Monday, 11 April 2011

Sansarpur Mecca of Hockey

History

This village is around 300 years old. Five families at that time came to this village and descendants of them are called Kullar.

Sports

The village in its heyday produced 14 Hockey Olympic players, who reperesented India, Kenya and Canada at the Olympics. All olympians from Sansarpur.Sansarpur has the rare distinction of having produced the largest number of Olympians from India and hence is known as the "Mecca of Indian Hockey". In one particular Olympics, 7 players from Sansarpur represented their respective countries. 5 from India and 2 from Kenya. In present day, Ravipal Singh from Sansarpur is playing in Indian Hockey Team and S

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  1. I am proud of being the neighbour of sansarpur village. Moreover I got married in Mecca of hockey. During school days I too played hockey for a short period. My dad in his younger age too played our national game. My cousin had been playing with Retd. I.G. Sodhi sahib in Doaba school,jalandhar city. This Sunday I.e.on 18.06.17 defeated Pak in World hockey league semi final at London. We celebrated it. Our players proved it though mostly people like cricket. Both Govt. & media shud play their pivotal role for uplifting our national game. And moreover we people shud also support in their manners. Jai hind

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