National Sports Day

1. National Sports Day
29th August 2016

2. National Sports Day in India is celebrated on
August 29. This day marks the birthday of Dhyan
Chand, the hockey player who won gold medals for
India in the years 1928,1932 and 1936. This day is
celebrated by organizing friendly matches between
different Indian hockey teams at the Dhyan Chand
National Stadium in New Delhi, which was constructed
in the respect and honor of Dhyan Chand.

3. Do You Know About
Major Dhyan Chand
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4. Hockey legend

5. Biography

6. Past life of dhyan chand
• Dhyan chand was born in allahabad.
• His father Sameshwar Dutt Singh was in army as Subedar
and played the game of Hockey.
• he had 2 brothers named Mool Singh and Roop Singh.
• Dhyan could not resume his studies after 6thstandard as his
family used to move from one place to another.
• Dhyan was not much interested into sports initially.
• He started playing Hockey with his friends who used to
themselves make Hockey sticks from tree branches and
balls from ragged clothes.

7. Early domestic career
• In the year 1922. Dhyan joined the
Punjab Regiment as a Sepoy. He aged
just 16 years when he joined army.
• Major Bhole Tiwari of Brahmin Regiment
taught him the basics of the game.
• Pankaj Gupta was the first Coach of
Dhyan Singh.
• He was promoted to Lieutenant rank in
1937.
• He retired from Indian army in 1956 at
the age of 51. He was with the rank of
‘Major’ at the time of retirement.

8. Early career
• Beginning of Legendry Days:
Dhyan Chand was named the “Hockey Wizard”. After the
final match of the Punjab Infantry Tournament in Jhelum . He
scored 3 goals in the last 4 minutes in that match where in
his team was losing by 2 goals, and got his team the victory
in the match.
• In the first Inter-Provincial (National) Hockey tournament
that was organized in the year 1925 , Dhyan Chand
delivered brilliant performance .
• On the basis of his performance he was selected for the
International Hockey team of India.

9. INTERNATIONAL CAREER:
• In the year 1926 Dhyan Chand was selected for
the Indian Hockey team going to visit New
Zealand at a tour.
• During the tour, the Indian team scored 20 goals
in a match played at Dannkerke, and Dhyan
Chand alone had scored 10 of them. India
played 21 matches on the tour, out of which it
won 18, lost 1 and drew 2 matches.

10. . The team scored a total number of 192 goals and Dhyan Chand
alone had scored over 100 of them.
After his return to India, he was promoted to the post of Lance
Nayak in the Army.
 In the Amsterdam Olympic Games 1928, and he scored 2 out of
the 3 goals in the final match against Netherlands, getting
India the Gold Medal by 3-0 win.
 In the Los Angeles Olympics 1932, the Indian team led by Lal
Shah Bukhari again won the Gold Medal. By defeated the USA
Hockey team by 23-1, which remained a world record.
Olympic Games:

11.  In the Berlin Olympics 1932, Indian had successfully treaded
their path to the finals crushing Hungary by 4-0, USA by 7-0
and Japan 9-0 without conceding a single goal in the
tournament.
 In the Final match, the Indian squad could score only 1 goal
till the interval. Dhyan Chand removed his shoes in the
interval and played the match barefooted onwards. The
Indian team won the match and the Gold medal by 8-1.
 Adolf Hitler, offered Dhyan Chand a higher post in the
German Army than the one he was holding in the Indian
Army.but he politely denied the offer.
 He kept playing till the age of 42 years, and retired from the
game in the year 1948.
 After watching him play Hockey, Bradman commented “He
scores goals like runs in Cricket.”
Olympic Games:

12. • The last days of Dhyan Chand were not very happy, as he
was short of money and was badly ignored by the nation.
He developed liver cancer, and was sent to a general
ward at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS),
New Delhi. He died on the 3rd of December 1979.
Last days:

13. Awards &Achievements:
• For his extra-ordinary services to the nation, the
Government of India celebrates Dhyan Chand’s
birthday (29th of August) as National Sports Day.
• The Indian Postal Service issued a postage stamp in
his memory, and the Dhyan Chand National Stadium
at New Delhi has been named after him
• He was honored by the Padma Bhushan award by
the Government of India in the year 1956.

15. Deptt. Of Sports