Haripal Kaushik

Haripal Kaushik, VrC (2 February 1934 – 25 January 2018) was an Indian field hockey player, military officer and television commentator.

Field hockey He won gold medals in the 1956 Summer Olympics and the 1964 Summer Olympics. He was vice captain of the team that won the gold medal in the 1966 Asian Games, and was later a field hockey administrator and television commentator. He received the Arjuna Award for excellence in athletic competition in 1998.

Kaushik was awarded the Vir Chakra for "exemplary courage and self-disregard" on the battlefield.

Haripal Stadium at the Indian Army's Mechanised Infantry Regimental Centre in Ahmednagar is named in his honor.

Vir Chakra The citation for the Vir Chakra awarded to him reads:

Family and later years He was married to Prem Bala Kaushik, who died before him in 1983. They had one daughter, Veronica. Kaushik took early retirement from his military service and worked for a sugar mill in Phagwara as a general manager. He also created Goal Getter which was his own brand of hockey sticks. He died at his home in the Jalandhar cantonment, after suffering from dementia for several years.