Lal_Bokhari
Lal Shah Bokhari
British Indian field hockey player
Lal Shah Bokhari (Urdu: لال شاہ بخاری;
13 January 1906 – 22 July 1959) was a British India field hockey player. He was captain of the 15-member British Indian field hockey team in the 1932 Summer Olympics.
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| Full name | Syed Lal Shah Bokhari | ||||||||||||||||
| Born |
(1906-01-13)13 January 1906[1] Lyallpur, Punjab Province, British India | ||||||||||||||||
| Died |
22 July 1959(1959-07-22) (aged 53) Baghdad, Iraq | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 8 in (173 cm) | ||||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Left-half | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||
| – | Government College, Lahore | ||||||||||||||||
| National team | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 1932 | British India | (0[2]) | |||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| Last updated on: 2 April 2024 | |||||||||||||||||
In 1932, he was the captain[3] of the British India_men's national field hockey team, which won the gold medal at the Los Angeles Olympics. There were total three teams in the tournament and every team played two matches. He played both the matches from his team.
The British Indian team, troubled by groupism (natives vs Anglo-Indians) that surfaced when Lal Shah Bokhari was named captain ahead of Broome Eric Pinniger, arrived in Los Angeles to a rousing greeting.[4]
He opted for Pakistan upon the country's independence from Britain and served as a diplomat for Pakistan -- his last posting being Pakistan's ambassador to Iraq.[citation needed]
- https://books.google.com/books/about/Asia_Who_s_Who.doc?id=YkVEAAAAIAAJ The Asia Who's Who, 1957, p. 50
- Lal Shah Bokhari at Olympedia
- Lal Bokhari's profile at databaseOlympics.com
- Lal Bokhari's profile at Sports Reference.com
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| Preceded by | Flagbearer for India Los Angeles 1932 |
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