Joseph Deville Thomas Galibardy (10 January 1915 – 17 May 2011)
was an Indian
field hockey
Field hockey (or simply referred to as hockey in some countries where ice hockey is not popular) is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with 11 players in total, made up of 10 field players and a goalk ...
player who competed in the
1936 Summer Olympics
The 1936 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XI Olympiad () and officially branded as Berlin 1936, were an international multi-sport event held from 1 to 16 August 1936 in Berlin, then capital of Nazi Germany. Berlin won the bid to ...
.
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
Goethals Memorial School
Goethals Memorial School is an English-medium boarding school run by the Congregation of Christian Brothers in the town of Kurseong, Darjeeling, India. It is set in a forest 5 km (3 miles) from Kurseong between Siliguri and Darjeeling at a ...
,
Kurseong
Kurseong (, ) is a town and a municipality in Darjeeling district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is the headquarters of the Kurseong subdivision.
Located at an altitude of , Kurseong is from Darjeeling and has a pleasant climate throu ...
in India. He visited his alma-mater, when Goethals celebrated its
centenary
A centennial, or centenary in British English, is a 100th anniversary or otherwise relates to a century.
Notable events
Notable centennial events at a national or world-level include:
* Centennial Exhibition, 1876, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ...
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
Walthamstow
Walthamstow ( or ) is a town within the London Borough of Waltham Forest in east London. The town borders Chingford to the north, Snaresbrook and South Woodford to the east, Leyton and Leytonstone to the south, and Tottenham to the west. At ...
, 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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August 2007 update
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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