Sports apparel major releases rare Dhyan Chand photos

NEW DELHI: Sports apparel major Puma on Saturday released some rare photographs of Major

Dhyan Chand

from the

1936 Berlin Olympics

to commemorate his birth anniversary which is celebrated as the National Sports Day.


The country's leading sports personalities like India goalkeeper

Gurpreet Singh Sandhu

and former national women's cricket team keeper-batsman Sushma Verma paid their tributes to the legendary hockey player.

One of the photographs showed the entire hockey squad that won gold at the 1936 Olympics and a ticket stub of the gold medal match between India and Germany.