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Shamsher Singh (Field Hockey)

movie Field Hockey Player, Punjab National Bank officer cake 29 July 1997 (Tuesday) (Attari, Amritsar, Punjab, India)
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Height

5' 10" (178 cm)

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Age

27

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Nation

Indian

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Basic Information

Date of Birth: 29 July 1997 (Tuesday)
Birthplace: Attari, Amritsar, Punjab, India
Zodiac Sign: Leo
Nationality: Indian
Hometown: Amritsar, Punjab

Family & Relationships

Marital Status: Unmarried

Education

Schools: Sri Guru Harkrishan Public School, Attari, Punjab Government Senior Secondary Smart School, Attari, Punjab
Colleges: Lovely Professional University, Punjab DAV College, Jalandhar, Punjab
Education: MBA

Lifestyle

Religion: Sikhism

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Some Lesser Known Facts About Shamsher Singh

  • While studying in class 3, he joined a local academy to learn to play harmonium but left it after three months.
  • He got interested in hockey when he was about 9 years of age after watching older boys playing hockey.
  • Initially, he wanted to play hockey only until the national level to get a government job.
  • In an interview, he talked about using a broken hockey stick for the first two years after starting to play hockey due to the lack of proper equipment in his hometown, and said,

    Whenever it used to have a crack, my father would fix it with nails and tape it. For two years, I played with that broken stick.”

  • In 2021, the Punjab Government renamed Government Senior Secondary School, Attari in Amritsar, Punjab, to Olympian Shamsher Singh Government Senior Secondary School for his contribution to the Summer Olympics, held in Tokyo in 2021.

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