Khadangbam Kothajit Singh

Kothajit Singh
Personal information
Full name Khadangbam Kothajit Singh
Born (1992-08-17) 17 August 1992
Imphal East, India
Height 170 cm (5 ft 7 in)[1]
Playing position Defender / Midfielder
National team
Years Team Caps Goals
2012– India 207 (4)
Medal record
Men's field hockey
Asian Games
2014 Incheon Team
Asia Cup
2013 Ipoh
Champions Trophy
2016 London
Asian Champions Trophy
2016 Kuantan
2018 Muscat
2012 Doha
World League
2014–15 Raipur Team
2016–17 Bhubaneswar Team
Commonwealth Games
2014 Glasgow Team
In this Meitei name, the family name is Khadangbam and the given name is Kothajit. "Singh" is a name suffix.

Khadangbam Kothajit Singh (born 17 August 1992) is an India field hockey player who plays as a defender or midfielder for the Indian national team.

He represented India in Men's Hockey during the 2012 London Olympics. He is the third hockey Olympian - after Pangambam Nilakomol Singh and Ksh. Thoiba - from the state of Manipur, known for producing a disproportionate number of international-standard sportspersons.[2] He was a member of the silver-medal winning Indian team at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland.

He was a member of India's gold-medal winning hockey team at the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea. He was India's only goal-scorer in regular time, which ended 1-1 against silver medalist Pakistan. India won 4-2 in a penalty shootout.

References

  1. ^ "KHADANGBAM Kothajit". worldcup2018.hockey. International Hockey Federation. Retrieved 7 February 2019.
  2. ^ "Hueiyen Lanpao - Official Website Manipur Daily".
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.