenueResult
Jaipal Singh Munda1928AmsterdamGold
Syed Lal Shah Bokhari1932Los AngelesGold
Dhyan Chand1936BerlinGold
Kishan Lal1948LondonGold
KD Singh ‘Babu’1952HelsinkiGold
Balbir Singh Sr.1956MelbourneGold
Leslie Claudius1960RomeSilver
Charanjit Singh1964TokyoGold
Gurbux Singh / Prithipal Singh1968Mexico CityBronze
Harmik Singh1972MunichBronze
Ajit Pal Singh1976Monteral7th
Vasudevan Baskaran1980MoscowGold
Zafar Iqbal1984Los Angeles5th
MM Somaya1988Seoul6th
Pargat Singh1992Barcelona7th
Pargat Singh1996Atalanta8th
Ramandeep Singh Grewal2000Sydney7th
Dilip Tirkey2004Athens7th
Bharat Chettri2012London12th
PR Sreejsh2016Rio8th
Manpreet Singh2020TokyoBronze
Women
NameYearVenueResult
Rupa Saini1980Moscow4th
Sushila Chanu2016Rio12th
Rani Rampal2020Tokyo4th

 

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