Sansarpur | |
|---|---|
Village | |
  Sansarpur Location in Punjab, India  Sansarpur Sansarpur (India) | |
| Coordinates: 31°16′15″N75°36′19″E / 31.2707°N 75.6052°E | |
| Country |  India |
| State | Punjab |
| District | Jalandhar |
| Government | |
| • Type | Municipal corporation |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Total | 4,657 |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Punjabi |
| Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
Sansarpur is a village in Jalandhar district in the Indian state of Punjab.
As of 2001 [update] India census, [1] Sansarpur had a population of 4061. Males constitute 51% of the population and females 49%. Sansarpur has an average literacy rate of 75%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 79%, and female literacy is 71%. In Sansarpur, 11% of the population is under 6 years of age.
Among all the Indian villages, Sansarpur has produced the largest number of Olympians for the country. The village in its heyday produced 14 Hockey Olympic players, who represented India, Kenya and Canada at the Olympics. [2] In one particular Olympics, 7 players from Sansarpur represented their respective countries. 5 from India and 2 from Kenya. In present-day Sansarpur though due to the lack of support from the Indian government and lack of facilities like astro turf, the standard of Hockey players emerging from this village is falling.
The village has given more than 306 international and national level hockey players to India out of which more than 200 belong to one family of the village. [3] [4] Several of the India's notable field hockey players who hail from or trace their family origins from Sansarpur are: [2] [5]
Bindi Kullar, Olympian (2000, 2008)
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Bindi Singh Kullar is a Canadian field hockey player, who played his first international senior tournament for the Men's National Team in 1996. His father, Pritpal Singh Kullar who hailed from Sansarpur village in Punjab, was also a field hockey player and went on to represent Canada in 1978.
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Udham Singh Kular was an Indian Hockey Player from Sansarpur, Jalandhar, Punjab, India. He played in 1952 Summer Olympics Helsinki, 1956 Summer Olympics Melbourne, 1960 Summer Olympics Rome and 1964 Summer Olympics Tokyo. He shares the distinction of being one of only two Indian players to win four Olympic medals, the other being Leslie Claudius. He scored 14 goals from total of 14 Olympic matches
Darshan Singh Kular is a former Indian field hockey player who now lives in Telford, United Kingdom. In 1961, he played for India in the international hockey tournament at Ahemdabad and scored 22 goals. In the semi-final, he scored a double hat-trick against Holland. He was part of the Indian Hockey team that won the gold medal in the 1964 Summer Olympics at Tokyo, Japan.
Gurdev Singh Kular was Indian field hockey player, originally from Sansarpur. He was part of the Indian field hockey team at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, which won the gold medal. He was also a member of the field hockey team for the 1958 Tokyo and 1962 Jakarta Asian Games, captaining the team in the latter competition. He was also the captain of the gold-medallist Punjab team in the national hockey championship in Bhopal same year. In 1964, he led a team tour to Afghanistan as captain. Singh died in Leeds, England on 8 February 2024, at the age of 90.
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Kular may refer to: