Surjit Singh
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Surjit Singh was a full back and captain of India
India
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 team in 1979 in the Champions Trophy. He also played for India in the Munich Olympics in 1972, the 1974 Asian Games
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 in Teheran, the 1975 Hockey World Cup
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 champion team in Kuala Lumpur
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, the 1976 Montreal Olympics, the Asian Games
Asian Games
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 in Bangkok
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 in 1978, and the 1982 World Cup held at Bombay.

Surjit Singh died as the result of a car accident in 1984.

He was posthumously awarded the Arjuna Award
Arjuna award
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in 1998.
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