Joseph Deville Thomas Galibardy (10 January 1915 – 17 May 2011) was an Indian

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player who competed in the

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. In 1936 he was a member of the Indian field hockey team, which won the gold medal. He played five matches as halfback.

Career

Galibardy was born in

Madras Chennai, also known as Madras ( its official name until 1996), is the capital and largest city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost state of India. It is located on the Coromandel Coast of the Bay of Bengal. According to the 2011 Indian ce ...

and received his school education from

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in India. He visited his alma-mater, when Goethals celebrated its

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in the year 2007 at the age of 93. Goethals Memorial School is also the alma-mater of his teammate Cyril Michie. Galibardy moved to England in 1956 and lived in

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, London at the time of his death. He was the last surviving member of the 1936 Indian field hockey team that won the gold medal.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Galibardy, Joseph 1915 births 2011 deaths Field hockey players from Chennai Olympic field hockey players for India Field hockey players at the 1936 Summer Olympics Indian male field hockey players 20th-century Indian sportsmen Olympic gold medalists for India Anglo-Indian people Olympic medalists in field hockey Medalists at the 1936 Summer Olympics Indian emigrants to England British people of Anglo-Indian descent