Surinder Singh Sodhi (field hockey)
# Surinder Singh Sodhi (field hockey)

Surinder Singh Sodhi is a former field hockey player from India. He is famous for playing a major role in getting India the gold medal in 1980 Olympic games after a gap of 16 years. He played in the center forward position.

In previous games Surinder Singh Sodhi scored 5 goals against Tanzania and 4 goals against Cuba.

The 15 goals scored by him in the 1980 Moscow Olympics is the second highest goals at the games and highest tally by an Indian in an Olympic hockey competition. It equalised the earlier record of 15 goals set by the great Udham Singh in the 1956 Melbourne Olympics.

In 2022, he ran for the Jalandhar Cantonment Assembly constituency seat as the Aam Aadmi Party's candidate, losing to Pargat Singh.

