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Remembering Olympic gold medallist late MK Kaushik – Naming Street in the memory of Moscow Olympic hockey star
A street in Ashok Vihar, New Delhi, will be named in the memory of 1980 Olympic gold medallist late MK Kaushik. A street naming ceremony will be held tomorrow (Sunday) at 11am.
Olympic champion and Dronacharya awardee coach Kaushik, 66, lost the battle to COVID this year in May.
Apart from the 1980 Moscow Olympics, Kaushik also played in two World Cups and 1982 Asia Cup in Karachi was his last International outing as a player.
Kaushik remained the chief national coach of both Indian men and women’s team. Under his coaching Indian men’s team won gold in the 1998 Asian Games. The continental games gold in the men’s hockey came after a gap of 32 years. He was also the coach of the women’s team that won bronze in the 2006 Doha Asian Games. He was awarded the Arjuna award in1998 and got the Dronacharya award in 2002.
He retired as Deputy Director from Haryana Sports Department. He was also in charge of the Madhya Pradesh Hockey Academy and later at the National Hockey Academy in New Delhi as part of Khelo India before retiring last month.
He was born in Delhi and played maximum of his domestic hockey for Bombay.