Former India Hockey Coach Jagbir Singh Hospitalised After Suffering A Heart Attack

Former India ahead and hockey coach Jagbir Singh suffered an enormous coronary heart assault and was admitted to a hospital at Rourkela, Odisha on Friday. Two-time Olympian Jagbir is in Rourkela for the Hockey India League with Team Gonasika. Jagbir, who was employed with Air India earlier than retiring just a few years again, was rushed to the hospital instantly and his situation is reported to be steady. The 59-year-old Jagbir Singh, who was born in a Sikh household in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, represented India within the 1988 Olympics in Seoul after which the 1992 Games in Barcelona. He performed for India between 1985 and 1996, successful a bronze medal within the 1986 Asian Games in Seoul and a silver within the 1990 version in Beijing. In all, he earned 175 worldwide caps.

A prime ahead of his time, Jagbir coached the Indian males’s staff within the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens and likewise labored as a famend commentator for the reason that Nineteen Nineties.

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