Big shock to Indian sports world, Olympic medalist Balbir Singh dies

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New Delhi: Former hockey player Balbir Singh Khullar has died. Hockey India gave this data on Sunday. Balbir was 77 years of age and was a piece of the Indian group that won the bronze decoration in the Olympics in 1968. Hockey India tweeted that we are disheartened by the passing of our previous hockey player and Balbir Singh Kullar (Olympic medalist colleague). He said that we express our sympathies to his family. Our petitions with Hockey India are with Balbir Singh Khullar and his companions right now misery.

Conceived in Sansarpur in the Jalandhar region of Punjab, Balbir made his Indian presentation in 1963 in Leon, France. He increased notoriety for being an inside forward in the Indian group and visited nations, for example, Belgium, England, the Netherlands, and West Germany. Balbir was an individual from the Indian group that won gold at the Bangkok Asian Games in 1966 and bronze at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico.

Resigned as a DIG,

Balbir Singh Kullar joined the Punjab Armed Police in 1962 and the following year in 1963 he turned into the ASI of the Punjab Police. From 1968 to 1975, Balbir was a piece of the All India Police group and for quite a while he likewise drove the group. He became Deputy Superintendent of Police in 1981. He became Indian Police Officer in 1987 and resigned as DIG in 2001.

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