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Krishan Bahadur Pathak

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Krishan Bahadur Pathak
Pathak in 2024
Personal information
Born (1997-04-24) 24 April 1997 (age 28)
Kapurthala, Punjab, India
Height 1.7 m (5 ft 7 in)[1]
Playing position Goalkeeper
Senior career
Years Team
Hockey Punjab
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board
Indian Oil Corporation
2024– Kalinga Lancers
National team
Years Team Caps Goals
2016 India U21 1 (0)
2018– India 155 (0)
Medal record
Men's field hockey
Representing  India
Champions Trophy
Silver medal – second place 2018 Breda
Asian Games
Gold medal – first place 2022 Hangzhou Team
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Jakarta Team
Asia Cup
Gold medal – first place 2025 Rajgir
Asian Champions Trophy
Gold medal – first place 2018 Muscat
Gold medal – first place 2023 Chennai
Gold medal – first place 2024 Hulunbuir
Bronze medal – third place 2021 Dhaka
Commonwealth Games
Silver medal – second place 2022 Birmingham Team
Junior World Cup
Gold medal – first place 2016 Lucknow

Krishan Bahadur Pathak (born 24 April 1997) is an Indian field hockey player who plays as a goalkeeper for the Indian national team.

Early life

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Pathak was born on 24 April 1997 in Kapurthala, Punjab. He is of Nepalese descent; his parents migrated from Lugdi village in Nepal to Punjab in 1990. His ancestral village is about six hours away from the capital Kathmandu.[2] Despite not being interested in the sport, Pathak had joined the Surjit Hockey Academy in Jalandhar when he was 12 at the insistence of his father.[3] Pathak's mother died when he was 12, while his father Tek Bahadur Pathak, a crane operator, died of a heart attack in 2016.[3][4][5]

Career

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Pathak was part of the Indian junior team that won the 2016 Men's Hockey Junior World Cup in Lucknow. He was then selected in the India A team for the 2017 Men's Australian Hockey League. He made his India senior team debut in January 2018 when the team participated in a four-team invitational tournament in New Zealand.[6] Pathak found a place in the squad for 2018 Sultan Azlan Shah Cup as India's first-choice goalkeeper P. R. Sreejesh was rested. He then played as a reserve goalkeeper in the 2018 Men's Hockey Champions Trophy where India won the silver medal and the 2018 Asian Games where India won bronze.[citation needed]

Pathak was the reserve goalkeeper at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo where India won the bronze medal.[7] Finally he won gold medal in 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou.[8]

Award

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Pathak received the Arjuna Award from the President of India on 9 January 2024.[9]

References

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  1. ^ "PATHAK Krishan". www.worldcup2018.hockey. International Hockey Federation. Retrieved 28 February 2019.
  2. ^ "Friends in deed aid Krishan in tragedy". The New Indian Express. 26 November 2016.
  3. ^ a b Raj, Pratyush (12 August 2018). "Sreejesh's understudy, Krishan worked at construction sites". The Times of India. Retrieved 28 October 2018.
  4. ^ Iyer, Ravi (26 November 2016). "Friends in deed aid Krishan in tragedy". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 28 October 2018.
  5. ^ Junior Hockey World Cup: Despite setbacks, goalkeeper Krishan Pathak keeps faith
  6. ^ "Fit-again PR Sreejesh named in India squad for New Zealand tour". India Today. 8 January 2018. Retrieved 28 October 2018.
  7. ^ Jal, Pratyush Raj (5 August 2021). "Tokyo Olympics: 9 players from India's bronze-medal winning hockey team from Jalandhar's Surjit Academy". India Today. Retrieved 7 August 2021.
  8. ^ "Asian Games Results". 2022 Asian Games, Hangzhou. Archived from the original on 8 October 2023. Retrieved 6 October 2023.
  9. ^ "Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports". pib.gov.in. Retrieved 9 January 2024.
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