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Nirmal Kaur Saini (8 October 1938 – 13 June 2021) was an Indian volleyball player and captain of the India women's national volleyball team. [1] She was the wife of athlete Milkha Singh and the mother of Jeev Milkha Singh.
The India women's national volleyball team represents India in international competitions and is managed by the Volleyball Federation of India. In July 2018, Minimol Abraham was appointed as the captain of the Indian national team for the 2018 Asian Games .
She was selected to represent India at the 2010 Asian Games, her maiden Asian Games appearance and was part of the squad which finished 9th in the women's team event. [6] [7] [8] In July 2018, Minimol Abraham was appointed as the captain of the Indian national team for the 2018 Asian Games. [9] [10] [11] [12]
He met Nirmal Saini, a former captain of the Indian women's volleyball team in Ceylon in 1955; they married in 1962 [8] and had three daughters and a son, the golfer Jeev Milkha Singh. In 1999, they adopted the seven-year-old son of Havildar Bikram Singh, who had died in the Battle of Tiger Hill .
The first Indian woman to ever win an Olympic medal was Karnam Malleswari, who won a bronze medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympics in the Women's 69 kg category in Weightlifting. [1] In the 2012 London Olympics, women's boxing was featured as a sport for the first time. India was represented by five-time world champion Mary Kom who was the only ...
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JIMMY GEORGE was an Indian volleyball player and captain of the Indian national volleyball team. [1] Often dubbed the God of Indian volleyball, he is considered as one of the greatest volleyball players of all time. [2] He learned volleyball from his father. In 1979, he became the first Indian to become a professional volleyball player and ...
The group, which was founded by former University of Southern California volleyball player Victoria Garrick, names student-athlete captains on hundreds of high school and college campuses who ...