Indian hockey stalwart and member of the gold medal winning 1975 World Cup team, World Cup winner and Olympics medallist Varinder Singh passed away in Jalandhar.

• He was 75. Singh was part of the gold medal-winning Indian team at the 1975 men’s Hockey World Cup in Kuala Lumpur.
• Singh was also part of the bronze medal-winning team at the 1972 Munich Olympics and silver medal at 1973 World Cup in Amsterdam. In 2007, Varinder was conferred with the prestigious Dhyan Chand Lifetime Achievement Award.