Pargat Singh: Difference between revisions

{{Short description|Indian hckey player and politician (born 1965)}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name               = Pargat Singh

| image               = During oath taking ceremony.jpg

| caption             = Singh taking oath as cabinet minister

| birth_date         = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1965|03|05}}

| birth_place         = Mithapur, [[Jalandhar, Punjab]], India

| office1             = [[Punjab Legislative Assembly|Member of the Legislative Assembly, Punjab]]

| constituency1       = [[Jalandhar Cantt Assembly Constituency|Jalandhar Cantt]]

| term_start1         = 2012

| term_end1           =  

| successor1         =  

| predecessor1       = [[Jagbir Singh Brar]]

| party               = [[Indian National Congress]]<br />(2017–present)

| otherparty         = {{plainlist|Awaaz-e-Punjab (2016)

* [[Shiromani Akali Dal]] (–2016)}}

| module             = {{Infobox field hockey player

| embed         = yes

| height         = {{convert|180|cm|ftin|abbr=on}}

| position       = [[Field hockey#Positions|Defender]]

| years1         =  

| clubs1         = Punjab Police

| years2         =  

| clubs2         = Rail Coach Factory

| years3         =  

| clubs3         = Indian Railways

| nationalyears1 =  

| nationalteam1 = [[India men's national field hockey team|India]]

| nationalcaps1 =  

| nationalgoals1 =  

| show-medals   = yes

|medaltemplates =  

{{MedalSport|Men's [[Field hockey at the Summer Olympics|field hockey]]}}

{{MedalCompetition | [[Asian Games]] }}

{{MedalBronze | [[1986 Asian Games|1986 Seoul]] | [[Field hockey at the 1986 Asian Games|Team]] }}

{{MedalSilver|[[Field hockey at the 1990 Asian Games|1990 Beijing]]|Team}}

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'''Pargat Singh''' (born 5 March 1965) is a hockey player turned politician in India and belongs to the [[Indian National Congress]] in [[Punjab]]. He is a former Indian [[field hockey|hockey]] player and his playing position was of full back. He was considered one of the world's best defenders erstwhile. He captained [[India men's national field hockey team|Indian men's hockey team]] at [[1992 Summer Olympics|1992 Barcelona Olympics]] and [[1996 Summer Olympics|1996 Atlanta Olympics]]. He was working as an SP with [[Punjab Police (India)|Punjab police]] before taking a plunge into politics.

[[India men's national field hockey team|India]] vs [[Germany men's national field hockey team|Germany]]: At one point of time score board was ticking 1–5. Then this young guy, Pargat Singh came forward and performed against everyone's hope and scored ''4 goals in the last 6 minutes''. The result was a draw but it made Pargat Singh a real hero in the hearts of every Indian.<ref>{{cite web |title=Pargat Singh – ESPNSTAR.com |url=http://www.espnstar.com/opinion/full-bio/item402477/}}</ref>

He didn't stop there with his previous year's spectacular performance against Germany and repeated the same action against [[Netherlands men's national field hockey team|Holland]] to give India a 3–2 victory.

He is vice-president of the Surjit Singh Memorial Hockey Tournament Society of [[Jalandhar]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Sports Personalities |url=http://jalandhar.nic.in/html/sports_personalities.htm |access-date=15 October 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141023020304/http://jalandhar.nic.in/html/sports_personalities.htm |archive-date=23 October 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref>