![]() Rohidas in 2017 | |||
Personal information | |||
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Born | Saunamara, Sundergarh, Odisha, India | 10 May 1993||
Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in) [1] | ||
Playing position | Defender | ||
Senior career | |||
Years | Team | ||
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board | |||
Railways | |||
Hockey Association of Odisha | |||
2024– | Tamil Nadu Dragons | ||
National team | |||
Years | Team | Caps | Goals |
2013 | India U21 | 22 | (4) |
2013– | India | 223 | (32) |
Medal record |
Amit Rohidas (born 10 May 1993) is an Indian field hockey player who plays as a defender. [2] He also served as the vice-captain of the Indian national team. He was a part of the Indian squad that won bronze medals at the 2020 and 2024 Olympics and gold medal at the 2022 Asian Games. [3]
Rohidas was born on 10 May 1993 in Saunamara village of Sundergarh district.[ citation needed ] He started playing hockey in his village and joined the Panposh Sports Hostel in Rourkela in 2004.[ citation needed ]
He was selected in the national junior team in 2009. [4] Rohidas was selected in the senior squad for the 2013 Asia Cup in Ipoh where the Indian team won the silver medal. He made a comeback to the Indian side in 2017. Rohidas is the tenth international and sixth men's hockey player to play in the Olympics from Odisha and also the first non-tribal hockey Olympian from Odisha. [5] [6]
Rohidas is on the men's hockey team for India for the Paris 2024 Olympics. During the quarter-finals match against Great Britain, he received a red card for swinging his hockey stick into Will Calnan's face. [7] Hockey India lodged an appeal on the grounds that Rohidas did not intend to hit Calnan with his stick. [8]