1932 Olympics in Los Angeles, the legendary Indian hockey team led by Major Dhyan Chand cruised to a second consecutive title with a record 24-1 win over the United States.
The 1932 Games was the first one in which Dhyan Chand captained the Indian team. Only three teams took part and India were runaway victors with a 11-1 win over Japan and the record win over USA thus scoring a whopping 35 goals and conceding just two in two matches. The 23-goal margin in India’s match against the USA remains the highest ever margin of victory in a hockey match at the Olympics. Dhyan Chand scored eight goals and Roop Singh scored 10 in that game.
It was the second of six consecutive gold medals that the Indian hockey team won. They won a total of eight gold medals before going on a run of 41 years without any medal at all at the Olympics after Moscow 1980. This run ended at the recently concluded Tokyo Olympics, where the men’s team won bronze.
The hockey team remained the only representatives of India to win an Olympic gold until 2008, when Bindra managed a 10.8 on his last shot in the men’s 10m air rifle final to win gold. He thus became the first individual gold medallist from India and remained the only athlete in that category until Neeraj Chopra dominated the men’s javelin throw final at the 2020 Olympics and won gold.
“He won gold and showed India that people like us can win gold. He is the one who changed our mindset and made us believe that it is possible,” Neeraj told India Today about the effect Bindra’s medal has on the Indian sporting fraternity. —
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