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1960 Rome | Team |
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1962 Jakarta | Team |
Jaman Lal Sharma (1932–2007) was an Indian field hockey player. He won a silver medal at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome.
Sharma was born in Bannu, North-West Frontier Province, British India, in what is now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, in 1932. After retiring as a player, Sharma became a coach and was manager of the Indian hockey team at the Asian Games.
The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian award of Padma Shri in 1990. Sharma died on 26 August 2007, aged 75, following the complications developed after a fall in his bathroom. He had three daughters and a son, Deepak Sharma, who is a journalist.
In Lucknow, a state hockey tournament is being organized every year since 2008 in his memory.
References
- ^ "Ex-olympian Jaman Lal Sharma dies after brain haemorrhage". One India. 26 August 2007. Retrieved 25 September 2015.
- "Jaman Lal Sharma". Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 15 December 2012. Retrieved 12 May 2012.
- "Players happy as street named after Jaman Lal " Archived 4 January 2015 at the Wayback Machine. Times of India
- "Padma Awards" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 October 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
- "Jaman Lal Sharma state hockey from today". Indian Express.
- "Impressive win for Lucknow in Jaman Lal Sharma hockey". Indian Express.
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