Rani Rampal

Shahabad Markanda, Kurukshetra, Haryana

Field HockeyCaptain Team IndiaOlympic Hockey

Biography & Cultural Legacy

Rani Rampal (born 4 December 1994 in Shahabad Markanda, Kurukshetra, Haryana) rose from extreme poverty as the daughter of a cart-puller to captain India's national women's hockey team. Trained at the Shahabad Hockey Academy under Baldev Singh, she made her international debut at age 14 and captained India to a memorable fourth-place finish at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. She became the first hockey player globally to win World Games Athlete of the Year.

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