Leslie Claudius
Leslie Claudius was born in Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, Chhattisgarh, India on March 25th, 1927 and is the Olympic Field Hockey Player. At the age of 85, Leslie Claudius biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Claudius was initially interested in football and as an accomplished player, he got a chance to play for the Bengal and Nagpur Railway. But, his talent in field hockey was spotted by Dickie Carr, who was a part of the Indian team that won the gold medal at the 1936 Olympics. Claudius was then inducted into the Bengal and Nagpur Railway hockey team that Carr was a part of. The team finished second in the Beighton Cup and Claudius quit football for hockey.
Claudius was a member of India's generation of hockey that won the Olympic gold in 1948, 1952 and 1956 and silver in 1960. He was the first hockey player to have competed in four Olympics and also the first to earn a hundred international caps. He captained the Indian team for the first team in 1959, with Dhyan Chand, often considered India's greatest hockey player ever as the coach, and led them to the second-place finish at the 1960 Olympics in Rome.
Claudius was appointed as the manager of the Indian team in 1978 for the Bangkok Asian Games.
- In 1971 he was awarded the Padma Shri.
- Mention in the Guinness Book of World Records along with Udham Singh for having won the most number of Olympic medals in field hockey.
- In 2011 The West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee presented the Bharat Gaurav award instituted by East Bengal Club to Leslie Claudius.
- For the 2012 Olympics, the Bushey tube station was renamed after Claudius in the special "Olympic Legends Map". He was one of six all-time hockey greats who were honored in this manner.
- In 2012 he was awarded The Banga Bibhushan.
- A road in Maidan was named after him as Leslie Claudius Sarani in 2015.