Sardar Gurdev Singh Kullar (born 12 August 1933) is a former India

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n field hockey player, originally from Sansarpur

Sansarpur

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, who now lives with his family in Leeds

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, England

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. He was part of the Indian field hockey team at the 1956 Summer Olympics

1956 Summer Olympics

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 in Melbourne

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, which won the gold medal. He was also a member of the field hockey team for the 1958 Tokyo and 1962 Jakarta Asian Games, the latter of which he was captain for. 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.