Balbir Singh Jr

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A brief biography

Tridib Baparnash, April 14, 2021: The Times of India

Balbir Singh Junior was a member of the silver medal-winning 1958 Asian Games Indian hockey team.

He was also an avid golfer, and excelled in other sports too like tennis and squash.

Born on May 2, 1932, at Sansarpur in Jalandhar, which is known as the nursery of hockey players, Balbir took to hockey when he was six. He studied at Lyallpur Khalsa College in Jalandhar and was first selected to play for the Indian hockey team in 1951.

Balbir had also captained the Panjab University team in the Inter-University hockey tournaments apart from playing in the Punjab team before joining the Indian Railways team in the 1950s. He was instrumental in guiding Indian Railways to a hattrick of national titles in 1957, 1958 and 1959. In the 1958 Asian Games in Tokyo, Balbir was picked in the team as a back-up to Balbir Singh Senior as a centre-forward but played as an inside-left in the tournament.

In 1962, he joined the Army as an emergency commissioned officer and played for the Services hockey team. Singh retired as a major in 1984 and later settled in Chandigarh. Post retirement, he took keen interest in playing golf.

Punjab governor VP Singh Badnore, who is also administrator, Union Territory of Chandigarh, expressed his condolence.

Hockey India president Gyanendro Ningombam said, “On behalf of Hockey India, I express my deepest condolences to Balbir Singh Junior's family. His contribution to Indian hockey will always be remembered and the hockey fraternity mourns his demise.”