Hagurnek Sandhu (born January 26, 1962 in Jamsher Khas, Jullandhar, Punjab

Punjab (India)

Punjab ) is a state in the northwest of the Republic of India, forming part of the larger Punjab region. The state is bordered by the Indian states of Himachal Pradesh to the east, Haryana to the south and southeast and Rajasthan to the southwest as well as the Pakistani province of Punjab to the...

, India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

) is a former field hockey

Field hockey

Field Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks...

 defender.

Sandhu participated in two consecutive Summer Olympics for Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

, starting in 1984. After having finished in tenth position in Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...

, the resident of Vancouver, British Columbia ended up in eleventh place with the Men's National Team in the Seoul Games.

At the Hockey World Cup

Hockey World Cup

The Hockey World Cup is an international field hockey competition organised by the International Hockey Federation . The tournament was started in 1971...

 in 1990 Sandhu was involved in a serious accident on the pitch, in the match between Canada and Ireland. Sandhu, the Canadian deep defender had the ball under control and was in the process of hitting to clear. When Jimmy Kirkwood

Jimmy Kirkwood

James W. Kirkwood is a former field hockey player and Irish cricketer, who was born in Northern Ireland.-Hockey:Kirkwood was a member of the golden winning British squad at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul....

 dived low from the left to tackle he got badly hit by Sandhu's follow through. Kirkwood's cheekbone was fractured and needed fifteen stitches.

International senior competitions

• 1984 – Olympic Games
  1984 Summer Olympics
  The 1984 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIII Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event held in Los Angeles, California, United States in 1984...
  
  , Los Angeles (10th)
• 1988 – Olympic Games
  1988 Summer Olympics
  The 1988 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad, were an all international multi-sport events celebrated from September 17 to October 2, 1988 in Seoul, South Korea. They were the second summer Olympic Games to be held in Asia and the first since the 1964 Summer Olympics...
  
  , Seoul (11th)
• 1990 – World Cup
  1990 Men's Hockey World Cup
  The 1990 Hockey World Cup was the seventh instalment of the Men's Hockey World Cup. It was held in Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore, Pakistan. It ran from February 12 to February 23. The Netherlands won over the the home side 3-1 in the final with Australia beating out Germany for third place in extra...
  
  , Lahore (11th)