Gagan Ajit Singh (born 9 December 1980) is an Indian former

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player who played as a

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. He was the captain of the India national under-21 team that won the 2001 Junior World Cup. He was a member of the Indian senior national team at the 2000 Sydney and

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Biography

Gagan Ajit Singh was born on 9 December 1980 in

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, a city in the Indian

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. His father Ajit Singh was also an Olympian and played for India at the 1976 Montreal Olympics. His uncle Harmik Singh is another Olympian. Gagan Ajit was educated at the Union Academy Senior Secondary School and

Jamia Millia Islamia Jamia Millia Islamia is a Public university, public and research university located in Delhi, India. Originally established at Aligarh, United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, United Provinces (present-day Uttar Pradesh, India) during the British R ...

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. Singh trained in hockey at the Government Arts and Sports College in

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in 1995. In 1997, he was selected by New Delhi's Air India Hockey Academy to compete in the junior national tournament. Singh scored 26 goals and emerged as the tournament's top-scorer. He captained the side in 1999. Singh made his senior national debut in 1997 during a test series against

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. Singh played at the

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and the

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, with India finishing in seventh place on both occasions. Singh was the top-scorer for India with seven goals in the latter competition.

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