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| Born | December 5, 1984 Calcutta, India | |||||||||||||||||
| Height | 175 cm (5 ft 9 in) | |||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 77 kg (170 lb) | |||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Canada | |||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Field hockey | |||||||||||||||||
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Jagdish Gill (born December 5, 1984, in Calcutta, India [1] ) is an Indian-born Canadian field hockey player, who played for the Canada national field hockey team at the 2015 Pan American Games and won a silver medal. [2]
In 2016, he was named to Canada's Olympic team. [3]
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