Former Hockey player and Captain of India’s 1964 Tokyo Olympics gold medal-winning hockey team, Charanjit Singh, died on 27th January 2022

Charanjit Singh, winning captain of hockey team who won the Olympic gold medal in 1964, died on 27^th January 2022 at his home in Himachal Pradesh. The reason behind his death was cardiac attack. He died at the age of 90 years; he was also suffering from old-age related problem. He had two sons and one daughter in his family. Hockey India twitted that on behalf of Hockey India, we mourn the loss of a great figure of Indian Hockey, Shri Charanjit Singh. May his soul Rest in Peace🙏. His younger son V P Singh announced his death by telling the public that “Dad was paralysed after suffering a stroke five years back. He used to walk with a stick but since the last couple of months, his health deteriorated and this morning he left us.’’