Bandu Patil

Olympic medal record
Men's field hockey
1964 Tokyo Team Competition

Bandu Patil (January 1, 1936 August 23, 1988) was an Indian hockey player. Bandu Patil represented the Indian Hockey team, which won Silver medal & Gold medal during 1960 & 1964 Olympics.

1960 Rome Olympics- Silver
1964 Tokyo Olympics- Gold
1962 Asian Games – Silver

He belongs to Belgaum. The Belgaum Cantonment had planned to rename the Khanapur road from Sanchayni Circle to Suryakant Park (Gogte circle) as Bandu Patil (He was a part of the gold medal winning Indian hockey team in the 1960s) road, but it was later found that, the same road was named after Maj.Cariappa in the military records.[1]

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