Who Was Gurbax Singh Grewal? India’s 1968 Olympic Bronze Medallist Hockey Legend Passes Away at 84
2 min readApr 25, 2026 02:35 PM IST Former India hockey player and an Olympics bronze medallist Gurbax Singh Grewal passed away following a heart attack in Zirakpur on Friday. He was 84. Grewal was a member of the Indian team that secured a bronze medal at the Mexico City Olympics in 1968. Hockey India (HI) announced his demise in a statement on Saturday, expressing grief over the loss. “Hockey India on Saturday expresses profound grief on the passing of former Indian Men’s Hockey Team player and Olympian Gurbax Singh Grewal, who passed away at the age of 84. A member of India’s Bronze medal-winning team at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, Gurbax Singh Grewal leaves behind a rich legacy as a player, mentor, and administrator,” the statement read. He played alongside his brother Balbir Singh Grewal, marking the first time in Indian hockey history that two real brothers represented the country together at the same Olympic Games. Born on April 1, 1942, in Lyallpur, Punjab Province of British India (now in Pakistan), Grewal moved …









